Features

Accurate and efficient payload management systems can save your quarrying business big money, while also helping to resolve weighing disputes and to identify and detect material theft issues.

China’s green quarrying revolution is underway, and a few sites have already built up a strong reputation for their eco-friendly operation.

Furloughing staff is one thing – but exiting lockdown and managing cash flow will be the real test, says one UK quarry chief

Quarry waste or “tailings” often represent only a liability item in the balance sheet of companies. Liam McLoughlin reports on how screening buckets are being used to turn such waste into a marketable asset.

Already China’s biggest aggregates crushing, screening and washing plant manufacturer, Shibang Industry & Technology Group (SBM) is wasting no time in executing its ambitious domestic and export growth strategy. Guy Woodford visited the company’s headquarters and spoke to Libo Fang, SBM executive vice president, to learn more

Drill rigs, hammers and breakers offer different means of gaining aggregates material in quarries. Guy Woodford looks at new products and hears how one Italian aggregates supplier is benefiting from one leading manufacturer’s proven breaker solutions

Demand for aggregates, cement and other construction materials has been rising in Poland over the last couple of years largely thanks to partially EU-funded transport and other infrastructure projects. Lafarge’s Poland business has been among the major domestic players that have benefited from this. Guy Woodford caught up with Lafarge’s executive vice president and aggregates product line director in Poland, Krzysztof Suchorz, to find out more about the current and likely future trends within the Polish building materials supply sector

The global quarry loading machine market is vibrant with many leading manufacturers due to unveil new models over the next 12-18 months. Guy Woodford spoke to experts at two leading wheeled loader and crawler excavator manufacturers to find out more about their new model plans, along with the key benefits of their current quarry-suited machine line-up

CEMBUREAU represents, promotes and defends the interests of the European cement industry in its work with policymakers at EU and national level. Aggregates Business editor Guy Woodford spoke to the association’s CEO, Koen Coppennholle, to learn more about its work, its priorities and the likely long-term future for the essential building material