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Dorothy Ables has joined the board of directors at US aggregates and building materials supplier Martin Marietta Materials.

The appointment means the board now comprises 10 directors, four of whom have joined since 2016.

Ables has significant financial and operational leadership experience and will serve on the company’s audit committee.

Most recently she served as chief administrative officer of Spectra Energy from November 1, 2008 until her retirement in February 2017, culminating a more than 30

A team at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) in Lithuania is developing a method of producing concrete without cement.

The product uses industrial waste such as fly ash instead of cement and the KTU scientists claim it is as strong as traditional concrete, more resilient to damaging effects of acid, and more stable in cases of exposure to extreme heat and cold.

Aiming to reduce the concrete industry’s negative impact on the environment, KTU researchers have been investigating methods of substitutin

The CEMEX digital platform CEMEX Go is now used by 60% of the company's total recurring customers after one year in operation.

The platform can be accesed via multiple devices and allows customers to place orders, review their history of transactions, track their shipments real-time via GPS, receive instant notifications of their order status, evaluate and adjust orders, request invoicing and make payments.

The construction materials group says CEMEX Go now has more than 20,000 customers in 18 countr

Welton Aggregates has added two new Renault Trucks C430 8x4 tippers to its line-up.

Lincolnshire, UK-based Welton is an independent quarry, aggregate and concrete provider. The addition of the new eight-wheeler tippers bring its total fleet of Renault trucks to six.

The tippers were supplied by Thompson Commercials in Grimsby and are fitted with Broughtons of Barnetby Aggregate tipping bodies.

Welton Aggregates says its business is being boosted by a buoyant local housing market, and the new Range

The Terex Materials Processing business segment of Terex Corporation recorded sales of US$295 million in Q3 2018 – up 14% on the same period of last year. The growth was driven by global demand for crushing and screening products, material handlers and Terex Materials Processing’s broad line of environmental equipment. Backlog for the segment at the end of Q3 was US$446 million, up 72% versus last year.

“We continue to see strong global demand for our products. We increased sales, bookings, and backlo

Northern Irish quarrying group Kilwaughter Minerals has bought the Facades business of English premium building products company Alumasc for an initial £4.5m.

The Facades business principally supplies exterior wall insulation (EWI) systems which are used in the refurbishment of hard to heat homes in the public sector. This market has reduced in size following the cuts in funding provided by the ECO and Green Deal schemes in recent years.

Larne-based Kilwaughter is a £34m revenue group which operates

US-based Superior Industries, which manufactures bulk material processing and handling systems, is set to launch two new tracked conveyor models.

The new portable products are a 23metre tracked stacker and a 2.4m x 4.9m tracked feed hopper.

Superior says the products are in line with its reputation for heavy-duty designs. The tracked stacker will be one of the heaviest models available in its class at 15,420 kg. Each stacker is capable of handing up to 907tonnes/hour, while hydraulic power controls t

Quarry firm Tillicoultry Quarries has bought fellow Scottish company Hugh King & Co, an independent producer of dried mortar and render products and a leading UK supplier of sports sand.

Hugh King & Co operates one silica sand quarry and two brown sand quarries around Ayrshire, with reserves totalling 5 million tonnes. The company claims to have the largest sand drying plant in Scotland, a specialised high capacity dried mortar and render plant and automated mortar, render, sand and aggregate bagging ope

With its acquisition of UK industrial minerals company Francis Flower, LKAB Minerals plans to achieve increased visibility in the construction materials sector.

LKAB Minerals, the industrial minerals division of Swedish state-owned iron ore mining group LKAB, says the acquisition (which is subject to regulatory clearance) will strengthen its position as a supplier of materials for the building and construction industry.

One of the main attractions of the Francis Flower business for LKAB Minerals is

US-based Superior Industries has appointed Premier Equipment as its new crushing and screening dealer in the state of New England.

Premier Equipment will represent Superior’s full line of crushing and screening equipment including the manufacturer’s Liberty Jaw, Patriot Cone, Valor VSI, Guardian Horizontal Screen and Anthem Inclined Screen. The dealer will work alongside Superior’s product managers and engineering department to fulfill custom processing requirements in both portable and stationary materi

SDLG says it will be introducing a 5 t-rated loader to the Indian market during the December bauma CONEXPO India 2018 event in Delhi.

The company, a China-based subsidiary of Volvo Construction Equipment, says the move is in response to high demand for wheeled loaders in India. The new loader features a larger bucket capacity, heavier operating weight and a new cooling design system.

“With the Indian government continuing to invest in infrastructure, the new wheeled loader will be a great fit for hea

Sales volumes of construction-related mineral products weakened in the third quarter of 2018 across all British markets monitored.

The Minerals Products Association says that, following a comparatively strong catch-up during the spring after poor weather in Q1, demand failed to pick up in Q3 in sectors including aggregates, asphalt, ready-mixed concrete and mortar.

Seasonally adjusted sales volumes for asphalt saw the sharpest decline, down 4.6% in Q3 compared to the previous quarter, followed by mort

Construction materials supplier Aggregate Industries has strengthened its asphalt and ready-mixed concrete division with the appointment of Joanne Wilkins as head of business development.

Wilkins has a track record of successfully delivering product development and growth strategies, having spent over 11 years with construction giant Carillion, most recently as product development director.

Already active in her new position at Aggregate Industries, she is tasked with driving sales and development

The Mineral Products Association has welcomed UK Chancellor Philip Hammond's continuing emphasis on promoting investment set out in his Autumn Budget.

The MPA said that confirmation of the National Roads Fund and financing of Road Investment Strategy 2, the development of the National Productivity Investment Fund and further measures to increase housing supply are "significant policies" for the construction and minerals products industries, although delivery would be the key policy test.

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