US: Investment firm CQL Capital has acquired Pennsylvania-based Erie Strayer, a producer of concrete batching plants and equipment for ready-mix and paving contractors. Private Equity Professional News has reported that Brookside Capital Partners, Everside Capital Partners, Star Mountain Capital, Tecum Capital and UMB Private Investments also co-invested.

Erie Strayer's products include the Heavy-Duty Tilt Drum Mixer and the Liberty Series Concrete Batching Control System. The producer also supplies replacement parts and on-site servicing.

US: Amrize has completed its acquisition of ready-mix concrete and aggregates producer PB Materials Holdings. The acquisition adds 26 sites in Amrize’s South US region. PB Materials recorded sales worth US$180m in 2025, and Amrize expects the deal to be earnings and cash accretive in 2026.

Amrize chair and CEO Jan Jenisch said "We are excited to be expanding our aggregates business in the high-growth West Texas region. This acquisition demonstrates our strategy in action as we continue to invest for growth in North America's most attractive markets. With a strong pipeline and an experienced team in place, we will continue to pursue value-accretive mergers and acquisitions."

Australia: Boral has launched new binary- and triple-blend concrete mixes incorporating calcined clay as a supplementary cementitious material (SCM). The mixes offer comparable workability to ‘traditional’ reduced-CO₂ concrete. The launch builds on collaborations with SmartCrete, technology developer Calix and the University of Technology Sydney between 2020 and 2024.

Separately, Quarry Magazine has reported that Boral has also completed demonstrations at scale to show that crushed recycled concrete can absorb captured CO₂. The producer has developed novel concrete mixes using the resulting recycled recarbonated aggregates.

Ireland: Breedon Group has broken ground at its new Aghamore aggregates quarry in County Sligo, after obtaining planning permission. Builders’ Merchant News has reported that the quarry is the company’s tenth in the country, and will support its supply of aggregates, concrete blocks and ready-mix concrete in North West Ireland.