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Following the huge success of its first UK open day, McCloskey Washing Systems says it is planning to host another UK exclusive open day event in London at the beginning of 2018.
While further details about the event will be revealed soon, McCloskey says the recent open day highlighted new washing and classifying equipment for quarrying and recycling applications.
The event, with a turnout of 150-plus end user customers from all parts of the UK and from overseas, was held at the Nuneaton,

Cemex is launching Cemex Go, which it says is a first-of-its-kind, fully digital customer integration platform. Cemex Go is a multi-device offering that provides a seamless experience for order placement, live tracking of shipments, and managing invoices and payments for Cemex’s main products, including bagged and bulk cement, ready-mix concrete, aggregates, and multi-products.
It is said to deliver real-time, detailed information that customers need to get more done in less time, enabling them to have mor

LafargeHolcim together with its partner Heliatek have developed a photovoltaic energy-generating concrete facade that has the capability to double the energy generation traditionally achieved by roof-based solar systems. LafargeHolcim and Heliatek have closely collaborated over the last two years to create a cladding solution combining Ductal and HeliaFilm, Heliatek’s flexible and ultra-light solar film. With this new solution, prefabricated Ductal panels are delivered on site with an integrated solar

The UK’s Construction Equipment Association (CEA) says that in the first three-quarters of 2017, sales of construction and earthmoving equipment grew by 6% compared with the same period in 2016. The statistics, released as part of the CEA's quarterly market updates, show that sales in the July/September quarter grew by over 3%, but represent a slowing pattern of growth from the first quarter, when sales were up by nearly 9% compared with 2016. Equipment sales in the UK market have shown a distinctive

ELE International has launched a new automatic control unit for concrete and cement testing.
The ADR Touch Control Pro system brings the latest technology into the materials testing laboratory, whilst also combining a wide range of new features that have been developed specifically in response to feedback from ELE’s global network of customers. “This is the most significant product launch that ELE has made in over a decade,” says ELE Managing Director Tony Power. “The advantages of the ADR Touch Control Pr

The scalability of Metso's HRC high-pressure grinding technology has successfully been proven in pilot tests. The tests were conducted at a customer pilot plant in Chile during 2016 and 2017, and following the success of the pilot, similar projects will be operational in the near future. Metso says that when designing a plant expansion project, it is important to go beyond laboratory tests to confirm that the selected technology is optimal for the process in question.

Guido Hesse has taken charge of customer support at the Beumer Group headquarters in Beckum, Germany. As the new director, he controls and coordinates the global centre of competence and defines, together with his team, the technical and organisational principles of services and support for the Beumer products. We see our task not only in preventing malfunctions and machine breakdowns, which would lead to long downtimes,” says Hesse, who is 50. “No matter what industry, our customers have to meet

The previously announced signed contract for a cement plant in North Africa is now effective due to, among several other conditions, receipt of the down-payment by FLSmidth.
FLSmidth has been awarded the order in North Africa for a state-of-the-art cement plant valued at more than €100 million.

Afrimat, a leading open-pit mining company providing industrial minerals, commodities and construction materials, has released encouraging interim results for the six months ended 31 August 2017.

The firm’s HEPS (Headline Earnings Per Share) rose 7.4% to 102.2 cents. Meanwhile, contribution from operations’ margin stood at 16.4%, NAV (Net Asset Value)/share for the period was 809 cents, interim dividend was 20 cents/share, and Afrimat’s return on net operating assets was 22.3%.

Andries van Heerden, CE

A family-owned quarry, which is said to be setting the blueprint for a modern, sustainable site, has turned to Finlay Plant SE to introduce screening technology to the business. J & J Franks has specified a new Terex Finlay 390 Hydrascreen and Terex Finlay TC 6532 stacker for its new, purpose-built sand pit in the heart of county Surrey, southern England, strategically located within the M23 and M25 motorways corridor. The site comprises a landholding of 91 hectares housing Mercers Quarry, a consented area

Cemex has announced that the Mexican landscape architect Mario Schjetnan is the winner of the 2017 Lorenzo H. Zambrano Award, for his professional trajectory and contribution to architecture through the design of public spaces that achieve a social, sustainable, and environmental purpose. The award is granted every year to a different professional in the architecture and construction field. It was created in 2000 to pay tribute to Lorenzo H. Zambrano, who led Cemex for three decades.

Six twin-shaft batch mixers delivered by BHS-Sonthofen are producing concrete needed to build the main embankment of the Dagu hydro dam being constructed near the Tibetan city of Zangmu. The construction site is located 3,700m above sea level, making this the most elevated site ever for employing mixers from BHS, and the company specially modified the DKX 6.0-type mixers to meet the challenges they are facing at this extreme altitude. Soon after the first two mixers started producing the first batches of co