World No. 2 cement maker Holcim has secured EU antitrust approval for its €1.85 billion acquisition of German walling systems maker Xella after pledging to sell a Romanian business, the European Commission said on Friday.
The deal, announced in October last year, is part of Holcim’s diversification into the growing European refurbishment market worth around 250 billion euros a year.
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Zug, Switzerland-headquartered Holcim will divest its plant in Roma… [1101 chars]
Source: Reuters | Published: 2026-06-12T16:01:58Z
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