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Northern Ireland-based CDE says it is on course to move into its new Centre of Excellence in the first half of 2019 after the developer handed over the new campus to the company.

The wet materials processing equipment firm adds that the new offices in Cookstown will enable it to continue to expand its team, providing space for over 400 staff across several areas including engineering, product development and business services.

CDE claims its new HQ will be the world’s largest campus dedicated to the w

The Cement Company of Northern Nigeria (CCNN) has told Nigerian business and trade media that its plan to merge with Kalambaina Cement Company (Kalambaina) has obtained legal and shareholder approval.

It is being widely reported in the West African country that the CCNN-Kalambaina merger will lead to an increase in the enlarged company’s cement production to 2 million tonnes/year.

The merger deal is subject to approval by regulatory authorities including the Nigerian Stock Exchange and the Security a

CRH, the Ireland-headquartered global building materials, giant, yesterday launched the fourth and final phase of its €1 billion share buyback programme. It follows a deal struck with Swiss financial services firm UBS to buy back on behalf of CRH €200mn of the Irish company’s ordinary shares listed on Euronext Dublin and the London Stock Exchange.

Due to end no later than 29 March 2019, the conclusion of the final CRH share repurchase phase will complete the share buyback programme first announced on 25

Eugenio Bernardo K. Barquet Becerra has been appointed as the new general counsel of CEMEX Latam Holdings (CLH).

Barquet Becerra, who has 20 years of legal experience, replaces Ana María Gómez Montes. His experience includes more than 17 years at CEMEX group, where he has worked as legal director within CEMEX's global corporate office since 2016, looking at different issues in administrative matters, real estate, energy, supply and litigations.

He holds a law degree from Universidad de Anáhuac in Mexi

Liebherr has revealed details of the latest product developments and innovations that it will be showcasing at April's giant bauma 2019 construction equipment show.

Products on display at the Munich event from April 8-14 will include new offerings in tower cranes, mobile and crawler cranes, earthmoving, material handling, deep foundation, concrete technologies and mining.

Liebherr will debut a new series of tower cranes with fibre ropes which will be available for sale starting in April. The company s

The Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA) has published its first six sustainability guidelines.

The GCCA says its guidelines include a number of simple, reliable and representative KPIs against which full member companies must monitor and report on their sustainability performance across a number of key activities.

The guidelines include monitoring and reporting CO2 emissions and other emissions from cement manufacturing; co-processing of fuels and materials; safety; and water usage.

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New Zealand-based Gaddum Construction is using two TA300 Terex Trucks articulated haulers to move end material and metal for road-building as well as shift logs.

Gaddum Construction has been carrying out a hauling project on the steep slopes and slippery surfaces of Omaio Forest. The company, which specialises in the construction of infrastructure on challenging terrain, has been using two TA300 articulated haulers from Terex Trucks on the project which is now close to completion.

The small coastal t

Dr Bernd Bohr is to become the new supervisory board chairman at German off-highway diesel engine manufacturer DEUTZ with effect from 1 January 2019.

He replaces Hans-Georg Härter, who steps down on 31 December 2018 having been chairman of the supervisory board since 2015.

Bohr (62) joined the DEUTZ supervisory board in 2018. A freelance management consultant, he was previously head of automotive technology at Robert Bosch and is a member of various supervisory bodies. He has extensive business and t

The innovation and venture capital unit of building materials giant CEMEX has invested in StructionSite, a US-based startup that creates digital worksite models using 360-degree cameras.

CEMEX Ventures says the StructionSite solution saves about 60% of the time required to calculate progress at a worksite, a process comprising about 1.74% of the total cost of a construction project.

To create its digital models, StructionSite uses 360-degree cameras that provide data to its software, which digitalise

Building materials and solutions provider LafargeHolcim has made a number of changes to its senior management structure.

The company has promoted its legal and HR functions to the executive committee, and is also organising its growth & performance corporate business function into three centres of excellence.

Feliciano González Muñoz, head of HR has been appointed member of the executive committee. A Spanish national, he has worked for more than 11 years in senior HR roles with the company. He will fo

Caterpillar has introduced the 990K Aggregate Handler, designed to handle greater payloads in aggregates site applications. With as much as a 25% payload increase, as compared to the standard 990K wheeled loader, the new Aggregate Handler enables customers to load trucks and railcars faster and to move more material in load-and-carry and stockpile handling tasks.

The Cat 990K Aggregate Handler has a payload of 20 tonnes and a full turn static tipping load of 43.7tonnes. Additional counterweight maintains

In a claimed global industry first, MineWare’s Pegasys Dragline Monitor has extended its capability to support underwater digging.

Enhanced with MineWare’s new Machine Terrain Mapping (MTM) Technology module, Pegasys can now help miners and quarrying operators locate and recover material up to 100 feet below water.

MineWare North America regional vice president Greg Ladewig said this is a significant development for the mining and quarrying industry globally, making underwater materials retrieval safe

US aggregates industry body the National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association (NSSGA) has reached an agreement with the National Industrial Sand Association (NISA) to create a new Industrial Sand Division (ISD) of NSSGA.

NISA members will form the nucleus of the NSSGA’s new Industrial Sand Division.

“NSSGA members have long known the value of coming together as an industry for effective representation of our priorities,” said NSSGA chairman Randy Lake, CRH American Materials. “Formalising this partnersh

Terex Trucks has just signed its third dealer in Germany: Maschinenbau Rehnen – and the timing couldn’t be better. Thanks to a growing demand for real estate and a multi-billion euro budget set aside for infrastructure projects, Germany has become a hotbed for construction.

Maschinenbau Rehnen is the latest addition to Terex Trucks’ German dealer network. The family-run company was established in the 1960s and has since gone onto become a major player in the German construction market. It has three branc