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Korea’s strong aggregates need is creating exciting business opportunities for construction materials suppliers and quarrying and construction equipment manufacturers. Guy Woodford reports. The global media’s geopolitical commentators are increasingly writing about Korea. The country is a rich topic for them given ongoing high tension between its north and south, the increasing interest of new U.S. president Donald Trump in the East Asia region, and the recent swearing in of South Korea’s new president, Moo

A Kleemann Mobicat MC 110 Z Evo jaw crusher is delivering great performance in an Italian gypsum quarry managed by Gyproc Saint-Gobain. Lucio Garofalo reports. Italy is one of the major producers in Europe of gypsum, a material found in abundance in Piedmont (near Asti), Sicily and the Marches, as well as in Emilia-Romagna. In this latter region, gypsum is found in the province of Bologna, but its occurrence is more pronounced in the Vena del Gesso Romagnola, where a gypsum ridge with an average width of 1.

New equipment, and companies, in the stone washing industry are helping to produce high quality products as Patrick Smith reports. The washing of aggregates is required for many markets and applications, and nowadays the finished product needs to meet specifications outlined by the ever stringent and demanding world markets. This is the view of DUO, a distributor for several European and USA equipment manufacturers. The company says: “Where dry screening was accepted in the past, washing and scrubbing are n

New state-of-the-art screening media is helping maximise screen uptime and longevity on minerals processing sites worldwide. Guy Woodford looks at some of the latest products. When it came to improving the screening efficiency of NCC Roads’ Nyrand Grusgrav operation in Svebölle, Denmark, the task proved easy thanks to Sandvik’s WX7000 screening media. The anti-blinding polyurethane screening media has increased production capacity, with enhanced material separation, reduced final product fines by 100%, and

Bheki Mthembu, the newly-appointed CEO of CIMERWA, the only integrated cement maker in Rwanda, will further drive the company’s growth agenda with a ‘beyond the ordinary’ approach reinforced by market innovations and product diversification. Munesu Shoko reports. The African cement market is a very competitive space with both local producers and importers jostling for a share of the potentially lucrative, but overtraded market. In such a highly competitive environment, conventional business approaches have

Germany’s demand for aggregates is set to grow, partly due to an increasingly strong residential construction sector. Patrick Smith reports. Germany’s annual demand for gravel, sand, quartz sand and natural stone products for the construction and many other industries is estimated at some 500 million tonnes/year. Indeed, in Germany, some 1,600 companies, with around 3,000 plants and 25,000 employees, are involved in the quarrying industry. Reputedly the largest producer of aggregates in Europe, the country

BAM installed two test sections in collaboration with the Dutch provinces of Noord-Brabant and Gelderland with an asphalt road surface consisting of up to 93% recycled material, more than three times the level in current practice.
The innovative mixture is produced at a temperature of around 105˚C. In addition to the high reuse value, this results in an energy and CO2-reduction of approximately 30%. To help accomplish this, BAM used SYLVAROAD RP1000 Performance Additive, a product by Arizona Chemical, a Su

Drones and cloud-based solutions represent cutting-edge technology driving big improvements in quarry operation efficiency worldwide. Guy Woodford reports on the latest developments in this sector. Caterpillar’s investment in Airware, the San Francisco-based provider of complete commercial drone solutions, has continued with Airware’s new Plan-Fly-Analyse cloud-based solution options being made available through Cat Connect Services and provided by Caterpillar and the Cat dealer network. Quarry managers can