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Vicat Group, the France-headquartered global building materials giant, has been supporting Fondation Sococim and Sococim Industries with the construction of a maternity clinic in Ouakam, Senegal - the third-largest pediatric centre in the West African country. The Annette Mbaye d'Erneville Maternity Clinic in the Dakar suburb of Ouakam is named after a famous Senegalese journalist, writer and poet.

Hanson UK’s specialist asphalt Tufflex HD is being used to resurface the B4587 Akers Way in Swindon, South West England. The flexible and durable material has been specified by Swindon Borough Council for the three-kilometre project to cover the existing concrete surface. Deliveries are being made by non-tipping ‘moving floor’ vehicles, which can carry 40% more than conventional tipper trucks, to minimise road movements.

Garside Sands has supplied more than 2,400 tonnes of its pioneering Slowfil Sand to Thames Water, as part of an ongoing programme to improve its water quality for customers across London and the Thames Valley.

Thames Water is the UK’s largest water and wastewater provider, serving 15 million customers, and purifies its drinking water using the age-old method of slow sand filtering from its five operational Thames Water sites.

Garside Sands, part of leading UK construction materials supplier Aggregate

CEMEX supplied 10,400m³ of special concrete to pave the first Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) lane for one of the main avenues in Queretaro, central Mexico. Known as “QroBus”, this project was developed by the local Urban Development and Public Works authorities, headed by the architect Romy Rojas Garrido. This BRT lane offers an alternative for sustainable mobility to residents of the state of Queretaro, which has experienced significant demographic and economic growth over the past years that is reflected in incr

Demand for raw frac sand in North America is forecast to increase over 4% per year to nearly 100 billion pounds in 2021. In value terms, raw frac sand is expected to grow 10% per year to over US$3 billion in 2021, reflecting substantial gains in average prices as well as volume growth. These and other trends are presented in Proppants Market in North America, a new study from The Freedonia Group, a Cleveland-based industry research firm.

Growth prospects for the UK construction industry in 2018 have been downgraded as the UK prepares to leave the EU, according to the latest forecasts by the Construction Products Association (CPA). Output is expected to soften as a slowing economy, falling real wages and rising costs adversely affect the industry, growth for 2018 is therefore only expected to rise by 0.7%, the slowest in six years, and a downward revision from 1.2% in previous forecasts.

For now, activity on site is high and output is exp

McCloskey International’s expanding crusher line now includes compact crushers, which will make their worldwide debut in Europe’s largest basalt quarry at steinexpo 2017, held from August 31 – September 2, 2017 in Homburg/Nieder-Ofleiden, Germany.

Situated in a 1400m² stand in Demo Area C, Stand C17, the position will allow visitors to witness the power of McCloskey equipment in action, as well as explore new products on the stand.

The new I34 Impactors are designed to deliver high performance and ex

A package of eleven Volvo articulated haulers and a seventy-five tonne EC750E mass excavator have re-established a long standing relationship between Hall Construction Services of Rushyford, Co Durham, North East England, and Volvo Construction Equipment. So far, the EC750E along with six A40G articulated haulers have gone to work on a five-year overburden removal project to expose seams of high purity gypsum in an open cast mine on the outskirts of Newark, Nottinghamshire, where up to 2.8 million m³ of mat

Austrian company Rockster Recycler says it will be showing future perspectives in crushing and screening technology during steinexpo 2017 (open-air area, booth C21). Highlight of the Rockster booth at the 10th international demonstration show for the construction materials industry, staged at Europe’s largest basalt quarry in Homberg/Nieder-Ofleiden, Germany (30 Aug – 2 Sep), will be its recently developed mobile track mounted impact crusher R1000S. With the patent protected double functional return belt an

A new powered conveyor belt tracker from Martin Engineering is said to deliver immediate and continuous precision adjustment of hard-to-track reversing conveyors, helping operators reduce spillage and extend the life of belts and other system components. Able to effectively centre the belt regardless of the travel direction, the robust Martin Tracker Reversing unit is said by to have demonstrated greater durability and longer service life than previous designs, translating to a reduced cost of ownership. Ve