Features

CIFA’s newest edition to its CARBOTECH truck-mounted concrete pump range is ready to prove a big hit for one ambitious UK on-site ready mixed concrete supplier, as Guy Woodford reports
Impressed with the performance of his CIFA K20L truck-mounted concrete pump and needing a bigger model to meet growing customer demand, Tom Baker, managing director of on-site mixed concrete supply firm Eastern Concrete, based in Stowmarket, county Suffolk, England recently bought the CIFA K39H CARBOTECH truck-mounted concre

The need to achieve a balance between demand for aggregates and local communities’ desire to be protected from the potential negative impacts of quarrying is one which applies to both new and existing sites. In particular, quarry operators can be faced with significant resistance from local communities and action groups about the amount of dust generated. Rachel McHale, Senior Air Quality, Dust and Odour Consultant, at environmental firm SLR Consulting, examines how to ensure that dust monitoring regimes co

A wide variety of new Tier 4 Final/Stage IV emissions standard engines and other engine performance-enhancing technologies for quarrying and heavy civil construction machines have hit the market, with more than one leading engine manufacturer already turning its attention to the next emission stage requirements. Guy Woodford reports.

The world’s leading construction equipment engine manufacturers worked tirelessly to meet Tier 4 Final/Stage IV emissions standards, but they are already focused on the new

Customers of one leading dump truck manufacturer are set to receive replacement parts in ultra-quick time thanks to the opening of a new European logistics centre, while another is targeting growth thanks to renewed investment following their big money acquisition. Guy Woodford reports.

Bell customers across Europe are to receive their replacement articulated dump truck parts quicker than ever before after the South African hauling giant completes its new enlarged logistics centre in Germany.

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A Lafarge Tarmac quarry in county Bedfordshire, southern England, boasts the world’s first Terex Washing Systems’ AggreSand 206 modular wash plant combined with a TWS AggreScrub 150. Guy Woodford visited the quarry during a world premiere showcase for new customers and TWS dealers of the two models working in tandem to hear how the dual solution from the Northern Irish firm is helping Lafarge Tarmac meet its customers’ needs.

Having moved two kilometres to its larger Broom South quarry from Broom quarry

A Telestack TS 842, the largest mobile conveyor in Denmark, is at work in the largest gravel pit in the country.

NSI, which is Denmark’s largest producer of sand and gravel, is using the stacker at its gravel pit in Roskilde, close to the capital city of Copenhagen.

The enormous Telestack TS 842 works in conjunction with a mobile crushing plant, a set that is producing road base material for a large number of infrastructure projects in Copenhagen, which is growing rapidly.

The telescopic Telestack

A new Terex Finlay 683 Supertrak is said to be helping a company increase productivity.

Launched just over six months ago by Newlay Concrete, Dewsbury Sand and Gravel is part of the long-established Hargreaves Group GB, who produce a wide range of aggregates for the construction industry as well as decorative aggregates for the commercial market.

The machine has been supplied to the county West Yorkshire company by Finlay Plant Northern, part of the Finlay Group of companies.

Dewsbury Sand and Grav