Concrete Plants, Equipment & Applications

Demand for aggregates in China will remain consistently strong over the next ten years despite the industry facing some major challenges, according to the head of the China Aggregates Association (CAA).
CAA president Hu Youyi said that China’s annual aggregates infrastructure consumption is over 20 billion tonnes (accounting for more than 50% of the global total for 2018 of 40 billion tonnes), with ever-increasing urbanisation driving demand. Global demand is estimated to total 60 billion tonnes by 2050.

The global construction aggregates market will have a total value of US$331bn at the end of 2019, and is anticipated to reach nearly US$623bn by the end of 2029, growing at a CAGR of around 6%.

The forecast comes in a new report from Persistence Market Research (PMR), which states that regional governments in emerging countries are continually focusing on addressing shortfalls in infrastructure and improving education & healthcare systems and water & sanitation.

In line with this agenda, governments

BDS Marketing Research (BDS) has published a new study of the UK ready mixed concrete market.

The study notes how during the middle part of this decade the market recovered a significant amount of the ground lost as a result of the 2007 recession, returning to annual outputs of more than 25 million m³. However, the last two years have seen that recovery begin to erode as the impact of Brexit and a general slowdown in the construction market have started to take effect.

BDS highlights that the leadin

US aggregates suppler Martin Marietta Materials has appointed Thomas Pike as an independent member to its board of directors.

The appointment, effective July 15, means the Martin Marietta Board is now comprised of 10 directors, five of whom have joined since 2016. Pike will serve on the company's management development and compensation committee.

He served as chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors of Quintiles Transnational Holdings from April 2016 until its merger in December

Valme, which designs and manufactures concrete distribution pipes and accessories, has completed its purchase of fellow Italian company Pamec for an undisclosed sum.

Pamec specialises in the design and manufacture of components and equipment for concrete pumping lines.

Valme says the acquisition of 100% of Pemec's share capital will expand its offering in the design and production of components and equipment for concrete pumping lines.

It adds that the transaction, first announced in April, will

Cementos Argos has been granted a patent for the formulation and method of obtaining ultra-high concrete performance or advanced concrete.

The Superintendence of Industry and Commerce in Colombia granted the patent of invention until 2035.

Cementos Argos, the cement operation of Grupo Argos, says the advanced concrete has greater mechanical resistance (compression, direct traction and bending), offering greater resistance to attacks by chemicals and having high fluidity in a plastic state. These prope

The post-2007 recovery in the ready mix concrete market has started to erode over the last two years, as the impact of Brexit and a general slowdown in the construction market have started to take effect.
During the middle part of this decade the ready mixed sector recovered a significant amount of the ground lost as a result of the 2007 recession, returning to annual outputs of more than 25 million m3.
The leading five companies continue to account for over 60% of the total market but a new report from