Bunte to develop new plant

New crushing and screening equipment valued at €189million is to be acquired to improve operations at XXI Vek Development’s quarry at Bratsky in Karelia, Russia. The investment will take capacity up to 4.5million m3 per year. The quarry operator is currently holding a closed tender for the scheme.

Austria-based quarry operator Bernegger has announced that it is to invest €10million during 2010 in upgrading its equipment and improving operations in Austria. Around €4.5million of the total is expected to be spent on a new sand and gravel plant and concrete plant at Spital to help meet the demands from the Bosruck tunnel construction project. The second bore of the tunnel calls for 450,000m3 of concrete by 2013.

Baselcement-Pikalevo has announced that it has started to extract limestone from a new quarry near Leningrad in Russia. The new site at Zapadny will produce more than 800,000 tonnes of limestone a year when in full operation following opening of the second phase in 2011. The €10.6million investment will help the company meet demand for limestone from its alumina oxide facility. Baselcement is also working on developing a new quarry at Vostochny which would add 25million tonnes of limestone reserves.