Features

In a recent blog, that we are republishing on the Aggregates Business website, Hazen Bowskill, Quarry Operations manager at Aggregates Industries’ Heights Quarry, and Institute of Quarrying (IQ) North of England branch chairman, gave an inspirational first-hand account of how UK quarrying professionals are supporting the NHS during the Covid-19 pandemic

To prove deliberate flouting of standards by some third-party cement blenders in the South African cement market, PPC appointed an accredited independent laboratory in September 2017. Njombo Lekula, MD of PPC RSA Cement, reveals that the exercise has unearthed a serious breach of standards, which poses a major threat to consumers and the integrity of the country’s cement industry at large.

Aggregates producers are looking at ways to protect their businesses during the Covid-19 pandemic. Below, Kevin Garcia, general manager of Civil Specialty Solutions for Trimble’s Civil Engineering and Construction Division, which includes Trimble’s solutions for the aggregates industry, explains how having a prepared team with the right tools can help

The 6th China International Aggregates Conference held at the InterContinental hotel in Wuxi heard how China is embarking on a green quarrying revolution that will transform the aggregates production industry across the world’s most populous country.

Ofitas de San Felices Group (OSF Group) is a major family-owned Spanish independent aggregates and ballast products business with a proud history of serving its diverse customer base, including many major government rail and highway project contractors. Guy Woodford spent a day with Iñigo Ajuria, OSF Group’s owner and general manager, to find out more about the key factors behind the company’s sustained success, despite operating in what continues to be a challenging national building materials market.