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The Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) has adopted a new logo that is intended to represent the energy and change taking place in the off-road equipment industry through new technologies and opportunities.

The North American-based international trade group represents off-road equipment manufacturers and suppliers, and has more than one thousand members.

“The launch of our new logo embodies the spirit of AEM to move the off-road equipment industry forward,” said AEM president Dennis Slater.

Metso has won a significant order to deliver a large-scale iron ore pellet plant and related engineering services to Tata Steel for the expansion of the Kalinganagar operation located in Odisha state in India. The order has been booked in Metso's fourth quarter 2018 orders received.

The new pellet plant will be equipped with capability to utilise a dual fuel burner and a burner management system that will enable the use of iron ore feed from different sources, optimising the overall cost of production,

Command Alkon is showcasing COMMANDoptimize, its cutting-edge dispatch and logistics optimisation engine, at World of Concrete 2019, being staged 22-25 January at the Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, USA.

Suitable for applications in many industries including quarrying and ready-mixed concrete production, COMMANDoptimize is a powerful algorithmic engine that augments human decision making by considering millions of data elements in real-time and suggesting the most efficient plan for using the re

Building materials company CEMEX has announced a number of changes to its senior level organisation, effective from February 1, 2019.

Juan Romero Torres, current president of CEMEX Mexico, has been appointed executive vice president of global commercial development. CEMEX says this new role aims to capitalise on the significant progress the company has achieved in its customer centricity strategy, providing it with a formal structure that will allow new opportunities to add value to customers and markets

Hyundai has appointed Agritrac Exports as its the new construction equipment dealer for Scotland.

Commenting on the appointment, Tony Reeves, the South Korean global construction and quarrying equipment manufacturing giant’s regional sales manager for UK and Ireland, said: “As part of HRN Tractors, Agritrac offers a well-established network of depots across Scotland which will offer our Hyundai customers the very highest levels of service, parts and sales provision.”

Agritrac, which is part of agricul

Superior Industries, an American-based manufacturer and global supplier of bulk material processing and handling systems, is seeking new relationships with construction equipment dealers and distributors at bauma 2019. Before the event, distribution representatives looking to meet with Superior at bauma are asked to complete an online form at www.superior-ind.com/bauma-2019.

“Outside of the Americas, we’ve built successful distributor relationships in Australia, New Zealand, Russia and other regions,” sa

Construction work on the new £50 million (€56mn) JCB Cab Systems factory is forging ahead as it targets a summer opening.

The shell of the 32,520m² plant next to JCB Heavy Products and the World Parts Centre at Uttoxeter is on course to be completed slightly ahead of schedule ready for high-tech production line facilities to be installed from March onwards.

The investment, one of the biggest in the company’s history, will create the most advanced and productive cab facility in the world with a compu

US aggregate equipment manufacturer McLanahan says it will complete the acquistion of Northern Ireland-based Anaconda within the next two months upon legal closing.

Anaconda specialises in the design and manufacture of mobile tracked compact screening, recycling, loading and conveying equipment for the aggregate, organics and recycling industries.

In the past 10 years, Anaconda has sold over 1,200 units into more than 50 countries across six continents. The company, which was founded in 2008 by Alista

Australia-based NQ Minerals says the commissioning of its Tasmania-based Hellyer processing plant has now been completed and that during the fourth quarter of 2018, the company produced 3,991 tonnes of lead, 1,537 tonnes of zinc, and 4,291 tonnes of pyrite. The haul generated around US$4.1 million (AUD$5.7mn) in sales. NQ Minerals is now consistently producing all three concentrates, with sales said by the mining firm to be occurring on a weekly basis.

“With commissioning substantially complete, NQ is no

Continental has appointed Reinhard Klant as its new Earthmoving product line manager for Commercial Specialty Tires (CST).

Klant joined the German sector giant back in 1988. Since then, he has held several positions in international marketing and sales management. In 2004, he joined the Continental Commercial Specialty Tire unit. Most recently, he was responsible for the Benelux markets and a key account manager at Commercial Specialty Tires.

Klant succeeds Christian Luther, who has recently taken o

The launch of Volvo´s EC200D excavator came at a perfect time for construction and development company Sunwest of the Philippines. Volvo´s new speedy machine is helping them grow and keep up with increasing customer demands.

Over the past few years, Sunwest Resources based in Legazpi City in the Albay province of the Philippines, has gradually added increasingly larger numbers of Volvo machines to its fleet. The latest addition is more than 80 units of Volvo´s EC200D excavator, which Sunwest uses at it

Aggregates software company Command Alkon has hired Doug Moore as vice president of cloud platform to support its policy of building solutions in the cloud to improve communications and collaboration between contractors and suppliers.

He will be responsible for the cloud platform and drive key cloud technology topics such as scalability, security, analytics, and information access.

Prior to joining Command Alkon, Moore served in a number of roles at several software and technology companies. Most r

With traffic levels on Britain’s roads reaching record levels and heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) traffic identified as the second fastest growing traffic type in recent years, Aggregate Industries is calling for more to be done to drive road safety forward in construction.

Official statistics estimate that 327 billion vehicle miles were travelled on UK roads during the period of July 2017 to June 2018 – a 2% increase over the last two years – with HGV traffic making up 17.2 billion vehicle miles. This has

The Mineral Products Association (MPA) has welcomed the National Infrastructure Commission’s (NIC) Interim Report, the ‘Future of Freight’, notably the highlighting of the how the operation of the UK planning system can restrict the operation of key aggregates facilities such as wharves and rail depots.

MPA evidence to the NIC had indicated that the significant use of rail and water transport by the aggregates industry could be constrained by inappropriate development adjacent to wharves and depots, for