JCB’s all-electric mini excavator wins major engineering award in the UK. The prize is for engineering innovation and was awarded by the UK’s Royal Academy of Engineering.
Information is critical in the fight against COVID-19, which has prompted South Africa surface mining industry association, ASPASA, to spare no effort to ensure that its members and their staff are well informed about the disease.
A planning application has been submitted to Wakefield Council in West Yorkshire, northern England, for a new sand and gravel quarry near Stanley Ferry, which will eventually be used as a recreational site for local residents.
Organisers of the bauma China 2020 exhibition say that the event will now take place as planned. More than 3,000 exhibitors are expected while the exhibition space will total 300,000m² and visitor registration is planned to be open from mid-August 2020.
Aggregate Industries laid a record-breaking 52,000 tonnes of asphalt in one month in the early completion of its works as part of the M23 smart motorway project in southern England. The amount of asphalt laid is a monthly record for a new British smart motorway installation.
The UK-based Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) has launched Phase 1 of its merger inquiry into the anticipated acquisition by Breedon Group of certain CEMEX UK assets.
While the South African construction industry remains in the grips of a long-lasting downturn, worsened by Covid-19 in recent months, ASPASA says there remains no excuse for construction contractors or building material suppliers to excavate sand and aggregates illegally.
The secretary-general of European construction equipment manufacturing association CECE has highlighted the recent improving trends in the sector's business climate after the disastrous decline in April and May.
German building materials giant HeidelbergCement will write off around €3.4 billion before tax due to the coronavirus crisis, German financial media reports.
Metso Outotec has begun employee cooperation negotiations related to organisational restructuring following the merger of Metso's Minerals business and Outotec on 1 July 2020.
SigmaRoc's wholly-owned Belgian subsidiary CDH (Carrières du Hainaut) has signed an agreement with the Walloon government which will see it co-fund around €700,000 of an estimated €3 million of infrastructure works required as part of the company's blue stone quarry extension project at Soignies.
