Features

Bin Lahej Crushers is using a fleet of Volvo construction equipment to produce an abundance of high quality aggregate at its site in Fujairah, UAE Located in the northeast of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Fujairah is an emirate almost entirely surrounded by mountains. This rugged landscape is the product of an estimated 800 million years of geological activity and today provides a vast supply of quality limestone.

Lachat has turned to Hitachi as part of its work to improve production at the Asuel La Malcôte quarry in Switzerland. Pat Smith reports At Asuel La Malcôte quarry in the Swiss canton of Jura, a new Lachat-owned large Zaxis-5 excavator is excavating a mixture of marlstone and limestone materials in a much cleaner way than before, and helping to sanitise this relatively unstable site.

McCloskey International’s crushing and track stacking equipment is playing a crucial role in the continued success of a French family quarrying business. Guy Woodford reports Run by brothers’ Jean-Christophe and Stephane Semonsat, Semonsat Fils is the most recently established firm within their family’s impressive quarrying industry history dating back to the 1950s.

Aggregate Industries, a leading UK-based supplier of construction materials, has helped an RSPB project take flight by delivering 10,000tonnes of landscaping products and providing a highly efficient and sustainable solution. Guy Woodford reports Wallasea Island Wild Coast Project in county Essex, Southeast England, is a landmark conservation and engineering scheme and the largest development of its type in Europe. The aim of the project is to transform what was widely considered a ‘no man’s land’ by recre

Simon Trahair-Davies of Stephens Scown LLP outlines a UK case which considered whether a private nuisance claim was covered by the Aarhus Convention, which gives the public access to environmental information. This case is of interest to aggregates businesses because it relates to an application for a protective costs order in a private nuisance claim for dust and noise created during a land restoration project, and the question of whether this is covered by the Aarhus Convention.

PERI partnered with M & L Contracts Ltd to help restore the harmony of traffic flow along the shores of the beautiful Loch Lomond, in west central Scotland, immortalised by the famous Scottish folk song about its ‘bonnie bonnie banks’. Guy Woodford reports

The A82 at Pulpit Rock winds along one side of Loch Lomond and is currently undergoing major reconstruction work to improve traffic flow that has, for many years, been hindered due to a major landslide which blocked one lane of the original road width.

Greater efficiency is a key feature of the latest washing solutions to have come out of Europe and the US. Guy Woodford reports.

Terex Washing System’s AggreSand solution is said to be playing a key role in enabling The Geddes Group, a Scottish sand and gravel product supplier, to meet its concrete and asphalt business customers’ demands.

The company’s sand and gravel reserves were running low at its Stannochy Quarry site in Brechin, northeast Scotland, prompting a recent move to a new site at Struan

Drilling and blasting is not just a method of safely making the solid rock accessible to the quarrying process.