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The Council of the British Precast Concrete Federation have set targets for 14 sustainability indicators to be achieved by the
sector by 2012. www.britishprecast.org • • • The 2009 British Precast Sustainability Champion award has been won by Lafarge Cement UK with runner up J&P Building Systems. The award goes to the Associate member who has done the most in the last
12 months to assist the sustainability programme of the UK precast concrete industry. www.britishprecast.org • • • bauma 2010: record number of exhibitors (with high proportion of international producers) since the launch of the...

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