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Plans to decongest Dar es Salaam city in Tanzania have reportedly moved a significant step forward with the signing of the contract to build an ultra-modern Selander Bridge Flyover.

The east African country’s government is said by national media to have signed a deal with South Korean firm GS Engineering & Construction Co Ltd for the delivery of of the three-year project.

President John Magufuli and South Korean Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon witnessed the agreement signing between Tanzania Roads Agency (

CDE has produced a video of its new Combo Alpha-i manufactured sand washing plant solution being put through its paces in Indonesia.

The Northern Ireland wet processing equipment manufacturer for global sand and aggregates, mining, C&D waste recycling and industrial sand customers, sees huge growth potential in Southeast Asia for its Combo manufactured sand washing plant range.

CDE Asia is already at the forefront of the manufactured sand marketplace across Asia with over 280 installations spread over

The popular UK-based IQ Academy ‘Lunch and Learn’ webinar series returns this month with engineering professional, Nick Peatling, director of NIRAC Design Engineering, sharing his in-depth knowledge of quarry plant design, plant installation and materials handling.

Titled ‘The Basis of Plant Design’, the webinar will take place from 12.30pm-1pm on Thursday 26 July 2018. Peatling has worked in the quarrying industry for over 35 years delivering projects for many of the major aggregate producers. His compa

Tarmac, a leading UK sustainable building materials and construction solutions business, is restructuring the distribution model for its Cement and Lime division to deliver an enhanced service for its customers.

A comprehensive strategic review has informed the decision to move to a more flexible regional model for both bulk and packed cement distribution, which have previously operated on a national basis.

Tarmac’s own fleet operations will handle around 50% of bulk cement and 20% of packed cement

Yancey Bros has joined Metso's North American aggregates distributor network.

The Georgia, USA-based firm will offer Metso's mobile and stationary crushing and screening products to area construction, recycling and roadbuilding customers. Headquartered 10 miles west of Atlanta in Austell, Yancey Bros has 14 machine locations.

Chris Burns, VP of machine sales at Yancey Bros, commented: "For over a century, we have strived to offer the highest quality products, and the Metso line helps us diversify an

Irish global building materials group CRH has sold its DIY business, Benelux, and related assets in the Netherlands and Belgium for a total of €510mn.

The DIY business was sold to Intergamma, the Dutch organisation which has been operating it as a franchise. Certain property assets related to the DIY business were sold to US real estate investor WP Carey.

In separate CRH news, the company has announced that on 18th July it transferred 5,858 Ordinary Shares - priced between £12.22 (€13.69) and £24.51 (

LiuGong has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with United Overseas Bank (UOB) to support the major Chinese global construction and quarrying equipment manufacturer’s machinery financing in Southeast Asia. The MoU was signed by the president of LiuGong Machinery Asia Pacific, Chen Hao, and Karunia W. Tjuradi, managing director and head of Sector Solutions Group at UOB, at LiuGong’s Asia Pacific subsidiary office in Singapore.

“Since LiuGong set up its Asia Pacific subsidiary office in 2011 to exp

BUA Group has commissioned its new US$350million Kalambaina cement plant in Sokoto, Nigeria. The plant is located in the north east of the country, has a 1.5million tonnes/year production capacity, a 32mw captive power plant and a coal mill. It is designed as an environmentally-friendly facility that can run on coal, heavy oil or a mixture of both. The plant was commissioned on 17 July by Nigeria’s Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo. BUA Group says the new plant will create over 2,000 direct and 10

Quarry operators in East Africa will be interested in news that the Ethiopian Road Authority (ERA) has signed a ETB13.2billion (US$0.48bn) agreement with contractors to upgrade various national roads from gravel to asphalt.

The upgrading of the roads, which will require huge quantities of aggregates, is part of the Second Growth and Transformation Plan and would be conducted on eight road projects.

ERA communication directorate director Samson Wondimu told local media that the projects cover 749.37k

Limestone quarry operation Ben Bennett Jr has purchased a new L2606E loader from Bell Equipment to replace an existing machine.

The wheeled loader is assigned to loading stock aggregates and plant stone to HGV lorries and dump trucks.

Ben Bennett Jr is a family run UK company founded in 1883, comprising a limestone quarry in Matlock, Derbyshire; a steel rolling mill in Rotherham, Yorkshire; and a junior hacksaw blades manufacturer in Rotherham.

“We needed a machine that would be completely reliabl

Wendling Quarries is using drone technology from Kespry throughout its aggregates operations for aerial intelligence to ensure inventory accuracy and reserves.

The drones are being used across Wendling Quarries' entire cycle from pre-production to post-production. It also uses Kespry for reclamation surveying when it closes quarries, so it understands what it has to do to meet bonding requirements and restore the quarry after mining.

"Instead of sending a survey crew out to understand how much reserve

McCloskey Washing Systems (MWS) has used its first North American open day to highlight new washing and classifying equipment for both quarrying and recycling applications.
The open day event was in fact held over two days at H&H Stone in Bolingbrook, Illinois on June 20-21.
MWS hosted a live working demonstration of the Sandstorm 620 wash plant, processing limestone secondary crusher screenings to produce three spec concrete/asphalt aggregates and one spec concrete sand product.
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