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George Apostolopoulos has been highlighting Robit's and his own priorities for 2021 and beyond after being recently appointed as the company's vice president of Global Sales.

A 144-page book called the JCB Scrapbook has been published to celebrate the equipment manufacturer's 75 years in business.

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company and SafeAI, a technology provider for autonomous heavy equipment, have announced a strategic relationship to incorporate tyre intelligence into the programming of autonomous heavy equipment vehicles.

The American Concrete Institute has released its new ACI 301-20 Specifications for Concrete Construction.

UK retail sales of construction and earthmoving equipment in November were 4% below the same month in 2019. This follows a shortfall of 3% in October and suggests that sales are stabilising at just below 2019 levels in the last quarter of the year.

Pan-United has achieved Singapore's largest two continuous ready-mix concrete pours in casting the raft foundation for a development project in the Labrador area.

FLSmidth, the Danish cement and mining equipment and linked services giant, has agreed to sell fabric filter technology, a non-core business of its advanced filter technology (AFT), to Simatek, a Denmark-based manufacturer of industrial filters.

Caterpillar is collaborating with Guardhat to offer their proven safety solutions to surface mining operations through Cat dealers.

Aggregate Industries, a member of the LafargeHolcim Group, has acquired Northumbrian Roads, a leading independent road surfacing and highway maintenance contractor with a very strong presence in the North East market, due to its two large asphalt plants in the Port of Tyne and the Port of Sunderland.

14Trees, a LafargeHolcim joint venture with CDC Group, the UK’s publicly owned impact investor, is deploying 3D printing technology at scale to build affordable and low-carbon housing and schools in Africa, starting in Malawi.

The World Cement Association (WCA) has added Roland van Wijnen, CEO of Africa’s PPC, and Mahendra Singhi, managing director & CEO of India’s Dalmia Cement, to the association's board of directors.

Construction materials group Boral and its joint venture partner, an affiliate of Lone Star Funds, have agreed to sell the North American-based Meridian Brick business to Austrian brick maker Wienerberger for US$250m.

Lawmakers in America today unveiled a US$2 trillion COVID-19 relief and government funding package that contained several AED (Associated Equipment Distributors) priorities, including an additional US$10 billion for state Departments of Transportation (DOT) to fund road and bridge projects.

Responding to strong customer demand in key metropolitan markets, CEMEX EMEAA (Europe, Middle East, Africa & Asia) is investing in operational improvements and mortar capacity expansions in Spain, the UK and Poland, while also introducing selected mortar solutions in Israel and Egypt.