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Maptek has added a rock fragmentation analysis tool to the new 2020 edition of its PointStudio geospatial modelling and reporting software.

Smart Sand has acquired frac sand mines and related processing facilities from Eagle Materials in Utica, Illinois and New Auburn, Wisconsin.

Tsurumi, a leading global market manufacturer of submersible pumps, generators, and process equipment for the quarrying, mining and other industries, is testing a new service for pump operators: live broadcasts on the internet that teach technical knowledge.

Rapid Power Generation (RPG) has entered the gas-fuelled generator market with the launch of a new partnership with Pramac-Generac. The new agreement will see the company act as sole distributors of the Pramac industrial gas range of generators for the whole of Ireland.

Ammann is providing an ABP HRT mixing plant which will produce 250,000 tonnes of asphalt on-site for the project to renovate a section of the N2 Motorway in Switzerland.

Canadian clean technology company CarbonCure has announced an investment co-led by Amazon and Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV) will be used to tackle the carbon footprint of concrete.

Construction equipment association CECE and the European Materials Handling Federation (FEM) are among 40 European industry groups calling on the European Commission to take decisive action in solving implementation issues within the EU Waste Framework Directive (WFD).

LafargeHolcim‘s CO2ment Colorado project has received $1.5 million from the United States Department of Energy’s (DoE) National Energy Technology Laboratory.

Time is running out for the established construction equipment sector order and the winners of tomorrow will be those that bundle today’s emerging trends in the right way. Industry heavyweights Alan Berger (who has lead product development for Volvo CE and was chief technology officer of CNH Industrial) and Carl Gustaf Goransson (who was global president construction for CNH Industrial and has also worked for Cargotec’s Hiab brand and Volvo CE) signpost the way forward in a Q&A session led by Callum Sarsfield, founding partner at Pullmann Global.

Silicon Valley startup Blue Planet has completed a US$10m financing round for its system to produce synthetic limestone that can be used to make carbon neutral concrete.

LafargeHolcim has signed a net zero pledge for CO2 emissions by 2030 with the United Nations-backed Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi).