
Lafarge US volunteers take part in river cleanup project
Employees from the Lafarge US corporate office and its West Aggregates operations volunteered for a Living Lands and Waters river cleanup in Channahon.
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Employees from the Lafarge US corporate office and its West Aggregates operations volunteered for a Living Lands and Waters river cleanup in Channahon.

New £200 million fund to create 10 housing zones on brownfield land welcomed by Britpave.

The Dangote Foundation has invested over N152 million in the establishment of a National Ebola Emergency Operations Centre to aid the country’s response to the virus.

China’s CNBM has carried out its first upgrade project on a clinker line overseas, helping Oman Cement Company to increase the capacity of its production line 1, which is located southwest of Muscat.

Fauji Cement has reported its results for the full year ending 30 June 2014.

MIT’s CSHub has released two studies examining the life cycle assessment (LCA) of concrete pavements and buildings, and a third assessment on life-cycling costing for streets and highways.

Trinidad Cement Limited has suspended its CEO Rollin Bertrand and appointed one of the Cemex representatives on the board as acting CEO in his place.

Private equity firm Dundee Sarea has purchased a majority stake in Italy’s Redecam Group S.r.l. in partnership with the company’s founder and chairman, Guiseppe Bettoni.

FLSmidth has won a contract from Nyumba Ya Akiba SARL to supply a complete package for a greenfield cement plant in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

According to ASOCEM, sales of cement on Peru’s national market reached 845 907 t in July 2014.

Production in construction declined by 0.7% m/m and 2.3% y/y in the euro area and by 0.3% m/m and 0.5% y/y in the EU28 in June.

The Lafarge Canada Inc. plant in Exshaw, Alberta, has achieved its targeted reductions in dust, SO2 and NOx emissions.