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Philippines companies ATN Holdings and AlphaRock Mining have agreed a five-year contract to supply rock aggregates for government infrastructure projects in the country.

ATN said in a stock exchange disclosure that the partnership with AlphaRock would double the amount of aggregates it produces, with an annual volume of 2.4mn tonnes and potential revenues of US$227.9mn (P12bn).

It added that the contract will meet high aggregates demand from Philippines government infrastructure projects, particularl

CASE Construction Equipment has appointed Nicola D’Arpino as head of sales and marketing for Europe.

D’Arpino is a highly experienced construction industry professional with a 16-year career at CNH Industrial Group.

He will succeed Jose Cuadrado who moves to the position of VP in after-market solutions.

The appointment of D'Arpino follows changes to CNH Industrial’s global executive committee made in January 2019. The company says the changes will enhance its organisational focus on five global op

Cementos Argos posted increases in its net income and EBITDA (earnings before Income tax, depreciation and amortisation) during 2018.

The Colombia-based company - a concrete and cement supplying subsidiary of Grupo Argos that serves the Latin America, US and Caribbean markets - sold 16 million tonnes of cement and 10.3 million cubic metres of concrete during the year, which represented revenues of US$2.68bn (8.4 trillion Colombian pesos). It obtained an EBITDA of US$0.49mn (CP1.54bn), with growth of 8% a

Bulk material processing and handling systems manufacturer Superior Industries has appointed Cary Octavio as its new territory sales manager for conveyor components in the northeast United States.

Octavio is an industry veteran with almost 30 years of sales and service experience in bulk material handling markets.

“Cary likes to get his hands dirty and comes to Superior with an incredible amount of technical conveying experience,” said Mike McFerren, conveyor components sales manager at Superior Indus

Year-on-year UK aggregates sales volumes increased by 2% last year, but the outlook for 2019 is likely to be flat.

The prediction was made by Jerry McLaughlin, executive director of economic and public affairs at the Mineral Products Association, to the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Mining and Quarrying in the House of Commons earlier this month.

Giving an update to MPs about the effects of the current economic situation on the sector, McLaughlin said that the housing market had been going well,

With the help of a fleet of 40-plus Volvo Construction Equipment machines, Wormall Civil has grown from a specialist underground services installation contractor to a full-service civil construction engineering company.

Wormall Civil, a civil construction engineering company based in Cardup, Australia, purchased its first Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) L70 wheeled loader when the movie Crocodile Dundee was still showing in cinemas. Since 1986, the family-owned company has grown through hard wo

EPC-UK, a market leader within UK commercial explosives and blasting services provision for industries including quarrying, has officially opened its new bulk emulsion facility at the company’s Rough Close Works site in Derbyshire, England. Designed to deliver the necessary infrastructure required to enhance the safety of the company’s emulsion manufacturing process, the state-of-the-art site - which is a result of the company’s biggest investment in 25 years - was formally unveiled by Olivier Obst, chairma

Continental, the German off-highway tyre maker and tyre performance technology solution firm, is taking yet another stride toward servitisation at this year’s bauma, which takes place April 8–14 in Munich. The company is presenting its new ContiLogger consultancy concept, which incorporates tires, hardware, software and data in an innovative service concept. This allows Continental to link end customer and Continental expertise even more closely.

When using the ContiLogger service concept, a Continental

Tiltrotator manufacturer Engcon is investing a total of SEK90mn (over £7.5mn) to triple its production capabilities.

The Sweden-based company says the major investment programme is part of its commitment to accelerate global development of the tiltrotator market and to meet strong demand for Engcon’s products and systems.

The investment will include new CNC machines that use pre-programmed computer software installed at Engcon’s production facilities in Sweden over the next three years, allowing the

Aggregate Industries has achieved recommendation for ISO 44001 certification for Collaborative Business Relationship Management Systems.

The UK materials supplier said that it was awarded the certification company-wide by the British Standards Institute for successfully demonstrating – against a set of stringent criteria – a competent and efficient degree of relationship management across a variety of projects, which include a multitude of internal business areas and external partners.

Paddy Murphy, M

CEMEX says it is making significant progress in its divestment initiative.

The global building materials group has closed or reached binding agreements for sales of approximately US$750mn, which represents 50% of the low end of the December 2020 divestment target range.

The disposal programme is part of the “A Stronger CEMEX” enhancement plan that was announced in July 2018. The plan includes a US$1.5bn to US$2bn asset disposal target by the end of 2020. Since then, CEMEX has announced the divestment

Dutch commodities trading firm Vitol has agreed to acquire a further 50% of VALT, the bitumen (asphalt) joint-venture it established in 2016 with Sargeant Marine, a Netherlands-based asphalt trading, storage and transportation business.

On completion, VALT will be 100% owned by Vitol and will be integrated into Vitol’s core trading business.

Vitol says the acquisition will make it a leader in the trading, storage and marine transportation of asphalt products around the world, with a dedicated fleet of