Europe

Construction materials provider Breedon has appointed Donna Hunt as its first group head of sustainability.

Global energy and commodities company Vitol is the latest organisation to join Eurobitume, the European association of bitumen producers.

Sweden’s concrete production rose 8% year-on-year to 2,065,000m³ in the January-April 2020 period, according to new data from concrete producer association Svensk Betong.

Doosan Portable Power (DPP) has appointed Kompresory PEMA, based in Pelhřimov, as the company’s new authorised dealer for the Czech Republic.

Director of the Geological Survey of Northern Ireland at the British Geological Survey (BGS), Dr Marie Cowan, has been elected a Member of the Royal Irish Academy 2020.

Hitachi Construction Machinery Europe (HCME) plans to move its production and assembly activities currently taking place in Oosterhout, the Netherlands, to the company's existing production site in Amsterdam.

Leading UK construction and infrastructure company Aggregate Industries has completed all major works on one of Britain’s largest infrastructure projects - Highways England’s A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Improvement Scheme.

LafargeHolcim is said to have had the strongest result of 101 construction materials companies analysed by Sustainalytics, a leading global provider of ESG (environmental, social and governance risks) and corporate governance research and ratings to investors.

A Finnish construction engineering company is said to have achieved the impressive feat of crushing 200 tonnes of asphalt in just one hour.