
U.S. Concrete completes Polaris acquisition
U.S. Concrete has completed its acquisition of Polaris Materials Corp., continuing its upward integration into the aggregates sector.
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U.S. Concrete has completed its acquisition of Polaris Materials Corp., continuing its upward integration into the aggregates sector.

The UK’s largest independent building materials supplier, Breedon Group, has announced a “solid performance” in the first ten months of the year.

CRH has reported continued growth in earnings over the first nine months of the year, despite weather-related disruption in the US and challenging market conditions in the Philippines.

CRH continues its North American spending spree with the acquisition of a Floridian building materials operation from Votorantim Cimentos North America and Anderson Columbia.

HeidelbergCement has signed a three-year collaboration agreement with the European Molecular Biology Laboratory to boost research into carbon emissions reduction, avoidance, and recovery.

Holcim México, a member of LafargeHolcim Group, has been ranked among the top Mexican companies for anti-corruption practices by Mexico’s leading business magazine.

Australian building materials company, Adelaide Brighton, is to supply construction materials – including cement – to the first major concrete road project in South Australia.

The Italian Antitrust Authority has approved the sale of Cementir Italia to HeidelbergCement Group subsidiary, Italcementi.

Weak performance in Brazil helped to drag Votorantim’s earnings down year-on-year in 3Q17, despite positive results from elsewhere.

Lafarge Africa Plc has partnered with Canaancity Consortium, which is developing a number of estates in Nigeria, to offer construction-related health and safety training.

Kansas-based materials handling specialist, Vortex, is celebrating four decades of business, after its founding by Loren Neil Paterson and Lee Young in 1977.

GCP Applied Technologies, a leading provider of construction products technologies, has launched two new cement additives.