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US: Construction firm PNK Group has unveiled a 111,000m² manufacturing, warehousing and distribution facility in McDonough, Georgia, that showcases its new proprietary precast building system. The system enabled PNK Group to rapidly assemble the facility from high-precision reinforced precast concrete structural frame and other standardised elements, produced at its plants in Georgia and Pennsylvania.

UK: Precast concrete market leader FP McCann Group recorded a profit of US$67.7m in 2024, up by 11% year-on-year. It overcame a drop in turnover of less than 1%, to US$536m, Insider Media News has reported.

Ukraine: Türkiye-based ONUR Group says that it has invested over US$70m in Ukraine since its invasion by Russia on 24 February 2022. Ukraine Business News has reported that the company’s upcoming US$15m, 30,000t/yr ACTU dry building mixes plant is scheduled to commence operations in June 2025. The group also invested a further US$20m in the installation of a new line at its Shchyrets reinforced concrete elements plant. It invested US$4m in the construction of its EFE ready-mix and reinforced concrete elements plants, commissioned in October 2024, and another US$4m in its Shchyrets and Zhydachiv ready-mix concrete plants. Further investments went into the group’s planed and peeled veneer and lumber subsidiary Wood Industries.

Saudi Arabia: MGB International for Industry, a subsidiary of Malaysia-based MGB, has received two orders worth US$20m from property developer Sany Alameriah for the supply and installation of precast elements for its Al Arous residential construction project near Jeddah in Mecca Province. The New Straits Times newspaper has reported that the orders cover 42,000m³ of concrete for a total of 326 housing units. Sany Alameriah expects construction to conclude within 14 months of commencement.

US: CarbonQuest has secured US$20m in funding to scale its modular CO₂ capture system. ESG Today News has reported that the funds will help the company to explore additional markets. It currently has systems deployed at six sites in New York City, where it supplies captured CO₂ to local precast concrete producers for sequestration in concrete blocks.

US: Australia-based FBR has supplied its Hadrian X robotic bricklayer for the construction of homes in Charlotte County, Florida. Local press has reported that FBR partner CRH Ventures supplied concrete blocks for the project. Hadrian X is able to lay 300 blocks per hour.

FBR’s Hadrian X previously built nine houses in Charlotte County and Lee County in 2024.

UK: Akela Group subsidiary Akela Ground Engineering has appointed John Ward as its Precast Concrete Manager to support an expansion of the Glasgow, Scotland-based company’s production footprint into England. Ward will be based between Akela Ground Engineering’s offices in Glasgow and Swadlincote, England, and will have a special focus on sourcing a manufacturing base for the company’s ABeam precast concrete elements, currently produced in Glasgow.

The Scotsman newspaper has reported that Ward brings over 35 years of managerial experience, including at Green Piling, Centrum Pile, Aarsleff Ground Engineering UK and DEL Piling.

Australia: Permacast Future Industries, a joint venture of nickel slag-based cement developer Suvo Strategic Minerals and precast concrete producer Permacast, has signed a binding two-year memorandum of understanding (MOU) to supply its reduced-CO₂ concrete to wind farm developer Wind With Purpose (WWP). WWP will explore the use of the concrete in wind turbine foundations and towers. The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper has reported that WWP’s upcoming wind farms in Western Australia require 500 turbines, each using 1000m³ of concrete.

North America: The Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute announced the winners of its 2025 Design Awards for supply of concrete to challenging projects in the past year, FCP News has reported. Dukane Precast’s 43 Green Phase 1 supply project in Chicago, Illinois, won the All-Precast Concrete Solution Award. Unistress’ Teterboro ATCT supply project in Teterboro, New Jersey, won the Building Information Modelling Award. GATE Precast’s Baptist Hospital Campus supply project in Pensacola, Florida, won the Sustainable Design Award.

UAE: MIG Holding has inaugurated its 700,000t/yr Jebel Ali precast concrete plant in Dubai, in collaboration with National Industries Park. Trade Arabia News has reported that the plant will help to accelerate development initiatives under the UAE’s Operation 300Bn industrial strategy.