Features

The impact of COVID-19 on the South African cement industry has been devastating, with Bheki Mthembu, Head of the Inland Business Unit for Africa’s largest cement producer, PPC, describing it as the ‘final straw’ on an industry already in survival mode prior to the pandemic. He discusses the current state of the industry, the cement sector’s future and the role of technology in the ‘new normal’.

Environmentally friendly asphalt plants that also boost customers’ bottom lines are in demand.

UK-based minerals industry consultancy MinExp and quarrying awarding organisation EMPI Awards have developed the new Occupational Competence Assessment (OCA), an alternative assessment of capability for mobile plant operators in the British extractive and mineral processing industries. Guy Woodford spoke to one highly experienced quarry manager who is among the first to have successfully completed his assessment to find out more about its value

Global supply chains involve lots of organisations doing lots of transactions every day, all around the world. Everything is based on trust. How do you make sure that every link in the chain is doing what it is supposed to do?

Conveyor manufacturers offer increasingly innovative solutions for large and small to medium-sized building material suppliers.

A trio of major European crushing and screening plant manufacturers has much to offer when it comes to equipment safety and innovation.

The aggregates and construction industries account for more global resource use than any other sector. They both have a crucial role to play in the circular economy. How can your business get the licences it needs to run the site of the future?

Electrification brings many benefits to off-road machines such as zero exhaust emissions, improved efficiency and significantly reduced noise levels, so why aren’t we seeing more of them yet? Zeyd Okutan, Volvo Penta’s product manager responsible for the company’s Industrial Segment Electromobility Product Planning and Strategy, explains what direction the industry is heading in and what needs to happen before electric-powered machines become the norm

As the world adapts to ‘the new normal’, Iain Ormrod, general manager at Chepstow Plant International (CPI), discusses how the Covid-19 pandemic has reshaped the quarrying and aggregates sector so far.

Volvo Autonomous Solutions and BelAZ have both been developing new designs to advance the use of electric power in haulers.

Creating solutions capable of maximising transport efficiency through advanced automation is the goal of an entire industry. Volvo Autonomous Solutions believes it’s likely to happen first in the controlled world of quarrying and mining.