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Aggregate Industries has appointed Dragan Maksimovic as its new CEO, effective 1 June 2021.

The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) has issued a fatality alert after a shuttle car operator was struck by a second shuttle car. 

As part of its innovative Vertua low-carbon product portfolio, CEMEX has launched its new high-performance grey cement type II 52.5 R.

UK aggregates and waste management services provider CCC has deployed a new waste recycling plant from Northern Irish wet processing company CDE.

Construction materials company Saint-Gobain has entered into an agreement to acquire fellow French company Chryso, a global player in the construction chemicals additives sector.

HeidelbergCement has signed an agreement to sell its business activities in the US West region to Martin Marietta Materials for $2.3 billion. 

SMT GB is the latest machine distributor in the UK to fit CESAR Emission Compliance Verification (ECV) as standard to Volvo's full range of GPE machinery, prepared at the company's facilities at Immingham in Lincolnshire.

The UK government is providing a total of £166.5m in new funding for green technologies, including carbon capture usage and storage (CCUS).

The National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association (NSSGA) has issued a statement following the introduction of the  Rebuilding Our Communities by Keeping aggregates Sustainable (ROCKS) Act.

UK-based Tarmac is supporting the National Memorial Arboretum with its plans to create a living memorial commemorating the lives lost during the pandemic.

French low carbon cement manufacturer Hoffmann Green Cement Technologies has partnered with the Cougnaud Group in its first construction project undertaken off-site.

The European construction equipment industry has rapidly turned around from crisis into boom during the second quarter of 2021, according to construction equipment manufacturing association CECE.

With the increasing use of alternative fuel in cement production, chlorine excess in the kiln system is common. To address this challenge, Cimpor, the Iberian region's leading producer of cement, has called upon FLSmidth to deliver a chlorine bypass solution for their site in Souselas, Portugal.