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Over 3,400 used construction and quarrying equipment models are up for grabs over the next three days at Euro Auctions giant onsite and online auction near Leeds, northern England. Dubbed Europe’s largest heavy equipment auction, models going under the hammer from 8am today were set to include a 2013 Volvo EC380 DL crawler excavator, a 2010 Liebherr R934C crawler excavator, a 2009 Cat 9DT dozer and a 2010 Volvo A30E articulated dump truck.
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Tarmac, a leading UK building materials and highways services supplier, has secured an extension to its major highways maintenance contract with Norfolk County Council.

The company was awarded its original contract by the East of England-based local authority in April 2014 for an initial period of seven years, with the option of four extensions. Having successfully delivered against a robust set of key performance indicators, including health and safety, innovation, collaboration, service delivery and

Continental, the premium global on and off-highway tire maker, has reorganised the top management of its tire division. Christian Koetz now leads the commercial vehicle tires business unit and reports in this function to Nikolai Setzer, member of the executive board of Continental and head of the tire division.

Forty-eight-year-old Koetz’s former position as head of the passenger and light truck replacement tires EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) business unit is taken over by Philipp von Hirschheyd

Royston Smith MP has praised the ‘invaluable contribution’ Aggregate Industries’ Eastleigh, county Hampshire, England depot has made to the building and maintenance of vital regional infrastructure including roads, schools and hospitals. Smith, who has been a Conservative MP for Southampton Itchen since 2015, visited the depot in the Tower Industrial Estate to meet with the concrete and aggregate production team and tour the site. As part of the successful visit, Smith also took part in an engaging round

Breedon Group has completed a major asset swap with Tarmac which secures 25 million tonnes of additional mineral reserves and around 50,000tonnes of additional annual asphalt capacity in four key UK locations. The Group has acquired from Tarmac three quarries near Inverness, Penrith and Wrexham, together with a quarry and asphalt plant near Porthamadog, in exchange for 23 of its ready-mixed concrete plants and a payment to Tarmac of £6.1 million in cash. Commenting on today’s announcement Pat Ward

Cummins revealed its new quarrying-suited Stage V power unit range at the Hillhead 2018 exhibition near Buxton, Derbyshire, England (June 26-28). Delivered as a complete and ready-made package, Cummins power units comprise a Stage V engine, exhaust aftertreatment system, radiator and cooling system – as well as auxiliaries such as mounting feet, hoses and an air cleaner.

Jeroen van Ginneken, director off-highway engine sales at Cummins, explains: “To complement our strong Stage V engine range we are offe

Global off-highway tyre maker Camso has appointed Industrial Tyre Specialists (ITS) as its aftermarket distributor for Ireland. ITS will supply Camso’s full line-up of construction and material handling products to Irish customers. “Industrial Tyre Specialists is a strong quality-oriented company which places a high priority on customer satisfaction and second to none service levels. These are values that fit perfectly with ours and we look forward to developing our application specific product and service

After the busiest two years in the privately owned business’s history, including the supply of over 800,000tonnes of asphalt material for the construction of the new M8 motorway near Glasgow, the Scotland-based Hillhouse Quarry Group is continuing to expand, with a focus on machine uptime.

Its latest purchase of a new Cat 730C2 and Cat 330 excavator, for its new sand and gravel quarry in Garpel, joins its diverse fleet of Caterpillar equipment, operating across the business, including its large Hillhous

Franco-Swiss global cement giant LafargeHolcim says its French predecessor company Lafarge SA has been put under formal investigation into allegations it funded armed militant groups in Syria to keep a plant open. The confirmation came after a judicial source said the company, formed by a 2015 merger between France’s Lafarge and Switzerland’s Holcim, was being investigated in France for the payments and abetting crimes against humanity. The affair relates to the Jalabiya cement plant in northern Syria

JCB today announced an investment of more than £50 million in a new British plant which will create hundreds of jobs and double production of cabs used on its machines.

Work is under way on a 350,000sq ft facility for JCB Cab Systems adjacent to the A50 in Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, central England, next to two existing JCB plants. The hi-tech factory will have the capacity to produce around 100,000 cabs/year. It will include a computer controlled production line, fully-automated painting facility and ro

You’d think an operationally focused industry like the aggregates business would also be planning focused, but you’d be wrong. Organisations in the industry are particularly bad at sales and operations planning (S&OP), but it’s hardly surprising as most would rather be in the quarry making products, or out in the market selling them.

However, S&OP is the key to market success; it is essentially about matching supply with demand to reduce uncertainty. It’s only when you take the time to consider the pitfa

The shareholders and directors of the Duo Group of Companies and Denbow Companies have decided to make a strategic move forward. They have agreed to merge their companies and the combined business activities will now be performed under a newly-formed company to be known as Duo Group Holdings Ltd. The announcement was made at the Hillhead show being held near Buxton, county Derbyshire, England, by Terry Last, non-executive chairman of the DUO Group of Companies, and Denbow International. He said that the