Cyprus: Competition authorities have issued fines on ready-mix concrete producers worth €1.94m for collusion between 2010 and 2014. The Commission for the Protection of Competition found that the producers had shared sensitive information, leading to price fixing. Some had also divided clients among themselves and shared information regarding a tender for a passenger terminal at the port of Limassol.

Among those fined, Athinodorou & Poullas Super Beton received a fine of €503,000, while K. Kithreotis Skyrodema received a fine of €409,000, the Cyprus Mail newspaper has reported.

US: T&T Precast held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new, US$2m Colleton County precast concrete plant in Georgia on 21 November 2025. WSAV News has reported that the plant will produce custom elements for underground infrastructure and employ 11 people.

Norway: A team at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) has shown the inadequacy of current methods for detecting pyrrhotite in aggregates used in concrete production. Pyrrhotite is sensitive to sulphate attack, causing degradation in concrete. However, current quality assurance methods, such as differential thermal analysis, optical microscopy and total sulphur measurement, fail to distinguish between pyrrhotite polytypes and concentrations. Concluding its paper published in the Construction and Building Materials Journal, the team instead recommended thermomagnetic analysis as a standard method. This measures magnetic susceptibility changes across heating cycles to identify and quantify pyrrhotite polytypes based on their magnetic transitions.

Malaysia: YTL Cement has received environmental product declarations (EPDs) covering products across its cement and concrete product ranges. An EPD is a third party-verified disclosure of a product’s impact throughout its full life cycle in line with international standards. The certification covers the company’s Grade 35 and Grade 40 ECOConcrete concretes.