Features

The Swerock-owned Vändle quarry in central Sweden is one of the region’s major suppliers of crushed rock and asphalt. Its products are in high demand for infrastructure projects, and site manager Patrick Ericzén says the quarry’s typically Swedish non-hierarchical working structure boosts its productivity and safety

Quarry operators can generate a great deal of productivity and efficiency gains through using premium stationary aggregates plants

Have you heard about sustainable finance? One year ago, only insiders and experts would have answered ‘yes’. Since France has pushed Brussels to consider nuclear energy as sustainable (with German reluctance as Berlin is phasing out nuclear power), almost everyone talks about it. Few, however, know about the work of the EU Platform on Sustainable Finance (PSF) and the taxonomy regulation and even fewer have detailed knowledge of the reports which frequently start with a scary statement: “This is a long report. Please think before printing.”

Demand for sand is growing in Uganda amid a building boom in the East African country, but extraction and regulation challenges abound

Companies are stepping up their recycling and sustainability efforts across a range of sectors including crushing & screening and off-road tyre retreading

Dr Miles Watkins, a building materials industry sustainability consultant, has seen demand for his expertise and services rise exponentially in the last two to three years as more and more suppliers in the UK and the wider world look to lower their production carbon emissions and the environmental impact of their products. Focusing on the UK building materials market, Watkins talks to Guy Woodford about its current sustainability efforts and what needs to happen for ambitious carbon emissions targets to be realised

A new Kleemann MOBISCREEN has been excelling in its first practical quarry site application, while other new crushing and screening plant and their linked technology are catching industry attention