Lafarge: September '12
Lafarge has agreed the sale of two integrated cement works, two quarries, eight batching plants, a fly ash business and certain other downstream assets to Eagle Materials for US$446m. The two cement plants involved are those at Sugar Creek, Kansas City, in Missouri, and at Tulsa in Oklahoma. They have a combined cement capacity 1.6Mta and leaves Lafarge with nine cement plants in the United States.