RAVENA — LaFarge Cement is embarking on a plan to modernize ... changed from a wet-process to a dry-process plant and that, as a result, the amount of fuel used would be cut in half.

Cemex of Mexico and Heidelberg Cement of Germany. Lafarge has a greater presence in North American and European markets, while Holcim has a far larger reach in the faster growing markets of Asia ...

LONDON (MarketWatch) -- French construction firm Lafarge said Monday it has agreed to buy Orascom Cement for almost $13 billion, in a deal that's expected to significantly raise its exposure to ...

Cement companies Lafarge SA of France and Holcim Ltd. of Switzerland—the world's top two players—said on Friday they were in advanced merger talks that they envisioned as a "merger of equals." ...

The Senate on Thursday called for transparency in the ongoing negotiations to sell Lafarge Cement Plc to Chinese ... to ensure that the “divestment process prioritises national security and ...

Holcim Ltd. and Lafarge SA are mixing up the cement industry. On Monday, the respective Swiss and French companies unveiled merger plans that would create a construction-materials giant with ...

It has remained unclear when the trial would begin regarding the case over the French cement giant Lafarge's alleged link to the Daesh/ISIS terror group. Despite the ...

VALLEY CITY, N.D.-Lafarge North America, a cement, aggregate and concrete business, has signed a deal to build a cement transloading facility in Williston. The storage facility and terminal on a ...

Swiss cement firm Holcim is to buy French rival Lafarge to create the world's biggest cement maker with combined sales of 32bn euros (£26.5bn; $44bn). Under the terms of the deal, Lafarge ...

The world's two largest cement makers are in advanced talks to merge into a company that would have a stock market value of more than $30bn euros (£25bn). A deal between France's Lafarge and the ...

Rio Tinto (ASX, LON: RIO) joined forces with Lafarge Canada ... to reuse waste from the aluminium smelting process to make cement. In a press release, the companies said that they have developed ...

"Lafarge's support for ISIS and ANF ran deep. It operated a lucrative cement plant in northern Syria, and it decided that bribing Syrian terrorists offered the best way to protect its profits from ...