The Mineral Products Association (MPA) says it is "disappointed" that UK cement and lime producers have been excluded from the UK Government’s compensation scheme for climate change costs.
Beumer Group, a major global manufacturer of premium tech-led quarrying, cement and mining conveying and loading solutions, has acquired FAM, a Magdeburg, Germany-based supplier of conveying and loading technology.
CEMEX announced today that CEMEX Ventures, its corporate venture capital and open innovation unit, is investing in ObraLink, a startup that has developed a forecasting technology that monitors concrete during its pouring and hardening to predict its strength in real-time during the construction process.
Metso Outotec has completed the acquisition of Tesab, an Omagh, Northern Ireland-based company specialising mostly in mobile crushing equipment for aggregates applications, including quarrying, recycling, asphalt and concrete.
Vulcan Materials, America’s biggest construction aggregates producer, is poised to leverage “attractive growth in aggregates unit profitability” after seeing its first-quarter aggregates sales rise 25% year-on-year to US$1.121 billion ($894.9mn Q1 2021).
National nonresidential construction spending was down 0.8% in March, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) analysis of data published by the U.S. Census Bureau. On a seasonally adjusted annualised basis, nonresidential spending totalled US$839.2 billion for the month.
Off-highway equipment auctioneer Ritchie Bros has abandoned plans to buy its Northern Ireland-based rival Euro Auctions over concerns the sale would not be approved by UK regulators.
