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Building materials giant LafargeHolcim is taking part in the project to build Egypt’s new capital city, which is currently under construction 45 kilometres outside of Cairo.

The city - which has not yet been named and is referred to as the new administrative capital (NAC) – will become the country’s new administrative and financial centre with around 5 million inhabitants.

Since the beginning of the construction works LafargeHolcim has supported several of its projects, with a total contract value f

Continental has launched a new cut-resistant compound for its RDT-Master tyre that is used on Rigid Dump Trucks (RDTs).

The compound was developed for rough and abrasive applications where tyres have to withstand sharp gravel, rocks and stones.

Continental says that demands placed on off-the-road tyres (especially at mining and construction sites) are constantly increasing, but at the same time tyres must be individually customised to their respective fields of application. It adds that the new RDT-M

CEMEX has reached a binding agreement to sell its aggregates and ready-mixed concrete assets in the North and North-West regions of Germany to GP Günter Papenburg AG for approximately €87 million.

The Mexican headquartered global building materials supplier currently expects to sign a final agreement for the sale of assets during April 2019 and close this divestment during the second quarter of 2019.

The CEMEX assets in Germany being divested consist of four aggregates quarries and four ready-mix faci

The Construction Products Association (CPA), the trade body representing construction product manufacturers and distributors in the UK, is to restructure its senior management.

The CPA says the restructure comes amid a current market environment that has been very challenging as new companies and its existing members look at reducing discretionary spending.

The CPA says that, facing up to this challenge, it has been managing its overheads, removing and reducing costs wherever possible, and also exami

HM Treasury has set out the terms of reference for the government review of the controversial UK Aggregates Levy.

The review was first announced in February, and HM Treasury says it will report back and announce any next steps from the review by the end of the year.

The Aggregates Levy was introduced in the UK as part of the Finance Act 2001 and came into force in April 2002. It is a tax imposed upon the commercial exploitation of rock, sand and gravel in the UK. The levy has been largely unchanged si

Liebherr-France SAS in Colmar, north-east France, has put a new assembly line into operation. It is based on the principles of lean management, and will thus contribute to further improvements in quality and productivity. Overall, the company has invested €5 million in the XY-metre-long production line.

The main task of the new line is to produce the latest generation of Liebherr crawler excavators, which was launched on the market worldwide this year as the ‘Generation 8’. The product line consists of t

Molson Group has acquired Finlay Scotland Limited, a long-established equipment Dealer of Terex Finlay products in Scotland and the Scottish Islands. Through this acquisition, Molson Group has now successfully secured the distribution rights for the complete range of Terex Finlay mobile crushing, screening and conveying equipment across Great Britain. The acquisition follows on from the recent purchase of Finlay Plant (UK) Ltd in June 2018, and the subsequent rebranding of that business in England and Wales

The new standard developed by the International Organization for Standardisation (ISO), ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety, is the focus of this month’s ‘Lunch & Learn’ webinar from the Institute of Quarrying (IQ).

Wayne Darwin MIQ, a health, safety and environment expert at Tarmac, will deliver the session on Thursday 28 March, between 12:30-13:00. Darwin is involved in a project team implementing ISO 45001 across the Tarmac business and will share his professional knowledge with attendees.

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Thamesport Cement has applied to build and operate a major cement manufacturing plant on the Isle of Grain in Kent, UK.

The company submitted a planning application to Medway Council in February which identified a suitable area for the plant on the London Thamesport Container Port facility on the Isle of Grain at the mouth of the River Medway.

Thamesport Cement is backed by Cem'In'Eu, a French startup that describes itself as "the first European network of regional modular cement plants".

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