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Leading UK construction materials suppliers Aggregate Industries and Tarmac recently gathered logistics professionals from across the industry to discuss best practice and take a look at two of the safest vehicles on the market.

JCB is today (18 March) stopping production at all of its UK manufacturing plants. The equipment manufacturing giant blames disruption resulting from the worldwide Coronavirus pandemic which it says has caused "an unprecedented reduction" in global demand.

SaMoTer will now be held on 21-25 October 2020 in the wake of the impact of the Covid-19 virus.

Doosan Bobcat EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) set a new annual sales record in 2019.

The UK-based Mineral Products Association (MPA) has written to the Chancellor of the Exchequer calling for greater support for businesses during the Covid-19 epidemic.

Information is moving fast and so is Ritchie Bros. With concerns about large gatherings growing around the world due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Canadian company is using its successful online bidding system and mobile application to continue to conduct regular onsite construction and quarrying equipment auctions, with temporary changes to the process and procedure of those events.

Four Terex Trucks TA400 articulated haulers have clocked up around 48,000 hours in a remote coal mine in Siberia, Russia, where they are braving extreme conditions and sub-zero temperatures.

Holcim Philippines is reported by the Manila Standard newspaper to be proposing to boost its usage of pre-processed, properly segregated and qualified waste as raw materials and alternative fuels.

On the fourth and final day at Conexpo, the news kept coming. CIFA tells us all about its comprehensive new support structure for North America and its latest carbon fibre concrete pumps; Simex outlines the updated version of its PL 60 self-levelling road planer and Kleemann reveals its 120 PRO mobile jaw crusher, proving that more output doesn't always mean higher fuel consumption levels.

Terex has created a new brand, called ProStack, to offer products addressing the needs of the bulk material handling and product stockpiling markets.

Day three at Conexpo and there's revolution in the air with Power Curbers launching an all-new version of the world's best-selling concrete slipform machine, the 5700-D; with Trimble bundling a host of software solutions together in one service platform funded by a fixed monthly fee ... and with Metso showcasing 19 fast and flexible Nordtrack mobile screening and crushing units.

Eagle Iron Works (EIW) has added a dewatering screen to its product offering, which the US company says is in response to longstanding demand from dealers and customers.

Pump hire specialist Sykes Pumps has enabled CEMEX to carry out business-critical maintenance at its Rugby, central England, cement plant thanks to a specialist B150 Bentonite pump.

Magna Tyres Group has appointed Arjen de Kruijf as its new chief financial officer.