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Liebherr Group expects 2018 to bring “appreciable gains” in its equipment sales to mining, earthmoving and concrete technology customers and growth in its construction machinery sales after posting record annual turnover last year, with total sales of €9.845 billion. The Group says its 2018 order book is “looking very good”, leaving it bullish about building on healthy 9.3% revenue growth in 2017, compared to the previous 12 months. Sales of Liebherr construction machinery and mining equipment rose by 14.

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Volvo Construction Equipment has unveiled its new range of Volvo-branded rigid haulers to customers, dealers and media at the company’s Motherwell facility in Scotland.

Guests got their first glimpse of the new machines – which consist of the 41tonne (45ton) R45D, 54tonne (60ton) R60D, 65tonne (72ton) R70D and the flagship 95tonne (100ton) R100E – on Tuesday 10 April. The star of the show was the R100E, a completely new rigid hauler that combines a wealth of market and customer knowledge with proven comp

One of the United Kingdom’s leading plant hire companies, Chepstow Plant International, has made a substantial investment agreement with Volvo following a period of strong growth.
The company, based in Caldicot, county Monmouthshire, Wales, has invested more than £20million (nearly €23 million) in 99 new Volvo quarrying and earthmoving machines, including 59 dump trucks, 20 excavators, and 20 wheeled loaders (including the flagship Volvo L260H) ranging from 25-50tonnes.
The investment deal will run over

Paroc Group has launched a capacity expansion programme in its Trzemeszno plant in Poland to support its growth strategy for central and western Europe.
In addition to the positive market situation, two key macro drivers, energy efficiency and fire safety, are expected to increase the demand for insulation materials.
Paroc, one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of energy-efficient and fire-proof insulation solutions, believes that the demand growth will be especially in favour of stone wool insulation ma

The market for bricks, blocks and precast concrete products was worth over £2.1 billion (€2.4 billion) in 2017 and has grown by around 10% in value terms since 2015, and by almost 50% since 2012.
This is the highest value achieved since just prior to the recession in 2007, and market value is forecast to exceed this in 2018.
This is revealed in the report, Bricks, Blocks and Precast Concrete Products Market Report–UK, 2018-2022, which has been published by AMA Research.
The products covered in this marke

A county Cheshire, England-based waste management company is one of the first to take delivery of Kiverco’s mobile recycling plant from Finlay Central.
Part of the Finlay Group of companies, Finlay Central specified the Kiverco PS122 picking station for Henshaws’ 6.5 hectare site in Macclesfield, along with a Terex Finlay 883+.
Said to offer the benefits of a high performance stationary plant, the new mobile Kiverco PS122 picking station combines manual sorting, magnetic and air separation in a compact u

Ulrich Attachments, a leading UK manufacturer of attachments for mobile plant machinery, has strengthened its team with the appointment of Josh Copeland as account manager.

With over 11 years’ experience, Copeland brings a wealth of knowledge and industry insight to the role, which will see him conducting site surveys, providing customer quotes, liaising with major OEMs and manufacturers, and, most importantly, ensuring customers receive the best attachment for their application.

Copeland joins Ulrich

South African company ELB Equipment says that it is aggressively gearing its excavator offering to meet an anticipated demand upsurge as the economy turns upwards.
“Excavators are at the heart of any construction or mining operation and their availability is pivotal to getting projects off the ground. For this reason, we have brought in extra units, especially 21tonners, as they are the most commonly used excavators in South Africa.
“We have also tagged them at competitive prices along with extras and ext

Rising demand in the Indian construction machinery market due to the country’s huge and prolonged investment in new infrastructure is set to lead to bumper crowds at bauma CONEXPO INDIA 2018.

Many key construction and quarrying equipment industry players such as, KYB-Conmat, Manitou Equipment India, Puzzolana, Schwing Stetter India, Volvo India, Wacker Neuson and Wirtgen India have already confirmed their participation in the event being staged 11-14 December at the HUDA Ground in Gurgaon/Delhi.

The I

Metso has agreed to acquire the mobile crushing and screening plant provider P.J. Jonsson och Söner, based in Sweden. With the acquisition, Metso aims to strengthen the breadth and availability of its product and service offering for the aggregates industry in the Nordics. The company's sales in the fiscal year 2017 were SEK 342 million (€33 million). The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including clearance from the Swedish Competition Authority, and it is expected to close in the

Hauling shot rock downhill in order to then to go uphill may seem like a crazy way to run a quarry. But doing this has had a big positive impact on total cost of hauling truck ownership and productivity at Savage Quarry. At Savage Stone’s 400-acre quarry in Jessup, Maryland, USA, gabbro is mined from five, 43-foot tall benches, with chemical rock hardness increasing with each lower level. The shot rock (similar to granite and good for coarse road base) used to be loaded into Volvo 35 and 40ton articulated