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Hanson has invested £250,000 in restoring the railway siding at its plant in Ashton-in-Makerfield, Greater Manchester.

The UK aggregates and construction materials supplier says that this is the first-time rail freight has been run into the depot for around 10 years, and will see hundreds of lorry journeys taken off the roads each year. The first service run took place on October 15.

Working in partnership with freight operator GB Railfreight, Hanson plans to run three trains a week from its quarry i

IMER Group has signed an agreement to supply concrete manufacturing equipment to Russian construction materials supplier Eurocement. The equipment from Italy-based IMER Group will be used in the production of high quality and reinforced concrete for infrastructure and housing construction projects in Uzebekistan that start from 2019. The agreement was signed by representatives from Ahangaharacement, a member of the Eurocement group, and Nihol Impeks, a subsidiary of Imer Group in Uzbekistan. Eurocement

Sweden-based Epiroc has agreed to acquire Canadian exploration drilling tools manufacturer Fordia Group for an undisclosed sum. Fordia Group is based in Montreal and has sales in more than 70 countries. It provides exploration drilling tools such as diamond bits, down-the-hole tools, drill rods and drill casings, as well as water treatment systems and pumps, used by mining houses and drilling contractors. Epiroc says Fordia's solutions benefit industry customers by, for example, improving penetration rate

German aggregates plant operator Kieswerke Silzen Peissen (KSP) has purchased three new Doosan machines for the company’s Silzen-based operations. The machines are for carrying out gravel extraction both above and below water and comprise the Doosan DL420-5 wheeled loader, a custom-made long-reach 60 tonne DX530LC-5 excavator and the DL420CVT-5 (continuously variable transmission) wheeled loader. The two KSP plants in Silzen comprise about 70hectares of approved mining area, of which approximately

Australian landscape aggregates supply business Burdett Group says a Volvo CE L260H wheeled loader is helping to dramatically expand the company’s quarrying operations. The vehicle - which can pick up 12 tonnes in one pass - works 16-hours daily at Burdett's Lang Lang quarry in the state of Victoria, helping to produce and load landscaping supplies. Andrew Burdett, director of the Burdett Group, says that using the L260H has also reduced the number of passes required to load a truck-and-trailer combo

The Duke of Devonshire has been made an honorary Fellow of the Institute of Quarrying (FIQ) in recognition of his contribution to the minerals extractive sector. IQ president Phil Redmond presented the honorary title to the Duke at his Chatsworth home in Derbyshire, on behalf of all IQ members. The IQ says the award reflects the Duke’s overall support for the quarrying sector and his role in extraction from quarries that are worked throughout Derbyshire. In accepting his FIQ, the Duke said: “My family has

German off-highway diesel engine manufacturer DEUTZ has sold its 50 per cent stake in DEUTZ Dalian, its Chinese joint venture, to joint venture partner First Automotive Works (FAW). The parties have agreed not to disclose any commercial details, and the transaction is subject to approval by the Chinese authorities. Despite ending the long-running joint venture, DEUTZ and FAW, will continue to collaborate on a basis of a customer-supplier relationship. DEUTZ can still procure engines for off-highway

In the first half of 2018, BDS Market Research (BDS) has identified nearly 200 separate planning schemes for developments in the minerals industry in the UK. These relate to sand and gravel pits, crushed rock quarries, other minerals, aggregates bagging plants, rail depots, aggregates landing wharves and related activity.

Consents were granted for schemes relating to the extraction of around 150 million tonnes of minerals during this period. This is said by BDS, a leading industry market research compan

Wirtgen Group UK, one of Britain’s leading providers of construction equipment, has officially opened its new UK headquarters in Newark, Nottinghamshire, England.

The £12.5 million investment includes a new 5,500m² head office building to support the continued growth of the business, which now employs over 120 people. The 9-acre site also houses a new workshop, capable of providing maintenance and repairs for the company’s largest machines, and a spare parts distribution warehouse that will stock approxi

The Committee for European Construction Equipment (CECE) has called on the EU to equip itself with a long-term vision and a strategy for a proper industrial policy, in order to help the continent’s construction equipment sector achieve its full potential. The influential CECE’s call was made in Rome during the organisation’s latest biennial congress for the European construction equipment industry. Hosted by the Italian construction equipment association, UNACEA, CECE Congress 2018 saw nearly 200 delegates

Strong growth in South America, China and Russia, coupled with healthy profitability, fuelled healthy sales in Volvo Construction Equipment’s third quarter of 2018.

Helping parent company The Volvo Group to its best ever third quarter results, Volvo Construction Equipment posted a net sales rise of 24% to SEK 18,598 million (€1.798bn) during the period. Operating income was also up, rising to SEK 2,587 million (€250.23mn), up from SEK 2,023 million (€195.67mn) in the corresponding period in 2017. This ag

A total of 350 delegates from 26 companies attended a series of health and safety leadership seminars arranged by aggregates trade body the Mineral Products Association (MPA).
The MPA says that the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) ‘Leading Safely’ seminars, which were held across the UK in 2017/18, have been a key element of its Safer & Healthier by Leadership initiative. The interactive and industry-specific sessions give MPA members the opportunity to share and reflect on their own

Quarry equipment manufacturer Sandvik has outlined how it is supporting United Nations goals for sustainable development. The sustainable development goals (SDGs) were set in motion by the UN's 193 member states in 2015 and each of the 17 goals has specific targets to be achieved by 2030. Sandvik has aligned its own sustainability goals with the UN global agenda, which the Swedish company says complement its own initiatives for sustainability. It has highlighted a number of goals that have a direct impact

CEMEX has supplied 105,000m3 of concrete for the expansion of BMW Group’s Research and Innovation Centre in Germany.

Located in northern Munich, the new building is designed to offer an innovative working environment where approximately 5,000 BMW Group employees will develop hardware and software for the company’s future vehicles.

CEMEX participated in the first phase of the expansion project, providing a mobile on-site mixing plant. The large building project, with a gross floor area of more than 15