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Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE), as part of Volvo Group, has celebrated the milestone of one million connected customer vehicles and machines.

The construction equipment provider, which has 150,000 of the group’s connected assets, says its connectivity offering helps customers boost uptime, safety and productivity with the use of smart site solutions.

To mark the achievement Volvo CE has handed over four excavators – each complete with Volvo’s built-in telematics system CareTrack – to Danish r

LafargeHolcim, the French-Swiss global building materials giant, is showcasing its new ORIS and COPave solutions while highlighting the group’s advanced integrated road offer at the Abu Dhabi World Road Congress.

Said to be the world’s first digital material platform, ORIS helps assess road designs at a very early stage with a holistic view including both the construction and maintenance phases of road projects. Thanks to a powerful algorithm, ORIS supports road investors, owners and designers in properl

Metso was today staging its second global aggregates Distributor Days in Tampere, Finland. The October 7-8 seminar gathers together Metso aggregates distributors from all over the world to exchange experiences and discuss opportunities, challenges and the future of the aggregates industry. This year, more than 200 participants from all over the world are expected to join the event.

“The Distributor Days event is a vital tool in building a strong worldwide distributor community. It is a platform where we

Molson Group has been appointed as a nationwide dealer for Terex Trucks in the UK.

The Bristol-headquartered dealer says that the move expands its product range to include large ADTs (articulated dump trucks) for the first time. The full range of Terex Trucks products will be available from Molson Equipment in England and Wales, with Molson Young Plant Sales looking after the brand in Scotland.

Molson Group adds that the addition of Terex Trucks’ ADTs further cements its position as a single source s

Forbes has ranked construction materials giant CEMEX as the world’s 15th best-regarded company on its third annual list of the World’s Best Regarded Companies.

Forbes partnered with Statista to cull its annual list of the world’s 2,000 largest public companies down to the top 250 best-regarded businesses. The companies were judged on their trustworthiness, social conduct, the strength of their products and services, and how they fare as employers. To gather data, Statista surveyed 15,000 respondents from

A Tarmac shift manager rescued a stranded motorist after the car she was driving in got stuck in flood water near to Mountsorrel quarry in Leicestershire, central England.

Scott Green, who works at the Tarmac-owned quarry, said he saw the vehicle attempting to drive through the water under the A6 in Quorn, before he dropped his daughter off at school.

He went back to the scene and discovered the woman had become stranded. Mr Green said she was frightened and still had her seat belt on with water up a

Scottish-based Skene Group Construction Services has added a fifty tonne Volvo EC480E long reach excavator to its quarry plant fleet.

The new EC480E has been equipped with a 7-metre boom and a 4.8-metre dipper arm, which is the longest possible combination of digging equipment for this model of excavator.

This was specified to give maximum flexibility and improve utilisation within the quarry at Glenrothes, Fife. The machine has a forward reach of 13.3 metres, a digging depth of 9.2 metres and a pra

Construction materials supplier Aggregate Industries has acquired Leicestershire, UK-based independent readymix concrete provider Maxi Readymix Concrete.

Aggregate Industries says the acquisition is in line with its Strategy 2022 - “Building for Growth” and will allow the company to strengthen its market position within a region of the UK that offers growth opportunities and further develop its strong customer focus. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Guy Edwards, CEO of Aggregate Industries

European construction equipment group CECE and some of its member companies have met with members of the European Parliament to discuss EU policy on issues such as sustainability and competitiveness.

On September 17 and 18 the CECE public affairs team accompanied a delegation of member companies’ representatives to Strasbourg during the Plenary Assembly to meet MEPs that have been elected for the 2019-2024 parliamentary term. The delegation was composed of representatives of Caterpillar, Volvo CE and Kom

A forthcoming UK conference, Resilient Housing, a collaboration between Modern Masonry, Brick Development Association, The Building Centre and The Concrete Centre will be providing the latest guidance and technical expertise to enable the design and delivery of long-lasting and high-performance homes.

This one-day event, free to attend for delegates, on Tuesday 15 October 2019 will address how housing can be designed and delivered to respond to:

• Warming climate and overheating risk - the greater

Metso has completed its purchase of Canadian mobile crushing and screening equipment manufacturer McCloskey.

The acquisition completed on October 1 and Finland-based Metso says will expand its offering in the aggregates industry globally and strengthen its customer reach, especially to the general contractor segment.

“This acquisition is an excellent strategic fit for Metso, because it strengthens our aggregates business and balances our traditionally mining-focused minerals portfolio,” said Pekka Va

JCB chairman Lord Bamford has officially opened the new headquarters for its German operations.

The off-highway equipment giant says that Germany is one of its most important European businesses. It adds that the new 12 acre site in Colgone cost £50mn and is one of the biggest investments in its history.

The facility is triple the size of JCB Germany’s former HQ in Cologne and is situated at the heart of Germany’s largest industrial area, the Rhine-Ruhr zone.

The new base includes offices for 75 e

Simo Sääskilahti has been appointed senior VP, finance for the valves business area at Metso.

He starts in the new position on October 15, and will report to Olli Isotalo, president of the valves business area.

He has also been named as the future CEO of the Neles valves and flow control business that will come into being after the forthcoming merger of Metso and Outotec (see below* for details of the transaction).

During the course of creating Neles Corporation, Sääskilahti will be nominated chie

Tarmac is celebrating after winning a prestigious rail industry award for the successful UK-first introduction of giant off-loading machinery which is driving productivity and efficiency.

The company secured its coveted prize by coming first in the ‘Innovation and Technical Development’ category at the Rail Freight Group (RFG) Awards for the site redesign at its Battersea concrete depot, which included the installation of the first Liebherr LH80C ‘Supergrab’ Gantry Materials Handler in the country.

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