The deal is deemed as the largest private equity investment in Indias cement sector. (India)  --  Signing the largest private equity investment in India’s cement sector, Baring Private Equity

(Indonesia)  --  The death toll from a tunnel collapse at PT Freeport Indonesias Grasberg mining operations rose to four Wednesday, with 13 miners rescued and more than 20 still trapped deep

(Canada)   --  Researchers at Queens Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy are working with Lafarge Canada to test using low carbon fuels including construction and demolition waste,

(NEW ULM)  --  After listening to gravel hauling concerns Tuesday, the Brown County Planning Commission added a number of Conditional Use Permit (CUP) conditions to a pair of North Star Township

(India)  --  JK Cement has announced that its net profit has fallen by 30 per cent for the quarter ended March 31 at Rs 56.19 crore.

(WINNIPEG)  --  Lafarge Canada Inc. received a 2013 Premier’s Volunteer Service Award for the company’s seven-year dedication to Norquay School.

(Memphis) -- Interstate I-240 was shut down for four hours Tuesday after a Memphis Area Transit Authority bus driver was killed in an accident with a concrete truck driver.

(Tulsa, OK.) -- Police had a hard time trying to figure out how to get three protestors out of solid cement near Wewoka and Holdenville Tuesday morning.

What’s best? Wood or cement? (Canada)  --  Should anyone be surprised that the cement industry is worried about the arrival of a competing material for building five-and six-storey

(Germany) -- Equities researchers at Deutsche Bank lifted their target price on shares of Heidelbergcement AG from €63.00 ($81.82) to €65.00 ($84.42) in a report issued on Tuesday, Analyst

(Canada)  --  Lafarge Canada Inc. is partnering with Natural Resources Canada, the Queen’s Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy and Carbon Management Canada (CMC) to develop a system

(Thailand)  --  Siam Cement Group (SCG) has signed an agreement with its Chinese counterpart CONCH for the machinery and construction process for an eco-friendly cement plant in Sukabumi, West

The employee was killed while inside a roller mill that was not de-energized. (Oklahoma)  --  A settlement between The U.S. Department of Labors Mine Safety and Health Administration and

(Lebanon)  --  The cement makers in Lebanon are benefiting from government regulation of imports which has effectively been a ban since import licenses were last granted in 2001.

Design principal Gary Haney, AIA, RIBA, will present the innovative design process behind SOMs work, including the iconic Al Hamra Tower recently completed in Kuwait City.     

(California)  --   Nearly 100 goats grazed behind the electric fence at the Granite Rock Co. Santa Cruz Sand Plant on Highway 1.

(Nigeria)  --  Siemens Energy, the Germany-based multinational engineering and electronics conglomerate, has won a contract from Edo Cement in Nigeria to supply gas turbines for its Okpella

(Argentina)  --   Argentinas government will ask Congress to approve legislation that will allow Argentines to invest their undeclared U.S. dollar savings in local bonds to finance energy

(Birmingham, Alabama)  --  Command Alkon, the leader in integrated solutions for the global construction materials industries, is pleased to announce the purchase of the Scout and Compass

(UK)  --  The UK aggregates industry continues to be unable to replenish its output with new reserves. Eight out of 10 planning regions failed to replace reserves extracted during 2012. This