Source: Associated Builders & Contractors, Washington, D.C.
Design and construction industry leaders, along with building owners and operators, have pledged to promote resilience in contemporary planning, building materials, project specifications and operational techniques as the solution to making the nation’s aging infrastructure more safe and secure.
Read MoreLafarge SA and Holcim Ltd. officials see financial benefits and integration possibilities in their proposed “merger of equals,” netting LafargeHolcim—present in 90 countries with $44 billion in sales; 470 million and 384 million tons of cement and aggregate shipments, respectively; plus, 90 million yd. of ready mixed production. The strategy they outlined in Zurich and Paris last month leads to a mid-2015 1:1 share exchange, the merged business operating under executives and directors drawn equally from both companies.
Read MoreSources: Lafarge North America, Chicago; CP staff
Lafarge North America has attained LEED for Commercial Interiors Gold certification at its recently occupied Chicago headquarters, the rating partly reflecting specification of internally procured product: reception area backdrop of Elburn, Ill.-quarried limestone, plus tile and countertops of Ductal ultra-high performance concrete.
Read MoreSources: Lafarge North America Inc., Reston, Va.; CP staff
The Lafarge North America board has appointed John Stull president and chief executive officer for aggregate, cement and concrete operations in the United States, bringing all lines under a single leader.
Read MoreSource: Lafarge Group, Paris
Lafarge Group has appointed as senior leaders for Canada and U.S.-bordering businesses Bob Cartmel, six Eastern Provinces, and René Thibault, four Western Provinces, three Territories, plus the Dakotas and the Pacific Northwest. Based in Toronto and Calgary, respectively, they are responsible for all operational, marketing and functional elements of aggregate, asphalt, cement, concrete (ready-mix, pipe and precast), and construction and paving operations.
Read MoreSources: United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, Atlanta; CP staff
By Don Marsh
After nearly 30 months, plaintiffs and defendants appear to have closed a case alleging a price-fixing and market allocation conspiracy among four Sunshine State producers with integrated cement and ready mixed operations. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals filings throughout February cite a settlement of undisclosed terms; they culminated in an order granting plaintiffs’ withdrawal of a petition that could have continued proceedings.
Read MorePlaintiffs alleging a price-fixing and market-allocation conspiracy among four major Florida ready mixed producers began the new year with a court order detouring the hospitable path they sought to injunctive relief and damages.
Read MoreSources: U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, Miami; CP staff
By Don Marsh
An early-January ruling stands to significantly increase costs and complicate litigation burdens for In Re Florida Cement and Concrete Antitrust Litigation plaintiffs. Greatly streamlined from initial claims of a five-year scope and 10-defendant pool, the two-year-old case alleges a 2008–2009 concrete price-fixing conspiracy among Cemex Inc., Florida Rock Industries, VCNA Prestige Ready-Mix Florida Inc., and Tarmac America LLC.
Read MoreU.S. District Court Judge Cecilia Altonaga has ordered “In Re Florida Cement and Concrete Antitrust Litigation” plaintiffs to amend consolidated complaints by centering on four defendants and a timeframe from mid-2008 forward.
Read MoreDefense attorneys in In Re Florida Cement and Concrete Antitrust Litigation have moved to dismiss the prospective class-action case
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