Concrete Plants, Equipment & Applications

CIFA’s newest edition to its CARBOTECH truck-mounted concrete pump range is ready to prove a big hit for one ambitious UK on-site ready mixed concrete supplier, as Guy Woodford reports
Impressed with the performance of his CIFA K20L truck-mounted concrete pump and needing a bigger model to meet growing customer demand, Tom Baker, managing director of on-site mixed concrete supply firm Eastern Concrete, based in Stowmarket, county Suffolk, England recently bought the CIFA K39H CARBOTECH truck-mounted concre

Swedish company Sandahlsbolagen will invest SEK 20 million (€2.14 million) in a semi-mobile concrete factory that can be disassembled and rebuilt within two weeks.

The factory will have a capacity to produce six tonnes of concrete at a time and will be operated through Betongbolaget Sweden, which is a subsidiary to Sandahlsbolagen

Cifa has received a second Red Dot Award for its styling of the Coguaro mixer for transporting concrete in demanding environments. In 2014, the Red Dot Award (a worldwide award for product design) went to the company’s Energya truck mixer. The Coguaro was designed by the Styling Centre of Cifa in Senago, Milan, Italy, and powered by a Perkins 1106D-E66TA diesel engine producing 121kW at 2,220rpm, the Coguaro’s drum has a nominal capacity of 4m³ and a geometric volume of 4.8m³.

“For us, coming from the wo

PERI partnered with M & L Contracts Ltd to help restore the harmony of traffic flow along the shores of the beautiful Loch Lomond, in west central Scotland, immortalised by the famous Scottish folk song about its ‘bonnie bonnie banks’. Guy Woodford reports

The A82 at Pulpit Rock winds along one side of Loch Lomond and is currently undergoing major reconstruction work to improve traffic flow that has, for many years, been hindered due to a major landslide which blocked one lane of the original road width.

The Irish international building materials group, CRH, says it expects further progress in the second half of 2015, with group EBITDA from continuing operations in H2 expected to be ahead of 2014.
The group, which will report its interim results for the six months ending 30 June 2015 on 27 August, revealed this in an interim management statement for the period 1 January 2015 to 30 April 2015. Its annual meeting is in Dublin tomorrow (Thursday).
The statement says that looking ahead to the second half of t

The versatility of concrete, the most widely used man-made material measured by tonnage, has been known for thousands of years writes Patrick Smith. Ancient Romans made wide use of concrete, the incredibly flexible and adaptive blend of water, aggregates, sand and cement, and today it is still being developed. For example, outside the more traditional uses, such as highways, bridges and buildings, global cement company Cemex is installing ecological concrete cookstoves to improve the quality of life of thou

Finnish construction and infrastructure group Lemminkäinen has agreed on amending the terms of its €185 million revolving credit facility and extending the maturity by one year.

The credit facility will mature on 27 March, 2017, and is currently completely undrawn.

Nordea Bank Finland, Danske Bank, and Pohjola Bank are reported to be involved in the credit facility.