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Many new crushers and screens have been launched onto the global market in the last few months, as Guy Woodford reports. More than 300 international dealers and customers from over 90 countries travelled to London, England recently for Terex Finlay’s action-packed three-day dealer conference. A full programme of events included the unveiling of new products, a business conference, live product demonstrations and an end-user open day.

A QH331 Sandvik Construction tracked mobile cone crusher is making light work of volcanic rock in South Africa.
The QH331 crusher has been supplied by Sandvik Mobile Crushers and Screens distributor, Pilot Crushtec, who recommended the machine to work as part of a crushing train producing base material for a road construction project in the Eastern Cape.
Pilot Crushtec, founded in 1990, is said to be one of South Africa’s leading distributors of mobile crushing and screening equipment.
Over the last 20

A new Safequarry app, the industry’s first health and safety app, has been launched at the Mineral Products Association’s Health & Safety Conference and Awards 2014. At the same time one of the industry’s newest companies, Hope Construction Materials, also received a top safety award. The conference heard that over recent years the Safequarry.com website has made a huge impact across the mineral products industry and beyond: 112 countries worldwide.

The aesthetic appearance of construction machinery is immediately recognisable, but to a casual observer the technical thought process that influences their designs can be overlooked. Legislative changes, the safety and comfort of operators, and the continuous development of new technologies make the visual design of construction equipment a complex and intellectually challenging endeavour, says Chinese construction manufacturer LiuGong.

A new modular Metso crushing and screening solution is allowing a quarry company to overcome Mozambique’s tough operational environment and meet growing national aggregate demand, as Munesu Shoko reports
Having posted a robust real GDP growth of 7% in 2013, Mozambique’s economy is on a path of exciting expansion. The unprecedented growth in coal production and the implementation of mega infrastructure projects, coupled with budgetary expansion, are projected to continue swelling growth, estimated at abou

Scandinavia’s aggregates industry is gearing up for a period of welcome steady growth, as Jon Masters reports.
Quarry operators and their equipment suppliers can look forward to some good growth numbers in the Scandinavian countries of Sweden, Denmark and Norway. There is the caveat of economic warning signs suggesting the region may dip back into recession, but aggregates demand is expected to be maintained. And in all likelihood, orders will increase steadily over the next year or two as growth returns t

Quarries must be properly inspected and maintained to ensure the health and safety of all workers on site. Patrick Smith reports.

Maintenance activities at quarries range from the mainte¬nance of machines, equipment and vehicles to the keeping of roadways on site in good order, attending to such matters as providing edge protection and securing excavations, says the European Agency for Safety and Health at work (EU-OSHA).

Meanwhile, Ryan Barker, global service manager at CDE Global, says that with ma

A new 20m high secondary aggregate production plant belonging to UK company Wainwright & Co is estimated to be 60% more productive than the equipment it replaces.

The county Somerset, south-west England-based company’s Moons Hill Quarry has seen £3.5 million (€4.4 million) of investment in the plant, replacing some of the equipment that has been in use since 1963. The crushing and screening equipment is all manufactured by Sandvik Construction.

Independent company John Wainwright & Co has been supplyi