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CEMEX has launched STREETPAVE - a three-stage bedding, bonding and jointing mortar paving system. The range consists of BS 7533 compliant products for rigid pavement construction.

The Mineral Products Association (MPA) has welcomed recognition of the sector’s essential role in the economy and the improvement in its environmental credentials in a report published by HM Treasury in response to the Aggregates Levy review.

Former Astec Industries CEO and president Ben Brock has bought asphalt plant component business JBK Enterprises.

Aggregate Industries, a leading UK construction and infrastructure player, has achieved international recognition from the Concrete Sustainability Council (CSC), receiving a Gold Certificate, the highest standard for aggregates supply, at Glensanda, the largest granite quarry in Europe. The company is the first in the UK to receive the coveted international prize.

Liebherr has supplied its 100,000th concrete truck mixer - an HTM 905.

EvoQuip has appointed its first distributor in South America after Dynsai SA (Dynsai) became the Terex brand's official distributor in Argentina.

The VDMA, Germany’s construction equipment and plant engineering trade association, has stressed how confidence and national, regional and global economic stimulus programmes will be the two key pillars of post-COVID-19-pandemic recovery.

CEMEX has announced its participation in the FastCarb Project, administrated by IREX, which aims to capture CO₂ in concrete, which is then used as aggregates.

Legalising e-scooter for UK highways could threaten road safety, according to the Mineral Products Association, whose members employ or use heavy drivers of large vehicles.