Europe

Record temperatures are underlining the reality of climate change, and construction equipment must act quickly by switching to electric power to play its part in stopping the planet overheating.

Hanson’s Padeswood cement works in Flintshire, north-east Wales, has been shortlisted for funding as part of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy’s (BEIS) Phase 2 Carbon Capture and Storage Cluster Sequencing process.

After a successful start to the year, DEUTZ – one of the world’s leading manufacturers of innovative drive systems for off-highway applications – continued to benefit from the sustained recovery in relevant downstream industries in the second quarter and improved its earnings in the first half of 2022.

Private equity company IGI has taken majority ownership of Italian washing plant provider Matec Industries.

Terex Materials Processing (MP), a Terex Corporation business division and a major global player in aggregate, environmental, concrete, lifting, and handling machinery, has acquired the assets of ZenRobotics.

FLSmidth says it has completed all regulatory clearances and other conditions required for its acquisition of thyssenkrupp's Mining business (TK Mining), with the transaction due to close on 31 August 2022.

Cummins is to open a new high horsepower engine rebuild facility near Kraków in southern Poland.

Material solutions provider Sibelco has acquired Echasa, a mining company active in the extraction of silica sand in northern Spain.

Building materials supplier CEMEX is to further develop its global pilot of zero-emission electric concrete mixers.