Lafarge UK hands supply contract to Wincanton
Wincanton is to deliver more than 2 million t of bagged and bulk cement for Lafarge Cement UK.
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Wincanton is to deliver more than 2 million t of bagged and bulk cement for Lafarge Cement UK.
Lafarge Cement has scooped two marketing awards within days of one another, the ‘Best Brand Campaign’ prize at the B2B Marketing Awards and ‘Best In House Marketing Team’ at the Construction Marketing Awards.
“A landmark for the cement industry” was how Dr Pal Chana, Executive Director of the Mineral Products Association (MPA), described the industry’s performance against its Environment Agency agreed Sector Plan targets for 2010.
Construction materials supplier Hanson is restructuring its concrete, asphalt and contracting business.
Paul Maxwell-Cook looks at the developments in Turkmenistan over the last 20 years and the expectations for the future. This article is an abridged version of the full article, which appeared in the December 2011 issue of World Cement.
Lafarge’s product line-based organisation is to be replaced with a country-based organisation. This will include the removal of a layer of management and the resulting reorganisation of the Executive Committee.
IHS has lowered the outlook for global construction spending next year to 4.9%, due to economic conditions in the US and Eurozone.
Lafarge Aggregates & Concrete UK (LACUK) has been ranked 7th in the league table of the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme.
Danish engineering group FLSmidth & Co A/S cut its full-year 2011 expectation for cement capacity growth as activity in India stalled and third-quarter profits fell in line with forecast.
Holcim, the world's second largest cement maker, increased its sales volumes for cement, despite price hikes failing to offset rising energy costs and the strong Swiss franc.
CRH plc, the international building materials group, has issued its Interim Management Statement demonstrating slight increase in sales growth.
Italian cement giant Italcementi has produced its third quarter results, reflecting the sale of its assets in Turkey earlier this year.