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Cement plant technology and equipment company KHD Humboldt Wedag International has joined the World Cement Association (WCA) an associate corporate member.

The 160-year-old company is based in Cologne, Germany and provides a range of clean technology solutions. It has over 650 employees worldwide, including in growing markets such as India, China, Turkey, and Russia, as well as in Europe and the USA.

The WCA says the company is driving innovation in energy-efficient and environmentally-friendly produc

Terreal, a French construction materials producer, saw its first half of 2019 turnover rise by an impressive 20% to €224mn. The eye-catching rise is said to be thanks to the acquisition of GSE Intégration, an integrated photovoltaic systems specialist, in September 2018.

Terreal reported an EBITDA (earnings before interest, tax, depreciation & amortisation) of €43.6mn in January-June 2019, +9.6% on a like-for-like basis.

According to Terreal CEO Laurent Musy, 2019 is set to be another year of growin

Epiroc's production plant in Essen, Germany has been certified to the ISO 50001 energy saving standard.

Increasing demand for process automation across industries is fuelling the greater use of cement and mortar testing equipment in the global construction sector, according to new research.

Titled ‘The Cement and Mortar Testing Equipment Market: Global Industry Analysis 2013 - 2017 and Opportunity Assessment 2018 – 2027’, the research report by Future Market Insights (FMI), a global business market intelligence consultancy, says the global market for cement and mortar testing equipment is likely to exceed

Rapid International, the innovative international concrete mixing equipment and technology manufacturer, recently celebrated its 50th anniversary.

Established in County Armagh, Northern Ireland in 1969, the company is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of mixing technology for the concrete, construction, mining, environmental, nuclear and tunnelling industries.

In 1969, at a period in Northern Ireland’s history when political and sectarian violence were commonplace, Rapid’s founders, Robert (Be

Hanson has invested more than £7 million (€7.74mn) in a new asphalt plant at its Allington site near Maidstone, Kent, South-East England, to improve service to its customers and increase production capacity, sustainability and efficiency.

The Mineral Products Association (MPA) has welcomed UK Chancellor Sajid Javid’s pledge of more than £600mn of new infrastructure spending, but reemphasised its frustration over the amount of time taken to deliver projects.

Responding to the Chancellor’s Spending Round 2019 statement to Parliament, which included the new infrastructure cash commitment, Jerry McLaughlin, executive director of Economics and Public Affairs at the MPA, said: “The MPA welcomes the Chancellor’s statement that ‘rebuilding nation

LiuGong unveiled its new sixth-generation F-series excavators on the first day of the BICES 2019 exhibition in Beijing, China.

Compared with previous generations of LiuGong excavators, F-series models have more models and size classes, including standard ones for the Chinese market and short-tail and zero-tail swing ones for the Western European and North American markets.

LiuGong F-series excavators comply with the latest emissions regulations in China and Europe. The series has 15 product sub-platf

Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology has introduced two new solutions to reduce noise emissions in surface top hammer drilling.

The global portland cement market is tipped to reach a volume of 5.9 billion tonnes by 2024, registering a CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of 4.3% during 2019-2024. The global market volume stood at 4.6 billion tonnes in 2018.

The forecasted growth of the portland cement market, which stood at 4.6 billion tonnes in 2018, is predicted by ResearchandMarkets.com’s new study titled ‘The ‘Portland Cement Market: Global Industry Trends, Share, Size, Growth, Opportunity and Forecast 2019-2024’.

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The Global Cement and Concrete (GCCA) will hold its global annual conference in Singapore on Thursday 10 October 2019.

The morning of the event will focus on innovations in cement and concrete and will be opened by Lars Sudmann, widely recognised for his TEDx talk “The Spaghetti Principle of Innovation.” The morning panel sessions on cement and concrete innovation will each bring together a range of expertise from academics, suppliers and practitioners on the innovations that will be central to the futu