Concrete Plants, Equipment & Applications

Bury St Edmunds, County Suffolk, east England-based company BG Europa (UK) has been awarded the sole distributorship for Lintec Asphalt and Concrete modular plants in the UK and Ireland.

HeidelbergCement has completed the capacity expansion project at its cement plant in Górazdze, Poland, with the commissioning of a new cement mill.

Titan Cement is investing €100million towards the upgrade of its production facilities in order to increase its capacity for thermal utilisation of secondary fuels.

Italian cement manufacturer Italcementi has received permission to refurbish its Monselice plant in the Veneto region from the Council of state.

A cellular concrete plant and a construction materials plant are among the facilities set to be included in the near €990million Novoaltaysk Yuzhny industrial park being built in Novoaltaysk, Siberia.

Swedish cement producer Cementa is next month opening what it says will be the world's largest multi-chamber silo.

Russia-based Basel plans to start the €319.18million upgrade of its BasilCement plant in Pikalevo, near St Petersburg, in 2012.

An H&S issue at a UK quarry has been overcome using a Finnish-made system to move an excavator around the site. A special piece of equipment has been used by Lafarge Cement UK to overcome a tricky health and safety issue at one of its quarries. The 328 hectare Lafarge cement manufacturing site at Hope, County Derbyshire in England’s Peak District, was presented with the H&S challenge, for which a solution was supplied using an innovative, Finnish-built transportation system.

René Couanau, the mayor of French town Saint-Malo, has refused planning permission for a project to build eight cement silos at Saint-Malo port which would have led to additional traffic of 20,000 tonnes per year, 10% of the freight activity at the port.