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German-headquartered concrete and asphalt plant provider Lintec & Linnhoff has appointed Gainwell Engineering to manufacture its concrete batching plants in India.

Yanmar Engine Manufacturing India (Yanmar Engine India), a leading off-highway machine engine manufacturer, has installed a 1MWp rooftop solar photovoltaic generation system to its industrial engine production facility in Tamil Nadu. The system will power about 30% of the facility's energy needs with green power.

ECOncrete co-founders Ido Sella and the late Shimrit Perkol-Finkel have been nominated by the European Patent Office (EPO) for the European Inventor Award 2022.

Afrimat, a leading South Africa-headquartered open-pit mining company supplying industrial minerals, bulk commodities and construction materials, saw its revenue rise 26.7% to R4.7bn (US$294.78mn) (2021: R3.7bn - US$232.06mn) in the year to 28 February 2022.

Infrastructure services company FM Conway has strengthened its senior leadership team with the appointments of Matt Tallon as sustainability director and Liz Garvey as HR director.

CEMEX says it expects to work with Coolbrook to test their patented technology, which uses electricity in place of fossil fuels in the heating process of cement production.

Cummins India is this week celebrating 60 years of its presence in India by exhibiting its cutting-edge solutions for the construction equipment industry at CII Excon 2022 (Hall 4 – Stall no A 22) in Bangalore.

Australian companies Boral and Calix have partnered on a CCUS (carbon capture usage and storage) project in New South Wales.