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Maptek’s Vulcan software is helping one savvy Greek quarries manager accurately plan and manage his marble reserves. Guy Woodford reports.

The English idiom ‘It’s all Greek to me’ refers to something that is difficult to understand. How best to secure accurate mineral reserves data and find the right platform to clearly interpret it can fit such a turn of phrase, but one Greek quarrying company believes it has found the answer in the form of Maptek’s Vulcan software.
Iktinos Hellas SA and its quarries m

Standfirst: Metso’s SiteBooster crushing and screening plant optimisation solution is designed to enable quarry operators improve productivity and safety by adjusting their existing plant assets. Liam McLoughlin reports.
Metso is looking to expand its SiteBooster crushing and screening plant optimisation solution from the existing core market in France to the rest of Europe.
SiteBooster plant optimisation solutions have been applied to aggregates plants since 2005, but are not yet widely used outside of F

Global demand for recycled aggregates is rising, creating attractive business opportunities for international crushing and screening plant manufacturers. Guy Woodford reports

In March 2019, Terex Corporation announced a new £12 million (US$15.38mn) manufacturing facility located in Derry, Northern Ireland. The new 9,755m² facility will focus on the design, manufacture and development of product lines for Terex Ecotec (waste management and recycling) and Terex Conveying Systems (TCS) mobile conveying.

Jon Rudolph has a long relationship with the railroad, from his father serving as a personnel safety manager in the 70s to his latest project — a loop for the White Pass Railroad in Skagway, Alaska designed to allow more people to experience the remote beauty of the north.

Rudolph serves as the vice president of operations for Cobalt Construction, the company chosen to work with the new owners of the historic railroad to expand and enhance service for the cruise ship industry. Deemed one of the most popu

Every company needs to stay ahead of the digital curve, but few go so far as inviting hackers to take over their systems. Construction equipment company Volvo CE has done just that in an effort to tackle the time-consuming process of undercarriage wear inspections for excavators.
Volvo Construction Equipment (CE) has staged its first hackathon with the aim of providing a clever answer to a common problem: how to increase a company’s digital diversity.

The ‘Hack Sprint’ event, a collaboration with Volvo