Jan Lissåker has been appointed executive vice president group communications and member of group executive management at Sandvik. The appointment becomes effective from 5 March, 2012.
Energy-intensive industries such as steel making, cement and chemical manufacturers have been granted a £250million (€292.5million) package from UK Chancellor George Osborne to help counteract rising power costs.
A Cypriot-based offshore company has secured 25% of Russia’s Pavlovskgranit. Sberbank Capital transferred the stake to Nisoram Holding after the company obtained a legal order compelling Pavlovskgranit to hold an extraordinary shareholders' meeting.
Tarmac says that health and safety is its main priority, and the company has turned to an innovative reversing radar system from vehicle specialist Vision Techniques.
As winter approaches, 150,000 honey bees are preparing to colonise in six hives recently located at Cemex UK Taffs Well quarry near Cardiff, South Wales.
Two major quarrying companies are investing in their workforce by boosting their skills through bespoke qualifications launched by the University of Leicester in central England.
Powerscreen has restructured its distribution channel in Russia with the appointment of one dealer covering all of the European part of Russia, including Federal Districts 1, 2,3,4 and the Sverdlovsk and Chelyabinsk Oblasts.
Ritchie Bros Auctioneers, the on-site and online industrial auctioneer, reached and exceeded US$5billion (€3.7billion) of online equipment sales in the fourth quarter of 2011.
Holcim, which sets aside some CHF 100 million (€80.8million) each year to further improve energy efficiency in the group, last year set up a fund for this purpose.
Danish cement machinery and mining equipment supplier FLSmidth posted a turnover of DKK 14.71billion (€1.98billion) in the first three quarters of 2011, which was an increase of 0.3% on Q1-3 2010.
Tarmac has been praised by a prestigious green business forum for its work to cut carbon at its Tunstead cement and lime operations in County Derbyshire, central England.
SLR Consulting is delivering an “exemplary” biodiversity offsetting scheme as part of the extension of Bardon Hill Quarry in County Leicestershire, central England.
Crusher spare and wear parts manufacturer CMS Cepcor has formalised a five-year authorised service provider agreement with FLSmidth, covering the supply of repairs and services for the Fuller-Traylor primary gyratory range of crushers in the local market.
