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Greece-based Titan Cement Group saw first quarter 2019 sales worth €363 million - a 12% increase compared to the same period of 2018. The sales rise is said to be largely due to the robust U.S. market and growth in south-eastern Europe. Titan Cement Group’s improvement in Earnings Before Interest, Tax, Depreciation and Amortization (EBITDA) was limited to 2%, reaching €44 million, as challenging conditions in both Egypt and Turkey impacted operational profitability. The group’s net result after minority int

Euro Auctions' recent Leeds, England, sale set new records. Indicating a strong market and increased global demand for industrial plant, quarrying, construction and agricultural machinery, 5,133 lots went under the hammer at the 15-17 May 2019 auction.

For the first project, the Mexican-headquartered global building materials market giant supplied ready-mixed concrete for new foundations of an infrastructure project along the railway line in Berlin’s Alt-Hohenschoenhausen district. For the final kilometres to the construction site, CEMEX concrete trucks travelled piggyback on a low-floor wagon.

For Deutsche Bahn AG, construction company Heicon Service GmbH & Co. KG built new foundations for overhead line masts in Alt-Hohenschoenhausen. For 12 of these

Chinese construction and quarrying machinery giant LiuGong has completed its share purchase of Portsmouth, England-based Construction Plant & Machinery Sales (southeast) Limited (CPMS). In doing so, it establishes Liuzhou, China-based LiuGong’s first international retail operation.

LiuGong’s European headquarters in Warsaw, Poland, will assume responsibility for the UK based direct sales operation.
The former shareholders of CPMS will remain as directors of the business, ensuring customers a seamless b

Engcon, a leading global market supplier of tiltrotators, welcomed excavator operators from across the UK to its first Big Dig Day of 2019.
The event, which took place at Northamptonshire’s Wicksteed Park on the 26th and 27th of April, attracted nearly 100 visitors and their families, gave owner operators the chance to get hands-on experience with Engcon’s market-leading range of tiltrotators and hydraulic attachments.

The full-suite of Engcon’s products were available to test throughout the day, fitte

Family-owned business Feiring Bruk, which operates primarily in eastern Norway where it has 10 sites extracting and producing crushed stone, gravel and asphalt, has claimed an 88 per cent reduction in fines as a result of its wet processing plant commissioned with CDE.

Doosan is introducing new ready kits for its 14-30 tonne range of wheeled and crawler excavators to meet what it says is the increasing demand for machine guidance systems from its excavator customers.

The kits can be ordered direct from the company’s factory through Doosan Smart Solutions for use with Leica, Trimble and Xsite 2D and 3D machine guidance systems. Doosan says its ready kits can differ according to the model and the region concerned.

The company adds that its collaboration with the thre

Terex Trucks says it is expanding its operations in Russia in response to the construction boom in the country.

The Motherwell, Scotland-based manufacturer of articulated off-highway dump trucks – together with its exclusive dealer, Mining Eurasia – says that it wants to bring its quarrying and mining vehicles to more customers in new locations.

In 2018, the Russian economy grew faster than it had done for more than five years – largely due to the uptick in construction. The Siberian natural gas pipel

Members of the Hillhead team will be at this year’s Plantworx exhibition – which takes place at the East of England Arena, Peterborough, England, from 11–13 June 2019 – and you can come and meet them on stand AB9 – located in the Indoor Arena that visitors pass through after registration.

Hillhead is the UK’s largest construction, quarrying and recycling exhibition and it returns to its home at Tarmac’s well-known, non-operational Hillhead quarry, near Buxton in Derbyshire, England, from 23–25 June 2020.

The Mineral Products Association (MPA) together with the Planning Officers’ Society (POS) has launched a new UK Minerals Safeguarding Practice Guidance which explains how local and mineral planning authorities should protect mineral resources and infrastructure from development through the planning system.

A sufficient supply of minerals and mineral products is essential to the economy and our quality of life.

Mineral resources are not evenly distributed and can only be worked where they occur natur

HAVER & BOECKER India is the new name of the German quarrying plant company’s Indian subsidiary, previously known as HAVER IBAU India.

In 2008, HAVER IBAU India started trading as a 100% subsidiary of HAVER & BOECKER’s machinery division (Germany) and its daughter company IBAU HAMBURG (Germany). “Our initial focus was the Indian cement industry, and this we wanted to show also in the name. With HAVER & BOECKER and IBAU HAMBURG we combined the names of the two leading companies in the field of (un-)loadin

Over 150 attendees from over 70 different organisations including the minerals industry, national agencies, local government, NGOs and specialist consultancies attended the annual joint Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) / Mineral Products Association (MPA) mineral planning conference in Manchester, north-west England.

As city-regions across the country develop ambitious growth strategies, a reliable and secure supply of minerals is more important than ever. The annual conference brought together all

A new FlexiROC D55 rig from Epiroc has been delivered to Criggion quarry in Wales.

The quarry is operated by EPC-UK, which specialises in the manufacture, storage and distribution of commercial explosives, and drilling and blasting services. The company says the purchase of the new rig continues its investment in its drilling capabilities. The FlexiROC is one of seven new Epiroc rigs that form part of a scheduled renewal of EPC’s fleet during 2019.

The D55 has high-performance capabilities in both qua