Concrete Plants, Equipment & Applications

Buy and build construction aggregates provider SigmaRoc has announced plans to acquire aggregates company CDH Developpement for a total of €45m.

UK-based SigmaRoc said in a statement that CDH Développement is the holding company of Carrières du Hainaut SCA and CDH International SCA, the Belgian blue limestone ("bluestone") and aggregates business.

Founded in 1888, CDH is Europe's largest bluestone quarry, with a 50% global market share. It is also a major aggregates quarry, producing 1.5m - 2m tonnes

The Construction Products Association (CPA) has lowered its forecasts for construction output growth in 2020 and 2021.

The association's autumn forecasts have been downgraded from 1.0% (for 2020) and 1.4% (for 2021) to 0.5% and 0.9% respectively from its summer forecasts.

The CPA - which represents UK manufacturers and distributors of construction products and materials - says the downgrade reflects uncertainty around Brexit and major infrastructure delivery. The uncertainty most notably centres arou

The cement industry is fully aware of the issues concerning sustainability but it cannot solve these issues individually, according to Per Mejnert Kristensen of FLSmidth.

Kristensen, who is region president for Asia at the Danish-based cement and mining products and solutions company, was speaking about sustainability and the role of the cement industry at the second annual Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA) Conference in Singapore.

On October 10, he joined other industry leaders on a panel

The Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA) has announced the winners of its “Concrete in Life” global photography competition, which attracted more than 5,000 entries from more than 40 countries.

The contest is designed to showcase the vital role played by concrete in supporting economies, connecting communities, and building innovative structures all over the world.

Open to professional and amateur photographers via social media and online, the competition was split across three categories (Ur

Dr Nina Cardinal has joined UK building materials supplier Hanson Cement as its new national technical manager.

She heads the division’s technical team, which offers customers advice, information and support on all cement issues.

She previously worked at Tata Speciality Steels for more than 20 years, latterly as technical director responsible for a 70-strong team, before joining the University of Sheffield as director of operations in the Faculty of Science in 2016.

She commented on her appointmen

Building materials provider Cemex UK Operations has been fined £1m after a worker suffered fatal injuries when he was struck on the body by a centering machine lifting mast.

Livingston Sheriff Court in Scotland heard that on 13 May 2017, James Brownlie was carrying out maintenance and repair work on a dry sided conveyor, part of which ran under a machine known as a centering machine. The centering machine was not isolated at the time and part of Mr Brownlie’s body interrupted the path of the light beam b

Construction and infrastructure provider Aggregate Industries has laid its millionth tonne of material on Highways England’s A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Improvement Scheme.

The company says the landmark - achieved in collaboration with the A14 Integrated Delivery Team - coincides with the UK project’s designated, on-site asphalt plant producing its 350,000th tonne for use on the improvement scheme.

In addition, 150,000 tonnes of asphalt has been provided from Aggregate Industries’ plants at Bardon Hi