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A number of new quarrying and road construction machine control and onsite management solutions have come onto the market in early 2016, writes Guy Woodford.

Topcon Positioning Group’s new i-53 indicate dozer machine control system comes with the latest Topcon GNSS receiver, graphical user interface, and machine control software designed to deliver unbeatable versatility at the most economical price.

The system expands the Topcon dozer indicate product line by offering single GNSS plus single or dual

Now is a time of great opportunity but also some important challenges for the UK materials industry – both in terms of supplying demand and ensuring sustainable sourcing. Here, UKQAA technical director, Dr Robert Carroll, explores how the coal ash industry is helping to plug this gap.

Recent figures compiled by the MPA for the CBI Mineral Group show the aggregates industry generates a gross value added of £235 billion (€302.7 billion) – or put another way, 16 per cent of the total UK economy. While this

Shelley Frost, Executive Director – Policy, at the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH), says strong leadership is key to ensuring health and safety in and around quarries.

We all have the power to influence the behaviour of others through our own actions. This is especially true in the workplace and of senior leaders within an organisation. As well as setting the overall business agenda, their actions and attitude can often be reflected throughout a company and its employees, both positi

Kees Hoogendoorn has been speaking to ABE Executive Editor Patrick Smith about how his family-owned crushing and screening equipment company, Keestrack, now presents itself. With a new company logo, new nomenclature and many new machines and model updates across its entire broad-based programme of mobile processing technology, Keestrack says its crushing and screening units reinforce its position as “a globally operating full-liner with highly flexible solutions for mineral recycling and the commercial prod

French quarry operator Carrières GW, a part of Groupe Marc, is employing a Hitachi ZX470LCH-5 excavator at its 16.7 hectare site near St Malo in Brittany, northern France.
The large Zaxis-5 is helping the company to extract cornéenne, a metamorphic rock used in the production of concrete, and has so far “lived up to its reputation for a high-level of performance.” The ZX470LCH-5 is used to load materials onto the primary and secondary crushers on site before they are transported to a treatment area and the

As the effects of the recession continue to place financial strain on those working in the mining and quarrying sector, plant managers must take into consideration product life cycle and project cost per-hour when investing in new or replacement construction vehicles. Here, Lindsay Hart, European tyre sales manager at Titan International, considers the importance of correctly specified tyres for these demanding environments, and how the right tyre should actually lower outlays in the long run

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Resource Efficiency and Recycling are seen as the main buzzwords in the new Circular Economy Package. UEPG supports recycled aggregates as long as they are economic, environmentally and technically feasible.

But following the debate of some European and national decisionmakers, extraction of virgin raw materials could be deemed redundant if only the recycling rates were to be increased to 100% (closing the gap). This assumption ignores some key aspects such as the fact that the amount of recyclable and l

Sky-high cement demand in East Africa, fueled by greater construction investment in countries such as Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda and Tanzania, is increasing equipment supply to the region – especially from Germany and China. Shem Oirere reports.

With cement demand in East Africa awaiting confirmed growth of between 12.4% and 13.2% in 2015 and further growth tipped to 2018, expansion of current manufacturing capacity is likely, which could result in a major boost for foreign suppliers of cement making equipm

Shantui bulldozers are proving their worth at one Chinese coal mine. Mark Andrews reports. Yankuang Group is a large State Owned Enterprise (SOE) and the fourth largest coal producer in China. They are a large customer of Shantui equipment, particularly bulldozers, and with both companies based in Jining city in Shandong Province they have built a close working relationship.

The group’s mining business, operated as the Yanzhou Coal Mining Company, dates back to 1966 and many of the mines are in the area