Romania: Holcim Romania has invested €700,000 to upgrade its Stancesti aggregates plant in Prahova County. The investment included €450,000 towards a water recirculation and purification plant. Following the completion of works, the Stancesti plant now draws 80% less water.
Point Ready Mix trucks to help raise suicide awareness
US: Illinois-based Point Ready Mix will launch new branding for its concrete mixer trucks featuring the 988 Lifeline phone number and the suicide prevention slogan You Matter Big Time!! from April 2025. The message jointly targets workers at building sites and the general public, especially those using main roads.
Local press has reported that Point Ready Mix President David LaPointe said "Our trucks are travelling locally all the time. In a way, we’re interacting with everybody driving through traffic. There could be a person sitting at a stoplight who needs to see it." He continued “The construction industry has been hit especially hard by this dilemma. They’re finding it’s a combination of long, unpredictable hours and time away from home. There are many struggles in construction. Most families know somebody [affected by suicide]."
ONUR Group invests over US$70m in Ukraine
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.
MGB International for Industry wins US$20m precast orders for housing project
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.
