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Jacqueline O’Donovan, managing director of London, UK-based waste management company O’Donovan Waste Disposal, has been made a Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM).

Astec Industries has acquired the Concrete Equipment Company (CON-E-CO) and BMH Systems, two full-line concrete batch plant manufacturers serving customers around the world.

Analyst GlobalData forecasts that overall construction output will contract by 11.6% in France in 2020.

The full impact of COVID-19 on the UK economy is expected to spell uncertainty for the construction industry according to the Construction Products Association (CPA), despite the government putting the industry at the front and centre of its recovery plans.

Sandvik Asia is supporting a project to provide help for low income people impacted by the COVID-19 lockdown in India.

Komatsu Australia chief executive officer and managing director Sean Taylor has won the Institute of Quarrying’s 2020 Caernarfon Award for his campaign to encourage diversity in the company.​

Construction and infrastructure company Aggregate Industries has launched the ProLay system offering asphalt solutions tailored to specific applications.

The Mineral Products Association (MPA) has welcomed the UK Government's publication of the first register of businesses and sites registered for the Aggregates Levy.

Volvo CE has partnered with professional futurists to gather their forecasts for the industries that its customers work in, including construction, mining and infrastructure. The construction equipment manufacturer has also partnered with students from the Columbia College of Hollywood to animate these visions of the future.

The organisers of steinexpo, which has been rescheduled from this year to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, say that around 85% of exhibitors registered for the 2020 event have already indicated they will participate next year.

Orba Group is the official UK/Ireland dealer for wash-bear machinery, which is manufactured by Germany-based Moerschen.

Construction and quarrying technology company Trimble has added two new US dealership channels for its SITECH construction technology, SITECH Midway and SITECH Mid-America.