Concrete Plants, Equipment & Applications

Eurocement is developing a project for the construction of a cement plant with a capacity of 1.3 million tonnes per year in the Blagodarny district of the Stavropol region of Russia.

Maintaining fixed concrete plants can be expensive, particularly when customers are spread over a wide geographical area but volumetric trucks are helping to overcome this issue. The economic downturn has hit all parts of the construction industry and the ready mixed concrete market is no exception. Although the prospects are now improving, many companies used the recession as an opportunity to close ageing concrete plants or ones where customers were too widely spread and rationalise their assets.

Cemex of France is said to be counting on the future A65 motorway and the future LGV high-speed rail line as outlets for its brand new ready-mix concrete factory in Saint-Pierre-du-Mont in the Landes department, south-west France.

Hungary-based subsidiary Nostra Cement – operated by a joint venture of Lafarge and Strabag - has announced the completion of a new cement plant in Kiralyegyhaza, which is now undergoing a six month-long test phase.

Danish company FLSmidth has received a contract worth €147.71 million for the supply of a complete cement plant from Russian company Kaluga Cement Plant.

Russia-based Novorocement has announced it has agreed to buy Inteco's cement plants in Atakaycement and Verkhnebakansky. The value of the deal has been estimated to be worth €137million.

JCB hopes to reduce the risk of theft on machines sold in the UK and Ireland with the announcement that 80% of the machines sold in these markets will be fitted with anti-theft devices as standard from this year. According to the company around £1million-worth of equipment is stolen every week in the region and currently just 5% of machines are recovered

Hitachi's Norwegian dealer - one of the country's oldest construction equipment suppliers - has given itself a fresh new look and name. Nanset Standard will now be known as Nasta and has launched a new logo to go with its new headquarters too. "When Nanset Standard was named in 1929, Nanset was chosen because it was the place where Søren Røed started the company as a fuel station and Standard referred to the fuel product," explained Nasta managing director Tom Johansen. "The new name will modernise the comp