#Concrete

Labour minister Yiannis Panayiotou never ceases to amaze with his economic thinking. On Tuesday morning, speaking on CyBC radio, he described the increases of about five per cent in the ...

Financial repercussions from the ongoing concrete workers’ strike are growing exponentially while the shortage of material has far-reaching and unforeseen effects, the director general of the Cyprus chamber of commerce (...

Cement workers protested outside the labour ministry on Friday over a prolonged dispute that has brought the construction industry to a halt. Workers have been on strike for two weeks ...

The mediation proposal from the labour ministry regarding the collective agreement in the ready-mix concrete sector is still being evaluated, general secretary of trade union Sek Andreas Matsis said on ...

Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou on Wednesday night praised both workers and employers in the concrete sector for agreeing to the negotiation framework he has devised with the aim of bringing ...

Trade unions Sek, Peo, and Deok expressed their dissatisfaction on Tuesday over what they called an “unfortunate intervention” by Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou into the unresolved labour dispute in the ...

The ready mixed concrete producers’ association will propose a full lifting of its ongoing strike at its general assembly on Monday as the industry-wide strike by unions enters its sixth ...

Seven men, some chunks of concrete, and wooden bats were found by police in a car in Paphos in the early hours of the morning. Police stopped the car at ...

Politicians love to talk about sustainable development, protection of the environment, the green transition, a sustainable tourism model and other such fashionable ideas that sound good. As with most things, ...

By Aliakbar Gholampour Building materials and construction generate about 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Much of these emissions are due to the environmentally unfriendly process of producing ordinary Portland cement, ...