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Five SDLG wheeled loaders are helping to load mud and petroleum-contaminated soil onto trucks every day at an oil field in Riau, Sumatra, Indonesia.
The material is then taken away and recycled as an ingredient of cement.
The oil field produces nearly 200,000 barrels of crude oil/day, and for eight hours a day, five SDLG wheeled loaders (comprising three LG968L and two L956F units) work onsite to load the unwanted by-products onto trucks to be taken to cement plants in other parts of the country for recyc

Hanson UK is supplying concrete to one of the biggest construction projects in south Wales.
The £350 million (€400 million), 470-bed Grange University Hospital in Llanfrechfa, Cwmbran, will be built using 30,000m3 of concrete delivered from three Hanson plants at Newport, Cardiff and Ebbw Vale, over the next 18 months.
The contract with Laing O’Rourke, worth £2 million (€2.28 million), will also see the company supply 60,000tonnes of aggregate; 7,500tonnes of cement, and 7,500 tonnes of Regen GGBS (ground

Liebherr is starting work to build a new logistics centre at its Liebherr-Hydraulikbagger facility in Kirchdorf. The new building is expected to be ready at the end of 2019. "With the restructuring and the optimisation of the material flow, the logistics centre for production will make an important contribution in the future to efficient and high-quality production", said Matthias Herzog, production manager at Liebherr-Hydraulikbagger.

The new Cat C9.3B industrial engine, compliant with EU Stage V emissions standards, is now available from Finning UK and Ireland (Finning), sole supplier of Cat engines in the UK and Ireland.
The six-cylinder, 9.3litre engine builds on the capabilities of previous Cat models that have logged more than 200 million hours in real-world, off-highway applications, while meeting the stringent emission requirements of the upcoming EU Stage V standards.
Finning will be exhibiting the engine at Hillhead 2018 (26–2

Martin Engineering, among the leaders in bulk material handling solutions, has expanded its UK and Scandinavian operations.
This will allow it to offer wider service, faster equipment delivery and extensive employee training to customers.
The company’s new facility near Mansfield, county Nottinghamshire, central England, includes a new office, training centre, production area and warehouse.
With its expanded team of knowledgeable industry professionals, the company says it will partner with UK and Scandi

Carnage, one of the latest shows from Sky, sees contestants battling customised vehicles against each other in a series of challenging arenas. But they aren’t just competing with each other, they also have to escape The Pusher, a heavily modified Terex Trucks 2766C articulated hauler from the late 1990s.
Filmed in Tankwa Karoo National Park, South Africa, the show has been described as a cross between Robot Wars and Mad Max, with a hint of Wacky Races thrown in for good measure.

Aggregate Industries has been a major supplier of materials at a ground-breaking mine in the UK.
In November 2016, leading fertiliser producer, Sirius Minerals, announced plans to press ahead with a funding deal to start the construction of a massive potash mine in county North Yorkshire, England, since named Woodsmith Mine.
The £2 billion (€2.3 billion) development, which is now well underway, will constitute one of Britain’s biggest mines; to incorporate a vast mine head at Woodsmith Mine, Sneaton, wit

The European tour of Monster Jam continues its journey together with BKT tyres.
Having conquered the public at the Commerzbank-Arena in Frankfurt, Germany, and at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium, Wales, with spectacular manoeuvres, breathtaking jumps and extraordinary acrobatics, the giant Monster Trucks, fitted with special tyres by BKT, the official, exclusive technical sponsor of the tyres for the fifth year running, are ready to continue their European tour at the Stadion Feijenoord in Rotterdam, the Ne

Future-proofing the mineral extractives industry’s workforce is an imperative that is being addressed as a priority.
It will form the hot topic of discussion at the IQ Academy Lunch and Learn webinar, which is taking place from 12.30-1pm on Thursday, 21 June.
Inspiring Futures in Mineral Extractives will be presented by Anthony Elgey, general manager for MP Futures, part of MPQC.
“I’ve worked in the quarrying industry for over 20 years and the issue of an ageing workforce is one that we’ve been talking

Twelve successful Cemex UK aggregate logistics apprentices have started their first week.
The apprentices will be based at Cemex quarries throughout the country and are undertaking a 12-month apprenticeship.
They could graduate with a nationally-recognised apprenticeship qualification in driving goods vehicles, an LGV category C or C+E licence, and a job as a LGV Cemex driver.
This is the fourth year of this successful scheme and from the past three cohorts 29 apprentices have graduated and become Ceme

Emerald Equipment Systems is the new distributor for New York state for Cedarapids products.
Cedarapids is said to be one one of the market leaders in the aggregates processing industry.
The new partnership will better enable Emerald Equipment Systems to expand and reach new markets in need of modular, portable and static mobile crushing and screening equipment.
Through the partnership, Emerald Equipment Systems will offer the Cedarapids’ line of crushing and screening products within its new equipment a

CRH receives regulatory approval for the acquisition of the Ash Grove Cement Company.
The US Federal Trade Commission has now issued its consent order for this transaction and no further regulatory approvals are outstanding.
On 17 September 2018 CRH announced that it had reached an agreement to acquire the leading US cement manufacturer headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas, for a total consideration of US$3.5 billion (€3 billion).
The transaction is expected to close in June 2018, though there can be n

Aggregate Industries is launching Pro Pitch Elite infill sand for sports pitch construction and maintenance.
The sand is said to have been proven to have the best drainage rates available to the UK market.
Unveiled by the company’s Garside Sands division, Pro Pitch Elite infill sand has been specifically designed to include larger rounded particles to provide superior void space through the playing surface of synthetic sport pitches exposed to extreme weather conditions.
The new product will be sold alo