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The first new investment by the Port of London Authority (PLA), as part of its recently launched Investment Plan, is over £3 million support for the installation of a new conveyor system at CEMEX’s Northfleet terminal, on the River Thames.

CEMEX Marine dredgers bring sand and gravel from the North Sea and other off-shore locations into three wharves along the Thames including Northfleet, primarily for use in the London construction market. The new conveyor will improve the discharge performance of the ma

Brazil’s National Union of the Cement Industry (SNIC) reports that 70% of its plants throughout the South American country are out of operation as a result of the now 11 day-old truckers' strike. A survey carried out on Monday 28 May found that less than 3% of the average daily amount of cement distributed in the country is reaching its destination. Paulo Camillo Penna, president of SNIC, points out that the cement industry has very specific characteristics and that this makes the situation even more compl

Breedon Northern Limited, a subsidiary of Breedon Group, a leading construction materials
group in the UK and Ireland, has completed the acquisition of Blinkbonny Quarry (Borders) Limited for an undisclosed sum. Blinkbonny operates a quarry and ready-mixed concrete plant near Kelso in the Scottish
Borders, employing 14 people. The acquisition provides Breedon with its first quarry in the
region, with approximately 2.8 million tonnes of high-quality basalt hard rock reserves and
resources and a fleet of

CRH, the Irish global building materials group, has announced a number of organisational and business improvement initiatives. The group will establish a new global Building Products division effective 1 January 2019, bringing together its Europe Lightside, Europe Distribution and Americas Products divisions. Under the leadership of Keith Haas (currently president, Americas Products), this new platform will operate alongside CRH’s Americas Materials and Europe Materials divisions, leveraging the Group’s

CEMEX, the Mexican global building materials giant, has announced the winners of the third edition of the company’s INTEGRATE Innovation Program, and the winner of the company’s first global edition of Supplier of the Year. In its final phase, CEMEX’s INTEGRATE Innovation Program included 11 global suppliers of various categories and services (i.e., mobile equipment, paper and sacks, lubricants, additives, and refractory material, among others), who proposed 15 creative ideas to generate more efficient

Italian manufacturers sold construction machinery and equipment abroad worth €423.9 million in the first two months of 2018 – up 16.9% on the same period last year. The latest encouraging sales figures analysed by SaMoTer Outlook ‒ a collaboration involving the triennial Verona-based SaMoTer international construction equipment exhibition, research company Prometeia and Unacea (Italian Association Construction Equipment & Attachments Companies) - show increases in almost all equipment sectors. Earthmoving

Since Oldcastle Materials, a leading American construction materials producer, upgraded its Burnet County quarry with a new all-in-one EvoWash dual-pass sand processing plant, inconsistent production levels and loss of fines to ponds are said to be a thing of the past. The Burnet sand and aggregates company is part of Oldcastle Materials’ national network of construction solutions and applies its knowledge of local buyers’ requirements to its USA-wide expertise. It processes raw limestone feed to produce

Brazil’s M&T Expo 2018, Latin America’s largest construction and mining equipment exhibition, has been postponed due to a national truck drivers’ strike. The strike is currently blocking main highways and affecting the majority of essential services. The Expo’s 10th staging had been scheduled to take place 5-8 June at the São Paulo Expo Centre.

Event organisers Messe Muenchen do Brasil and Messe München, together with the Brazilian Association of Technology for Construction and Mining (Sobratema), said t

The UK-based Mineral Products Association (MPA) has responded with concern to the independent review of National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, announced by Defra Secretary of State, Michael Gove.

While the commitment to conserve and enhance England’s most cherished landscapes as part of the Government’s wider 25 year plan for the environment, alongside the need to protect and enhance landscapes and habitats, is fully recognised, the Association has raised concerns that the review process

CRH chief executive Albert Manifold has been elected founding president of the newly formed Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA), formed to tackle global construction challenges and promote strong leadership in the manufacture and use of concrete.

Manifold was elected by the GCCA’s board of chief executives drawn from leading global cement businesses during the Association’s foundation meeting in London, England. Fernando A. González, chief executive of CEMEX, and Jianglin Cao, chief executive o

Sandvik Plant Solutions has launched three new ways to purchase crushing and screening plants.

FastPlant is a pre-defined plant solution with a fast delivery time of just 12 weeks. SmartPlant is a smart, modular plant solution, based on Sandvik SmartStations, and is automation-ready. And CustomPlant is a long-term plant development relationship based on an Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) agreement to create the optimal plant for the customer’s needs.

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