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LafargeHolcim has completed the delivery of 10,000 tonnes of cement for the 'heavy wharf' expansion project at the French port of Brest.

The €220m project in the Brittany region is designed to modernise existing infrastructure and increase capacity at the port. It includes the construction of a new wharf for handling heavy loads.

LafargeHolcim also supplied nearly 0.165m tonnes of draining sand for the project, which is scheduled for completion in 2020.

The French building materials company says

LafargeHolcim has completed the delivery of 10,000 tonnes of cement for the 'heavy wharf' expansion project at the French port of Brest.

The €220m project in the Brittany region is designed to modernise existing infrastructure and increase capacity at the port. It includes the construction of a new wharf for handling heavy loads.

LafargeHolcim also supplied nearly 0.165m tonnes of draining sand for the project, which is scheduled for completion in 2020.

The French building materials company says

For the past eight years, wet processing equipment manufacturer CDE has partnered with local colleges in Northern Ireland to nurture and upskill the next generation of engineering talent and innovative thinkers in the industry.

Today, almost one-third (30%) of its Global Design Team is made up of graduates from its successful CDE Apprenticeship Programme which is responsible for the design of almost 2,000 wet processing plants across the globe.

Since the programme was first launched, CDE has recruite

Furthering commitment to both its client base and workforce, commercial explosives and drilling & blasting specialist, EPC-UK has upgraded its Constructionline membership to Gold; a demonstration of the company’s continued assurance to maintaining the health, safety and wellbeing of its employees.

By joining forces with Constructionline through a Gold Membership, the company is equipping itself with the attributes many clients within the sector require.

Already a member of the Institute of Explosives

BDS has published an updated and extended version of its Survey of the cement industry in Great Britain, first published in 2016.

The refreshed report, published last month, updates information on market trends, estimates of market shares of producers, end-use and distribution models, regional analysis, developments in new, upgraded and extended facilities and future prospects. A new section also examines investment, innovation and development opportunities and strategies for cement companies.

In 2018

A total of 260 delegates, representing 65 organisations, gathered yesterday to hear a range of inspiring speakers on the theme of ‘Clearer, Simpler, Smarter’ and to celebrate commitment, progress and achievement in health & safety at the Mineral Products Association’s (MPA) Health & Safety Conference and Awards 2019, staged at 30 Euston Square, London.

In opening the Industrial Diagnostics Co.-sponsored event hosted by BBC Presenter Julian Worricker, Martin Riley, MPA chairman and senior vice president T

Two of Aggregate Industries’ employees have been recognised for their outstanding achievements and commitment to the minerals extractives industry at this year's Institute of Quarrying (IoQ) Fellow Lunch and Student Awards.

Dave Owen, an Asphalt Plant manager at Aggregate Industries, and Katie Sexton, a Graduate Management Trainee, were both awarded for excelling academically in the University of Derby's Centre for Mineral Products educational programmes.

Owen, who manages a team of 15 across Aggrega

With the economy and the construction sector set to grow at a steady speed in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg over the next few years, Terex Trucks is expanding its Benelux operations and bringing its TA300 and TA400 articulated haulers to even more customers throughout the region.

The construction sector in the Netherlands is predicted to grow around 5.5% in 2019 – representing the segment with the largest expansion within the Dutch economy. The Belgian construction industry is also expected t

A combination of Keestrack’s fully-electric and track-mounted R6e impact crusher and three-deck C6e classifier is set to save Paekivitoodete Tehas (PT) nearly €100,000 a year in operating cost at the company’s two rock quarries near Estonia’s capital city, Tallinn.

At Mone Brothers’ Fireclay recycling centre of Mone Brothers to the west of Leeds in North-West England, a powerful Kleemann MOBIREX MR 110 Z EVO2 impact crusher is said to be proving its worth as its kept busy recycling brick and concrete rubble.

Continental, a manufacturer of premium tyres for off- and on-highway machines, and Pyrolyx have entered into a five-year recovered carbon black (rCB) supply agreement for Continental tyre manufacturing facilities worldwide.

The supply agreement is the result of the two companies cooperation in the rCB technology field over recent years. It lays the foundation for using rCB in various Continental tyre segments during tyre production, representing a major step forward in addressing the global challenge of

Dangote Group, the Nigerian industrial conglomerate, has signed deals to build a cement factory and make phosphate into fertiliser in Togo, the small West African country’s government has announced.

Dangote signed a deal to build a cement factory at a cost of around $60 million. Construction of the factory is set to start in Q1 2020 and it will begin producing by the end of next year, the government statement reported by Reuters news agency said.

The cement would serve the Togolese market as well as

LafargeHolcim has taken note of a French appeal court decision to drop the charge of complicity in crimes against humanity brought against Lafarge SA over its operations in Syria, the French-Swiss cement maker said in a statement.

"LafargeHolcim deeply regrets the unacceptable errors committed in Syria", the company said in a statement reported by Reuters news agency, adding it "continues to cooperate fully with the French judicial authorities".

The French company is still facing charges of financing

SDLG has been displaying its LG946L wheeled loader at Philconstruct 2019. The cost-efficient utility machine on show at the well-attended exhibition hosted by the World Trade Centre in Manila, Philippines, is said to be ideal for loading and unloading loose materials, such as gravel and sand in quarries. The model is designed to adapt to a wide range of working conditions while delivering fast performance and reliability.

“We are seeing good progression in the Philippines and expecting to see continued