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Lafarge Lafarge of France is to sell its roofing business to PAI Partners for £1.3bn. 05-Dec-2006 Lafarge is to invest about £2m at its Cauldon cement works in Staffordshire by the end of next year, including new packing and storage facilities. 31-Oct-2006 Lafarge is to build a plasterboard factory next to the Ferrybridge power station near Castleford. 27-Mar-2006 Lafarge is planning to develop an ecological leisure complex at the former Magheramorne quarry in Northern Ireland, and proposals include a mountain biking centre, a museum, a heritage steam railway and up to 450 eco-friendly houses. 07-Dec-2005 Lafarge has acquired Port Land Cement, the Sittingbourne-based cement importer, for undisclosed terms. 03-Nov-2005 Lafarge has acquired Castle Cement's import terminal in West Thurrock, Essex, for undisclosed terms. 16-Jun-2005 Lafarge is to build a new £31m plasterboard factory in Nottinghamshire by early 2007. 02-Mar-2005 Lafarge is to invest £15m in the expansion of its cement factory at Hope in Derbyshire over the next five years. 17-Feb-2005 Lafarge has acquired the readymix operations of Riskend Aggregates, which includes four plants in Glasgow and a new site in Edinburgh. 01-Dec-2004 Lafarge UK has reached agreement with Northumbrian Water to pioneer the use of sewage treatment sludge as a fuel for its cement works in Staffordshire. 05-May-2004 Lafarge Aggregates has won government approval to proceed with plans to build a waste recycling plant at Harrycroft Quarry near Rotherham. 28-Apr-2003 Lafarge has acquired Premier Readymix Concrete of Staffordshire for undisclosed terms. 12-Feb-2003 Lafarge Aggregates is to relocate up to 400 staff to a new headquarters at the Watermead Business Park near Leicester by spring 2003. 09-Dec-2002 Lafarge is closing its sales office in Worksop, and up to 95 jobs will be relocated to its main office at Syston in Leicestershire. 22-Oct-2002 Lafarge Gyvlon has acquired the remaining 51% of Isocrete Gyvlon from Sandbach-based Flowcrete, and will invest in the expansion of the company's synthetic anhydrite binder production and distribution. 07-May-2002 Lafarge Cement UK and Geodur International of Switzerland are forming a joint venture called Glacier ARM to supply environmentally-friendly cement-making materials, based at the Cauldon works near Ashbourne. 30-Apr-2002 Lafarge has won a £2.3m government grant to develop material handling facilities by the Aire and Calder canal in Yorkshire, which will enable materials to be transported from its Besthorpe quarry and Wakefield distribution centre. 29-Mar-2001 Blue Circle Industries, the cement maker, is to be acquired by Lafarge of France for £3.1bn, which will lead to about 500 job losses at Blue Circle's UK headquarters and at research centres in Greenhithe and France. 09-Jan-2001 Lafarge of France has won European Commission approval for its £3.4bn bid for Blue Circle, but the UK cement maker is still trying to resist the deal. 11-Apr-2000 Blue Circle has received a £3.4bn takeover approach from Lafarge of France, as part of an ongoing consolidation in the UK building materials sector. 01-Feb-2000 Lafarge Redland Aggregates is planning to build a new factory to produce bitumen-coated road surface material at the former Chelmsford Royal Mail depot. 24-Feb-1999 Blue Circle Industries has sold its South African cement business to Lafarge of France for $240m. 22-Sep-1998 RMC is selling a number of cement facilities in Germany to Lafarge of France for £71m. 18-Aug-1998 The government is asking the European Commission to refer to the OFT the takeover of Redland by Lafarge, as it believes there are competition concerns in the market for ready-mixed concrete. 28-Nov-1997 Redland has agreed terms for a £1.8bn takeover by Lafarge, the French building materials company, having decided that a complete sale would be preferable to selling parts of the business following the decline in the UK stockmarket. 26-Nov-1997 Redland has said it would consider a full break-up of the group in order to improve value for shareholders, as it continues to fend off a £1.67bn hostile bid from Lafarge of France. 01-Nov-1997 Lafarge of France has launched a £1.67bn hostile takeover bid for Redland, a move which would create the world's largest aggregates group. 14-Oct-1997 Lafarge of France is to buy Ennemix, the quarry company, following a £8.8m recommended bid. 05-Jul-1996 The information above comes from the UK Activity Report Copyright UK Business Park 1995-2007