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Independent, family-owned UK business Longcliffe Quarries has completed a £3.5m investment in a new state-of-the-art washing plant from Irish company CDE at its Brassington Moor quarry.

Denmark-based cement and mining products provider FLSmidth has reinstated its financial guidance for 2020, stating that it has begun to see a stabilisation of business activities.

Martin Riley is to become the new president of the Institute of Quarrying (IQ), taking over from Phil Redmond.

Simon Willis, chief executive officer of Hanson UK, has been appointed as chairman of the Mineral Products Association for the next two years, succeeding Tarmac senior VP Martin Riley.

The Walking Assembly project, developed by building materials giant CEMEX and the architect firm Matter Design, has received the R + D 2020 award, as part of the 14th Annual R + D Awards, organised by Architect Magazine.

JCB has restored a vintage 1964 backhoe loader to its former glory for one of its longest standing customers.

If any positives can be taken from the current Covid-19 pandemic, the prioritisation of professional health and safety standards in the workplace must rank highly among the most important ones.

The global undercarriage components market for mining, construction and agriculture and forestry-application excavators, dozers, track loaders, and crawler cranes is expected to be valued at around US$9.5bn by 2030, according to a new study by India-based business market research consultancy Fact.MR.

Doosan Infracore Europe has launched the new 43 tonne DX420LC-7 crawler excavator.

John Deere Power Systems (JDPS) has announced a change to its leadership team due to the planned retirement of David Hoffman, its director of worldwide marketing, sales and customer support.

Engineering giant Rolls-Royce, whose Power Systems business unit features MTU-branded diesel engines used in a wide variety of construction, mining and quarrying machinery, reported a pre-tax loss of £5.3bn for H1 2020.