Europe

The sensitive repair of a historic and treasured local church in Cardiff has been made possible through the donation of specialist Blue Lias limestone by Tarmac, the UK’s leading sustainable building materials and construction solutions business.

Holcim has completed the acquisition of Chrono Chape, one of France's leading independent providers of on-site self-levelling screeds. These fluid applications are used to create a smooth, even foundation upon which builders can lay the floor's finish, such as carpet or tile.

Heidelberg Materials' Swedish subsidiary Cementa is being allowed to continue quarrying material at its Slite limestone quarries on the island of Gotland, the country's Land and Environmental Court has announced.

Rob Oliver, who retired as the Chief Executive of the UK-based CEA (Construction Equipment Association) in 2021, has been awarded an MBE in the King's first New Year's honours list.

Crushing. Digging. Munching. Pecking. Feeding. Screening. Independent crushing and screening contractors Kastle Crushers needed a crawler excavator to do it all. With a brief to find a powerful and long-lasting model with a lower emission output, the North Yorkshire-based company turned to its trusted dealer, Taylor & Braithwaite. The machine that perfectly fitted that bill was the Hyundai 22-tonne HX220AL.

Komatsu reports that it has more than 2,000 'intelligent Machine Control' (iMC) dozers and excavators operating in Europe. The machines have clocked up more than seven million customer operation hours.

Komatsu is entering into an agreement to acquire GHH Group (GHH), a German manufacturer of underground mining, tunnelling and special civil engineering equipment based in Gelsenkirchen.

The UK construction equipment rental market was impacted by the cessation of construction work during lockdown in 2020, but its overall decline for that year was much less than experienced across construction as a whole.