Americas

Makapa Corporation in the Philippines is operating a Sandvik UJ300 wheeled jaw crushing unit together with a tracked QA335 Doublescreen to process river gravel. 

Haver & Boecker Niagara has recently expanded its manufacturing facility in Pedro Leopoldo, Brazil. 

US industry trade association Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) has given its strong support for the second annual Construction Inclusion Week, which started on October 17, and the need to champion and foster inclusion, diversity and equity throughout the construction industry.

Titan America has successfully implemented digitalisation applications based on artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning at its two cement plants, resulting in enhanced equipment throughput and reliability, reduced energy consumption, and improved product consistency and quality.

North America's construction industry output is expected to drop to $1.87trn in 2022 ($1.93trn in 2021) due to greater-than-anticipated inflationary pressure and interest rate hikes, according to Global Data, a leading business market intelligence company.

The American construction industry had 407,000 job openings in August, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) analysis of data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey.