Cemex goes digital with Novacom

Cemex is aiming to improve delivery of aggregates in France by river with the launch of a new GPS-based monitoring system. The company operates 88 transportation barges and 12 pusher boats on the River Seine and the new satellite-based system is designed to optimise the operation. The GPS tracking allows Cemex to follow the activity of the barges, analyse travel time between sites and evaluate the timing for loading and unloading materials.

BigChange, the UK-based mobile workforce management technology specialist, has won a contract to supply global mining, energy and logistics company Hargreaves Services with its three-in-one JobWatch system across Hargreaves’ 500-strong fleet of specialist aggregates vehicles, including tractors and trailers. Headquartered in Durham, northeast England, Hargreaves Logistics division transports over 7 million tonnes of bulk materials/year.

The turnkey solution from BigChange is introducing a paperless revol

Cemex, one of the world’s leading building materials companies, and IBM has announced that that Cemex will undertake a sweeping digital transformation designed to improve its operational efficiencies and customer experience.

The Mexican-headquartered sector giant’s digital transformation will enable real-time, mobile engagement with its building materials customers and distributors—companies that build everything from sports complexes and skyscrapers to houses and high-scale infrastructure around the wor

Cemex and Cemex Concretos are selling Cemex Concretos’ ready-mixed concrete pumping assets in Mexico to Pumping Team SLL (Pumping Team) for around US$80million, plus an additional $29 million purchase price contingent on future performance targets.

The assets being sold consist mainly of Cemex Concretos’ 507 ready-mix concrete pumping units and other related assets.

Pumping Team, a Spanish-based company that specializes in providing pumping services, will become the supplier of ready-mix concrete pump

The latest innovation on a CEMEX ready-mixed concrete truck is the removal of the ladder and platform, so the driver no longer has to work at height, better ensuring their safety.

This is one of several innovations introduced by Midlands-based concrete mixer supplier, Hymix, working in partnership with building materials supplier, CEMEX. The first truck of its type was on display at the recent 2019 UK Concrete Show (20-21 March).

The latest innovations focus not only on driver safety but that of vulne