ready-mix

[ClickPress, Wed Jul 10 2019] Ready-mix concrete has often been preferred over on-site concrete mixing for its precision and lowered work site confusion.

CEMEX SAB de CV (NYSE:CX) revealed on Tuesday the signing of the final agreement with GP Gunter Papenburg AG, to sell the company's aggregates and ready-mix assets in Germany for about EUR87m.

In addition to being a leading supplier of aggregates in the market, Sweetman's Concrete Materials business operates three asphalt plants and seven ready-mix plants, with a fleet of 65 ready-mix trucks to serve the area.

The company is using German sustainability software and consulting company Thinkstep's Gabi EPD solution to provide the analysis for their ready-mix concrete.Benefits of the EPD will be the ability to assess the environmental performance of ready-mix concrete with in-depthLife Cycle Analysis (LCA), provide a basis for sustainability certification, and create Life Cycle Data Sets which will be posted on recognised LCA databases worldwide.

He added, "Our underlying demand trends continue to be positive reflecting our balanced exposure to high growth markets as evidenced by year over year and sequential increases in our ready-mix backlog."

The EAD's Eltezam (means aACAycompliance' in Arabic) campaign will not only raise their awareness of limiting Particulate Matter release but is also designed to gain the compliance of various industrial sectors, beginning with the Ready-Mix sector.

Westroc, based in Pleasant Grove, Utah, operates two aggregates sites and seven ready-mix concrete plants along the Wasatch Front.

With the release of data for January 2013, the Producer Price Index (PPI) program introduced new regional detail for Ready-mix concrete.

Abdullah Ridwan, chairman of the committee for contractors and ready-mix concrete at the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry, urged the authorities to intervene and make available an adequate quantity of cement in the local market to contain the soaring prices.

Subsequently, prices of ready-mix concrete shot up 30 percent in Jeddah and other parts of the western region.

It fears the reduction in competition could pave the way for price hikes, potentially forcing independent ready-mix concrete suppliers to close.

MUSCAT: Oman Portuguese Cement Products (OPCP), a leading producer of ready-mix, pre-cast concrete blocks and interlock paving tiles, is all set to expand its read-mix concrete capacity.

Cemex, S.A.de C.V, a global producer and marketer of cement and ready-mix products announced the recommended acquisition of RMC Group, for US$4.1 billion in cash.

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