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Global demand for construction aggregates is set to grow at a healthy rate until 2024, according to a new report by a leading independent business market research company. Future Market Insights’ (FMI) new study Global Construction Aggregates Market: Industry Analysis and Opportunity Assessment, 2016–2024, says the global construction aggregates market is set to expand at a CAGR of 6.1% in the period 2016-2024, reaching a market value of US$468.2 billion by 31 December 2024. FMI’s report states that const

Aggregate Industries, a leading player in the UK construction and infrastructure industries, headquartered in Bardon Hill, Leicestershire, England, is one of the first companies to sign up to a new sector-wide initiative to promote a culture of Fairness, Inclusion and Respect (FIR).

The FIR programme is a cross-client, cross-contractors, cross-industry programme championing equality and diversity, creating high quality resources whilst training and empowering colleagues to make a real change.

Shipments of decorative aggregate within Europe are continuing to grow and evolve for leading UK manufacturer Welsh Slate, part of the Lagan Group. A total of seven shipments totalling almost 14,000tonnes were made in 2017 from Port Penrhyn at Bangor, near to the manufacturer’s main Penrhyn quarry at Bethesda in North Wales, to feed the continuing demand for decorative aggregates. There had been four shipments in 2016 - three to Redsun Garden Products, one of the largest producers of precast products in

Hidromek launch excavator for South The standard long track maximises the balance of the machine by offering a durable platform for the machine to work on. Two roller housings in each track keep track chains in straight direction and therefore prevent corrosion of lower rollers. The upper roller, lower rollers and front idlers are suitable for heavy duty working conditions; they have been sealed with life-time seals which are maintenance-free. Just ahead of bauma CONEXPO AFRICA, Ellis is positive about

Following on from the successful launch of the ‘Give Bullying the Boot’ campaign last November, Aggregate Industries and Leicester Tigers are continuing in their joint endeavour to help beat bullying in Leicestershire, England, with a new focus on cyber bullying. Over the course of February through to the end of March 2018, representatives from the Leicester Tigers will be visiting numerous schools across Leicestershire to provide talks about cyber bullying, looking at the impact of technology and social

CEMEX, the Mexican global building materials giant, posted net income of US$806 million in 2017 – its highest in a decade. The company’s net sales increased by 4% year-on-year during the fourth quarter of 2017 to US$3.4 billion, and increased 3% for the full year 2017 to US$13.7 billion. Operating EBITDA decreased by 7% during Q4 2017 to US$625 million, and decreased by 6% for the full year to US$2.6 billion.

As dust suppression systems remain a grudge buy for many dust-emitting operations such as quarries and mines in Africa at large, South African supplier I-CAT reiterates that, apart from just meeting legislative requirements, the benefits of efficient and effective dust suppression systems are many and proven.
Lourens Jansen van Rensburg, director at I-CAT, a South African supplier of dust suppression systems since 2008, says benefits of efficient and effective dust suppression systems are proven and multip

Superior Industries, a U.S. based manufacturer and global supplier of bulk material processing and handling systems, has appointed Belt Tech Industrial as a full line dealer of its growing group of bulk processing and handling equipment. For two decades, the Indiana-based company has distributed Superior’s brand of conveyor components. Now, with this expanded partnership, Belt Tech will additionally sell and service Superior’s crushing, screening, washing and conveying equipment throughout Indiana, Kentucky

The UK’s Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) is investigating a proposed deal that would see Breedon acquire four quarries and an asphalt plant from Tarmac for £16.5 million, to be satisfied by the transfer of 27 ready-mixed concrete plants to Tarmac, plus a payment of £4.9 million in cash. Announced on 13 December 2017, the deal is conditional on approval by the CMA. It would see Breedon acquire from Tarmac – a CRH company - quarries in Scotland, Cumbria and North Wales, and a quarry and asphalt plant

LafargeHolcim Maroc will supply special cement for the Nador West Med project. Located 30 kilometres from Nador on the Mediterranean coast, Nador West Med is an integrated port complex. The first stage of this project - which includes the building of breakwaters, three oil/ bulk terminals and a container terminal - is expected to be completed in 2020. LafargeHolcim solutions will be used for the precasting of caissons, breakwaters, and quay construction using cement that has been developed to guarantee 100