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A new report from the Portland Cement Association (PCA), titled The Real Value of Resilient Construction, stresses the importance of resiliency in construction and design.

The report demonstrates through historical data, evidence from external sources, and comparisons of building materials that resilient design and construction built with concrete leads to longer lasting buildings due to concrete’s ability to stand up to normal wear and tear and resistance to extreme weather events.

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Volvo CE claims its forthcoming EC300E Hybrid excavator will improve fuel efficiency by up to 17%.

The EC300E, which is now entering field testing, generates 'free' energy via a boom-down motion which charges energy-storing accumulators that are used to power the hydraulic pump.

Volvo CE says the EC300E is unlike other systems that capture the swing energy of an excavator's superstructure to electrically assist the engine. Its hydraulic hybrid harvests 'free' energy generated by the down motion of the

The Mineral Products Association (MPA) has published a briefing ‘Sand Supply – a UK Perspective on a Global Issue’ as a contribution to the current global debate regarding the availability, access to and consumption of sand.

In recent years there has been increasing attention on the demand for sand, the potential for global shortages and the consequences of unregulated extraction as the link has been made between the societal demands for homes and infrastructure and the associated pressures that this ca

A leading Russian limestone quarry is said to have achieved an annual saving of €7,900 after switching its Hitachi excavators to ExxonMobil’s Mobil DTE 10 Excel 46 hydraulic oil. The use of the high performance hydraulic oil, which is specifically formulated for use in modern mobile equipment, extended oil drain intervals by 25% and also reduced filter replacements.

The mining company was having to drain its existing hydraulic oil every 4,000 hours but was aware that a better performance might be possibl

Metso has successfully completed its acquisition of HighService Service, the service division of the Chilean mining engineering, construction and technology company HighService Corp.

HighService Service offers its customers a variety of services from maintenance to commissioning and remote monitoring. The company has approximately 1,000 employees and it operates in Chile, Argentina and Brazil.

"This acquisition expands our service offering in the Chilean and Pacific Rim mining markets and supports Met

FLSmidth has launched the ECS/UptimeGo downtime analysis solution designed to increase mining and cement production plant uptime by identifying the causes of equipment failures.

Unplanned downtime costs businesses billions of dollars each year globally. For cement and mining customers, the impact of plant and equipment failures can be enormous: production stoppages and reduced productivity.

ECS/UptimeGo’s real-time dashboards and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) enable the measurement of the real imp

With the ever-increasing complexity of demands that health and safety places on the quarrying industry, the UK’s Institute of Quarrying (IQ) has completely overhauled its go-to reference book ‘Health & Safety Law in Quarries’.

It has now been produced in two volumes; the first volume covers the Health and Safety and Work Act and the requirements of the Quarries Regulations (1999). The second volume covers other related legislation and relevant case law.

The original Health and Safety Law in Quarries b

CEMEX has supplied around 16,000m³ of ready-mixed concrete for the expansion of the Continental Automotive Group’s technology development center in Regensburg, Germany.

CEMEX Germany produced different types of products such as concrete of various compressive strengths and cement with low hydration heat development for the construction project on Siemensstraße in Regensburg. With the biggest order produced by CEMEX during 2018, the total quantity supplied amounted to approximately 16,000m³.

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FLSmidth, a Denmark-headquartered globally renowned supplier of systems, equipment, services and products to the cement and minerals industries, saw its order intake during Q1 2019 total DKK 5.6bn (€750.02mn), including two large cement orders from Paraguay and Vietnam. The group’s order backlog grew to DKK 17.8bn (€2.384bn), its highest level since 2013 and up from DKK 13.9bn (€1.861bn) at the same time last year.

Speaking about the first quarter of 2019 figures, FL Smidth Group CEO Thomas Schulz said:

The Mineral Products Association’s (MPA) national Mineral Products 2019 Conference will take place on 24 June 2019 at the QEII Conference Centre, Westminster, London.

With the theme of 'Planning Long… Embracing Change', leading speakers will address the impact of a more digital future, changing UK politics, and Britain’s economic and energy outlook. It will also focus on two key areas for the mineral products industry: the current innovation and ongoing evolution of construction, and international and na

In a bid to become customers’ number one choice for uptime in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) has assembled a dedicated team to proactively support Volvo dealers in providing solutions to problems that can lead to reduced uptime.

Located in Volvo CE’s EMEA regional headquarters in Eskilstuna, Sweden, the new Uptime Center will assist the entire Volvo dealer network in Europe, the Middle East and Africa in keeping customers’ machines up and running.

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Doosan Infracore has formed a strategic partnership with American company Palantir Technologies as part of the South Korean off-highway equipment giant’s effort to accelerate digital transformation.

Palantir is a Silicon Valley-based big data unicorn (start-up firm with a current valuation of US$1bn or more) that provides big data analysis platform to organisations in various fields, ranging from public sector to finance to manufacturing, to be used for arresting criminals, preventing financial risk, im