Breaking, Drilling & Blasting

For five years European associations representing the Explosives for Civil Uses Task Force, led by the European Aggregates Association (UEPG), have worked closely to ensure a well-informed and prepared supply chain capable of implementing the European Union (EU) Directive on Identification and Traceability of Explosives for Civil Uses by the revised deadline of 5 April 2015.

The European Commission Directive 2008/43/EC, setting up a system for the identification and traceability of explosives for civil u

Finning customers can now access the company’s new parts website on a mobile device. The UK & Ireland Caterpillar dealer’s website www.finning.co.uk/parts also enables its users to browse service options and Ask The Expert from a mobile phone or tablet.
Finnig says that the website has been designed to give customers a fully integrated online solution, offering the ability to learn more about Finning product support by featuring information from the company’s parts, service and technology divisions.
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EPC-UK, one of the UK’s leading experts in commercial explosives and blasting services, has procured the drilling and blasting business of Gillrange AN. The acquisition will see EPC-UK take on certain assets and contracts, mainly in Mid and South Wales. This it believes will complement itsexisting rock on the ground service to quarries in the region. EPC-UK was already supplying many of Gillrange AN’s quarries with explosives, and therefore has an excellent understanding of its new customer base. By taking

Unacea says an encouraging rise in Italian construction equipment sales in 2014 does not negate the need to adopt its suggested measures to encourage healthy long-term demand.

Italian construction equipment market sales increased year-on-year by 11% in 2014, according to new data from the National Institute of Statistics (Istat), processed by Unacea, the leading trade association for Italian construction equipment manufacturers.

Within the overall Istat figures were 6,670 sales of earthmoving machin

EPC-UK, one of the UK’s leading experts in commercial explosives and blasting services, has opened a new Learning and Development Centre at its head office in Alfreton, County Derbyshire, central England.

The facility will house the company’s nationally-renowned training courses for the blasting industry, and will be available to the wider business community, providing a new state-of-the-art conference space in the Alfreton area.

The Learning and Development Centre was officially opened by Olivier Obs

Chicago Pneumatic is introducing its RX rig-mounted hydraulic breakers to the Chinese market. The company is making its construction equipment available in China for the first time and has chosen the RX breakers to form the first wave of product launches.

A network of distributors is being established across the country to make the breakers accessible to users in the construction, mining and quarrying industries.

“Our RX breakers are excellent flag-bearers for the range of construction equipment we ar

Australian construction company Dante Constructions has bought a small Rammer 455 breaker through local dealer, Walkers Hammers of Victoria. With a staff of ten, plus a long-serving team of contractors, Dante Constructions provides a range of building and maintenance services in Victoria. To provide enhanced levels of service the company recently bought a 3.5tonne Takeuchi TB128FR excavator, and subsequently went looking for a breaker to work with it.
After being contacted by company director Frank Mazzite