Having enjoyed two years of considerable sales growth (real growth rate in 2010: +13%, in 2011: +17%), the German manufacturers of machinery and facilities again expect a sales surplus in 2012,...
For a special type of structure, an additional Liebherr mixing plant at WEC-Turmbau in Magdeburg (Germany) produces quality concrete for prefabricated tower elements in wind energy systems. The idea...
The CRH Group recently published its full year results for 2011. Reported sales revenue for the first half increased by 7%; on a like-for-like basis, excluding the impact of acquisitions, divestments...
The Lafarge Group finished 2011 with a sales volume amounting to 15.3 million euros. Despite an increase in sales of 3 percent, the overall operating income declined by 9 percent. The net income is...
The Competition Commission has decided provisionally that the proposed UK joint venture between Anglo American plc and Lafarge SA could damage competition in certain markets for construction...
With immediate effect, or as existing contracts permit, BASF is increasing its European sales prices for ethanolamines (EOA) as follows:
Monoethanolamine (MEOA) + 70 EUR/mt
Diethanolamine (DEOA) + 90...
At the close of entries on February 17th, more than 300 projects ideas had been registered to compete for the first Quarry Life Award launched by HeidelbergCement and its national companies. Students...
The Board of the international building materials group CRH on Wednesday, 22nd February 2012, appointed Mr. Nicky Hartery as Chairman Designate, to succeed the present Chairman, Mr. Kieran McGowan....
The GaLaBau exhibition is back again in 2012. From 12 to 15 September, the Nuremberg Exhibition Center will turn into a huge marketplace catering to the interests of professionals from the green...
What do you expect of this year‘s BetonTage?
The BetonTage congress held in Ulm has been developing gradually to an outright top event of the concrete industry. For me, an intensive exchange with...