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Aggregate Industries has reported a 50% increase in female graduates from its extensive apprenticeship programme and a more than ten-fold increase in its female apprentices since 2015.

A leading player in the UK construction and infrastructure industries, headquartered in Bardon Hill, Leicestershire, central England, Aggregate Industries (AI) offers a number of different programmes designed to give young people an opportunity to learn new skills and practice them in a live environment, enhancing their ca

UK-based Hanson Cement has appointed Claire Philliskirk as field sales manager of its packed products business. Philliskirk reports to Andy Simpson, national commercial director – packed products, and will coach and support its national sales team as it adopts a new sales programme designed to add value to customers and the service they receive. Previously at O2, Philliskirk has a proven track record in using technology to analyse and transform the sales process and won the Best Woman in Technology Sales

Aggregate Industries, a leading player in the UK construction and infrastructure industries, headquartered in Bardon Hill, Leicestershire, England, has been named as one of Britain’s Healthiest Workplaces by The Financial Times’ annual nationwide survey. The Britain’s Healthiest Workplace Survey, which is now in its fifth year, recognises and ranks organisations with the healthiest workforces, based on nine different risk factors, including smoking habits, nutrition and physical activity. Organisations

An MB Crusher BF90.3 crusher bucket has been deployed day and night crushing over 60,000m³ of limestone in the latest stage of the construction of the Oryx International School in Qatar, an Orbital Education Group school for Qatar Airways (QA) employees’ children. The construction of Oryx International School in Doha consists of two stages. The first stage (Oryx Minor) was completed in November 2016, when the first buildings were opened. Today, the school is operational. The second project stage

Two new A45G haulers from Volvo Construction Equipment are working at a major new aggregates plant in Gimhae, South Korea, where the local area’s fast-growing industrial landscape means demand for building materials is on the up. One of South Korea’s biggest aggregate producers, Kyung Boo Corporation Inc., has built a new crusher plant in Gimhae, a fast-growing city in the country’s South Gyeongsang province. Opened on October 31, the plant is the biggest in South Gyeongsang province and a newly-arrived

Breedon Group, the UK’s largest independent construction materials group , delivered a solid performance in the 10 months to 31 October 2017. Both volumes and revenues were ahead of the prior year, including a full 10-month contribution from the former Hope Construction Materials business, which was part of the Group for only three months in the corresponding period of 2016.

The Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven and the French President Emmanuel Macron have signed a strategic partnership between their two countries for innovation, digital transformation and green solutions during a ceremony at the Volvo Group HQ in Gothenburg, Sweden. During the event they also met with Martin Lundstedt, President and CEO of the Volvo Group, and viewed some of the company’s latest innovations – including the EX2 all-electric compact excavator, an autonomous refuse truck and an electric bus.

CRH, the global building materials group, said its Q3 2017 trading benefited from continued growth in the Americas. The sector giant reported cumulative sales of €20.7 billion for the first nine months of 2017 – up 2% over the same period of last year. In an interim statement, the company said that while underlying growth in the Americas boosted its trading levels, some operations were impacted by adverse weather and hurricane activity. Momentum remained positive in Europe, it reported, while in Asia,

Powerscreen’s Premiertrak 400X jaw crusher is proving its worth at Casey’s Quarry in Wexford, Ireland.

The Premiertrak 400X range of high performance primary jaw crushing plants are built for medium scale operators in quarrying, demolition, recycling and mining applications. The range includes the Premiertrak 400X with hydraulic adjust and the Premiertrak R400X with hydraulic release. User benefits are said to include track mobility for a quick set-up time (typically under 30 minutes,) hydraulic crusher