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Lafarge Cement rolls out new Point of Sale for Merchant Partners

Packed cement pallet Aggregate Industries has designed new point of sale materials for its Lafarge Cement range to help support its merchant stockists drive sales.   F ollowing 18 months...
News - 22 August 2017

Cemex leads the Caribbean

With varying levels of economic growth across the region and reliant on overseas investment and trade with the UK and USA, these are uncertain times for the Caribbean. As a new player emerges in t...
Articles - 21 August 2017

Foundation stone laid for new grinding venture

President of Ghana Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Tuesday laid the foundation stone for the construction of a new grinding factory in the port city of Tema, some 30km east of the capital city Accr...
News - 16 August 2017

Lafarge to receive Metro Vancouver's residuals as alternative raw materials

Lafarge Canada Inc and Metro Vancouver have reached a three-year agreement that will see drinking water treatment residuals from the Seymour Capilano Filtration Plant be used as a material in ceme...
News - 15 August 2017

Lafarge Africa and COREN develop Nigeria's first concrete manual

Lafarge Africa Plc is set to partner Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) in the research and development of Nigeria’s first concrete mix design manual. The concrete mi...
News - 11 August 2017

Lafarge board approves merger with Unicem, Atlas Cement

The board of directors of Lafarge Africa has approved the commencement of a merger with United Cement Company (Unicem) and Atlas Cement Co, according to a statement by the company published on the...
News - 07 August 2017

Philippine watchdog finds 'indications" of anticompetitive agreements

The Philippine Competition Commission (PCC) discovered in its ongoing full administrative investigation “indications of anticompetitive agreements” in the local cement industry, senior officials t...
News - 03 August 2017

Aggregate Industries introduces Postmix to its Lafarge Cement range

Aggregate Industries has introduced Postmix to its Lafarge Cement range of packed products, a quality-assured premixed ready-to-use formulation for fixing all types of fence posts.   Lafarge Post...
News - 25 July 2017

After the perfect storm

Sluggish cement demand and oversupply have led to slow sales and low prices in South Africa. The cement sector’s low profit margins have not deterred new entrants with state-of-the-art plants prov...
Articles - 18 July 2017

Nova Scotia approves tyre burning pilot

The Canadian province of Nova Scotia has approved a pilot project to burn tyres in the cement kilns of Lafarge Canada’s Brookfield plant. The province will pay the cement producer around CAD105...
News - 07 July 2017