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A CEMEX concrete plant in Panama has earned Responsible Sourcing Certification from the Concrete Sustainability Council (CSC).

The building materials company says its Panama Norte plant is the first facility in the ready-mix concrete sector in Latin America to receive this designation.

Launched in 2017 by 11 founding members - including the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, the Portland Cement Association and CEMEX - the CSC is intended to improve the transparency of the concrete se

Brazilian ornamemtal stone extraction and processing company Guidoni Group has bought two quarries in the country.

The quarries are Via Lactea and Emerald Green, which supply two new stones.

Guidoni Group, which is based in Espìrito Santo, now has almost 50 granite, quartzite and exotic stone quarries. The company is an exporter of blocks and slabs offering the international market a range of coverings for different projects.

Located in Santo Antônio do Grama in Minas Gerais state, the Via Lactea

UK level measurement and silo protection supplier Hycontrol is running a series of silo safety training courses.

The courses, which have been audited and accredited by the Mineral Products Qualifications Council (MPQC), cover all aspects of silo pressure safety during tanker deliveries and essential maintenance of safety equipment.

Hycontrol has worked with the quarry and aggregates sectors for over thirty years in the supply of pressure equipment in the UK. Having always provided training to custome

2018 sales at Metso increased by 32% in constant currencies from the previous year.

The Finnish quarrying and mining equipment maker has issued a financial statements review covering the 2018 calandar year and the fourth quarter. The review states that market activity continued to be healthy in the fourth quarter of 2018. Sales in Q4 increased 23% in constant currencies.

Orders received by the company were up by in 2018 by 17% in 2018 to €3,499mn (€2,982mn in 2017).

Operating profit (EBIT) for 2018

British quarry operator E & JW Glendinning has taken delivery of a new Volvo R70D rigid hauler

The vehicle is being used to haul blasted material to the primary crusher at the company’s Linhay Hill Quarry at Ashburton, Devon.

“We conducted a competitive evaluation of the rigid hauler market and since we have over twenty Volvo branded machines operating here at Linhay and our other facilities, considered the best choice of hauler would be the new Volvo R70D,” said Richard Webb, operations manager of qu

Aggregate Industries has introduced the new Strike+ range of high early strength concretes, specifically designed for use in structural, void-fill, pavement and track bed applications.

The range is available in four different strength settings and offers high ultimate strength in various levels of consistency, making it suitable for use with a number of placement methods including pump, skip and direct.

Aggregate Industries says the range is suitable for construction projects where durability is key

Aggregates and mining equipment maker Haver & Boecker has made three new appointments to expand its direct sales coverage in the United States.

Brian Block, Wayne Knight and Scott McMaster have been appointed as certified sales managers for the US.

Block will serve Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico; Knight will cover Arkansas Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas; and McMaster will serve Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York Pennsylvania and Ohio.

Chinese cement and plant construction group CNBM and France-based engineering firm Fives have signed an international cooperation agreement.

The two companies have defined areas of collaboration where each can benefit from the other's expertise and technologies. These include opportunities to partner in plant upgrade, plant expansion and new plants to implement Fives' technologies, such as FCB Horomill grinding system, FCB Pyro-line and Pillard burners to reach the highest level of energy efficiency, emi

CEMEX says that its 2018 consolidated net like-for-like sales for full-year 2018 increased by 6% on the previous year to US$14.4bn.

The building materials giant also posted a 4% increase in consolidated net sales during the fourth quarter of 2018 to US$3.5bn, compared with the same quarter in 2017.

CEMEX attributed the increase in Q4 consolidated net sales to higher prices of its products, in local currency terms in all of its regions, as well as higher volumes mainly in the ready-mix and aggregates b

Sandvik Group has announced that Lars Engström, president of its mining and rock technology business, will leave the company during 2019 after his successor has been finalised.

Engström has been a member of Sandvik Group’s executive management since 2016 and headed up the Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology business area.

Sandvik says that during his time at the helm Engström has successfully improved the performance of the mining and rock technology business and its divisions in accordance with the g

Sweden-based Epiroc received orders worth SEK39,400m (€3,783m) in full-year 2018, up by 16% on the SEK33,831m (€3,248m) total for the previous year.

The company says it achieved "strong growth in both top and bottom line" in the first year it has operated as Epiroc.

Epiroc's parent company Atlas Copco announced in 2017 that its business would be split into two from 1st Janaury 2018. Atlas Copco now focuses solely on industrial customers while Epiroc caters for customers involved in mining, infrastruc

The Mineral Products Association (MPA) and its members are supporters of the National Drowning Prevention Strategy and are committed to a collaborative approach in keeping members of the public safe.

MPA is represented on the National Water Safety Forum’s Inland Waters Group and works with its members and other organisations to raise awareness of the hazards associated with open water and ways of mitigating these risks.

As part of its commitment to water safety, MPA will be promoting to its member

Pattison Sand is a family owned sand and aggregates company based in Iowa, the United States. Producing a diverse range of products, they service several industries including infrastructure and construction.

After successfully using a number of Weir Minerals products at their site, Pattison Sand wanted a custom designed plant capable of producing more than seven materials: concrete stone, road rock and base material, asphalt stone, asphalt chips, railroad ballast and manufactured sand. This was a challen

Lafarge Cement, part of leading UK construction materials supplier Aggregate Industries, has achieved BS EN ISO50001:2018 in Energy Management Systems after demonstrating its ongoing commitment to energy efficiency.

As the latest version of the standard for Energy Management Systems, BS EN ISO50001:2018 requires companies to show continuous improvement in reducing the energy intensity of their operations.

The certification is formal recognition of Lafarge Cement’s high standard of energy governance