Holcim Bangladesh recently appointed Rajnish Kapur as its new managing director.

Former employees at a Tasmania, Australia, plant are being offered to participate in a free asbestos screening program.

Italcementi, which started operations in Sri Lanka in 1998, is supporting Internally Displaced Persons following the end of a long civil war with aid, in cash  and in kind.

Shareholders of HeidelbergCement Ukraine removed the heads of the supervisory board, Interfax reported.

A security guard at Lafarge India was arrested for stabbing the unit vice president after being fired from his job, police said on Tuesday.

Five workers at Uganda's Tororo Cement were badly burned during a cyclone tower maintenance accident on Wednesday.

Eight people were confirmed dead and three others were hospitalized after a cement tank toppled over at a concrete plant in Wuchang, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, the local safety authority said on Thursday.

Cimpor shared holders reached a consensus on the new board composition and CEO plant after a long struggle between two key shareholder blocks backed by Lafarge versus Teixeira Duarte.  

Eagle Materials said on Monday that Mark Dendle, its CFO and EVP of finance and administration, is stepping down effective June 12.

Lafarge believes, with only hours remaining before Cimpor's general shareholder meeting on Wednesday, it will still be possible to reach consensus on the Cimpor board.