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The cement industry is fully aware of the issues concerning sustainability but it cannot solve these issues individually, according to Per Mejnert Kristensen of FLSmidth.

Kristensen, who is region president for Asia at the Danish-based cement and mining products and solutions company, was speaking about sustainability and the role of the cement industry at the second annual Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA) Conference in Singapore.

On October 10, he joined other industry leaders on a panel

Topcon Positioning Group and BIA Africa will sell end-to-end solutions in West and Central Africa through SmartFleet, a new autonomous division, after their collaboration was made official.

The mining and construction industries in Africa are evolving at a record pace. Continuous improvement of equipment, 3D solutions and workflow management are essential for any organisation determined to succeed.

Topcon technologies are designed to provide mining and construction companies solutions to work faster

South African cement giant PPC is looking for a new chief financial officer (CFO) after Tryphosa Ramano said she would be resigning from her role on 31 October 2019.

Ramano told South African business media that she was departing for personal reasons. Ronel van Dijk has been made interim CFO until a permanent replacement is found.

Aggregates Business reported last month how PPC, South Africa’s largest cement maker, saw its EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Tax, Depreciation & Amortisation) rise by 5%-

FLSmidth, the Denmark-headquartered global mining and cement industries equipment and services supplier, has revised its financial guidance for full-year 2019.

Revenue is now expected to be in the range of DKK 20-21bn (€2.67- 2.81bn) - previously expected to be in the higher end of the DKK 19-21bn range).

The EBITA margin is now expected to be around 8% (previously expected to be in the lower end of the 9-10% range).

Return on capital employed is now expected to be 10-12% (previously 12-14%).

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The Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA) has announced the winners of its “Concrete in Life” global photography competition, which attracted more than 5,000 entries from more than 40 countries.

The contest is designed to showcase the vital role played by concrete in supporting economies, connecting communities, and building innovative structures all over the world.

Open to professional and amateur photographers via social media and online, the competition was split across three categories (Ur

Connectivity has become such an essential feature that if you are not connected, you simply cannot perform to the high levels required of a modern job site.

That is the view of Catrin Nilsson, manager, connected solutions platform at Volvo Construction Equipment (CE), which recently achieved the landmark of 150,000 connected machines out of parent company Volvo Group's total of one million.

Nilsson says machine data can now provide customers with all the help they need to boost fuel efficiency, uptim

EPC Groupe showcased its latest developments in blasting techniques, products and processes at the recent EFEE (European Federation of Explosives Engineers) 10th World Conference on Explosives and Blasting.

Metso is expanding its mobile crushing and screening offering for the aggregates industry with a new 19-strong product portfolio.

The Nordtrack mobile range is designed to meet the requirements of general contractors in particular and includes jaw crushers, impact crushers, screens and conveyors.

Metso says the Nordtrack range is designed to make the contracting business more productive. It features standard designs for off-the-shelf availability, plug-and-play features and extensive Metso support ne

Off-road engine manufacturer DEUTZ has bought fellow German company Futavis, a development service provider for battery management hardware and software.

UK-based Hills Quarry Products achieved the landmark of producing over 1.5 million cubic metres of ready mixed concrete for commercial and domestic applications.

The company was founded in 2005 and has five concrete plants supplying over 1,000 customers across central and southern England.

The 1,500,000th cubic metre was delivered in October 2019 to a residential building site near Wantage, Oxfordshire for long-standing customer Conlon.

Chris Lambert, senior buyer at Conlon, said: “Hills has suppli

Data and analytics company GlobalData says that the forecast for global construction output growth in 2019 has been revised down to 2.7%, which will be the slowest pace of growth in a decade.

A chief cause of the revised forecast is that the deterioration in construction output growth across emerging markets has been worse than previously expected, particularly in the US and the Middle East.

GlobalData’s forecast has implications for the global demand for construction materials. It sees global constru

O.C.O Technology has been awarded a 10-year contract with Ferrybridge Multifuel 2 (FM2) in Knottingley, West Yorkshire, for the management of Air Pollution Control residues (APCr) arising from the new power station.

O.C.O will process the residues using its Accelerated Carbonation Technology (ACT), whereby carbon dioxide reacts with the residues to create a carbon negative aggregate product. This manufactured limestone has many applications in construction, notably as an ingredient for use in the produ

The Institute of Quarrying (IQ) has formed a new partnership with Natural England to update the nearly 20-year-old UK guidance on handling soils.

The original guide by the Department for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs' (DEFRA) was first published in 2000 by the then Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF). The guidance was written specifically to help the mineral industry and its contractors to achieve a good standard of restoration when using various combinations of earth-moving machiner

Marangoni Retreading Systems has staged a special “family day” celebrate the important milestone of 100 years of German company history.