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Chaney Enterprises is to acquire GreenRock Materials in a move which expands its presence into Central Virginia. 

FLSmidth, a global specialist in the supply of sustainable productivity to the global mining and cement industries via innovative engineering, equipment and service solutions, has signed a definitive agreement for the acquisition of KnowledgeScape, a global leader in digital optimisation solutions for the mineral processing industry.

German quarrying plant maker Kleemann has launched its first-ever mobile stacker range.

Swedish tiltrotator manufacturers Steelwrist and Rototilt have launched Open-S, an open standard for fully automatic quick couplers for excavators.

The Mineral Products Association's (MPA's) 'Sharing good practice 2019/20' guide is now available for download from Safequarry.com. The guide includes the best entries from the 2019 Health and Safety Awards and links to the short videos of the winners and runners up.

Hanson has supplied a range of complex concrete mixes to BAM Nuttall to build a new sea wall in Marine Parade, Dawlish, Devon, south-west England.

Metso Outotec is axing 254 jobs in Finland as part of a restructuring of operations following this summer's merger of Metso's Minerals business with Outotec.

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Global building material giant CEMEX and Synhelion have developed a groundbreaking technology designed to fully decarbonise the cement manufacturing process based on solar energy.

CRH has announced that Senan Murphy intends to retire from his position as the global building materials giant's Group finance director during 2021.

CEMEX says the Carbon Trust has validated its roadmap to decarbonise global operations in line with the Sectoral Decarbonisation Approach (SDA) two-degree scenario (2DS) developed by the International Energy Agency (IEA). The validated roadmap would enable the company to achieve a 35% reduction of net carbon emissions by 2030.

The Mineral Products Association (MPA) welcomes the UK government’s support for the ‘Leaders Pledge for Nature’ for nature recovery announced on 28 September. However, the ambition to protect a third of the land and sea for wildlife must be backed up by proper resourcing, for both creation and enhancement of new areas but also the management of existing protected sites.