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Successful Portuguese stone product firm Solancis is using proven and highly efficient Caterpillar wheeled loaders, excavators and articulated trucks for its crucial quarry-based limestone block loading and hauling. Guy Woodford visited the company to see them in action.

Martin Riley, senior VP of Tarmac, explains why we need a new careers language when it comes to developing skills of those working in the sustainable building materials sector. “Our industry is undergoing a new era of skills development. Yet I suspect that skills and aspirational career opportunities might not be the first words that come to mind when people think of quarrying or construction.

On 16 June 2016, a conference gathering of more than 90 participants in Brussels, Belgium, took stock of the achievements of the Social Dialogue Agreement on Workers’ Health Protection through the Good Handling and Use of Crystalline Silica and products containing it, ten years after its signature.

A top German crushing contractor and equipment rental firm which already had an extensive Metso plant fleet is reaping the benefits from investing in a new Lokotrack LT1213 impactor

Keeping crushing equipment updated is one way to save on operating costs in crushing contracting. This is said to be easy to prove with Germanybased Bierbrauer & Sohn’s all-new Metso Lokotrack LT1213 impactor plant. The new unit is said to consume less fuel than its smaller predecessor and simultaneously lifts the operational

An innovative method of monetising overburden from quarry and gravel pit aggregate production has been developed by a leading German quarrying equipment manufacturer. Guy Woodford reports

BHS-Sonthofen’s dry Combimix process removes clay adhesions from screen waste produced in quarries and gravel pits.

According to the company, operators are saying they can convert more than 90% of contaminated feed material into saleable rock grade using the Combimix system. At the same time, the dry process signific

The demand for new crushing and screening equipment continues to rise in various parts of the world to cope with the need for aggregates. As with a variety of such equipment from various manufacturers, a reduction in fuel costs, and thus production costs, are a major factor.
In India, German manufacturer Kleemann, which unveiled its Mobicone MCO 11 Pro mobile cone crusher at bauma 2016, has proved a success with Sairaj Developers of Jalgaon, in the western India state of Maharashtra. Its new Kleemann Mobic