News

CASE Construction Equipment has launched latest version of its SiteWatch telematics platform.

Caterpillar has produced three special vehicles to mark passing the landmark of producing 175,000 of its medium-high drive dozers.

Sales of heavy-side building materials, including aggregates, ready-mixed concrete (RMC), asphalt and mortar saw unprecedented declines in Great Britain during the second quarter of the year.

Construction materials provider Breedon says it has completed its acquisition of certain UK assets and operations from CEMEX, which the company first announced on 8 January this year.

Five Terex Trucks TA300 articulated haulers are rebalancing more than 380,000m² of material in heavy rain to prepare the ground for two major new high school construction projects in Houston, Texas.

Three Romanian companies have invested in asphalt mixing plants from Benninghoven to develop the country's long distance road network.

HeidelbergCement says it finished the first half of 2020 with a "good result", despite weak demand in many countries due to COVID-19 and corresponding declines in revenue.

Terex Finlay has rolled out the first Indian-produced unit of its fourth-generation 883+ heavy duty screener.

An independent report on the economic impact of the UK’s largest cement works has shown that it contributes £61 million to its local economy.

Chepstow Plant International, a privately-owned mineral and aggregates contractor for the UK mineral products sector, has won a national award for its staff training and development initiative, known as 'Project Fusion'.

The CEO of LafargeHolcim says the French-Swiss building material giant has shown “great resilience” during the COVID-19 pandemic, with trade making a “full recovery” in June.

Breedon Group (Breedon), a major independent construction materials group in Great Britain and Ireland, says its markets are recovering well after COVID-19 disruption saw the group post a pre-tax loss of £10.1 million in the first half of 2020, down 126% on last year’s first-half pre-tax profit of £39.5 million.

ORBCOMM Inc., a global provider of Internet of Things (IoT) solutions, has expanded its long-standing agreement with Terex Corporation (Terex) and extended the service term of ORBCOMM’s factory-installed telematics solution to its customers.

Blast services company EPC-UK has appointed Ian Davies to its board of directors.