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Wire screen manufacturer Major has commenced a training programme designed to help end users maximise the uptime of its products.

The Canadian company is initially offering the Hands-On SMS programme in the US through its dealer General Equipment & Supplies which is based in Fargo, North Dakota.

The training includes hands-on experience with all aspects of a vibrating screen. Major says it can be a stand-alone presentation, or a supplement to training already provided by the dealer, including material

Construction and infrastructure provider Aggregate Industries has laid its millionth tonne of material on Highways England’s A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Improvement Scheme.

The company says the landmark - achieved in collaboration with the A14 Integrated Delivery Team - coincides with the UK project’s designated, on-site asphalt plant producing its 350,000th tonne for use on the improvement scheme.

In addition, 150,000 tonnes of asphalt has been provided from Aggregate Industries’ plants at Bardon Hi

Chepstow Plant International has signed a deal with SMT GB that will add 103 new Volvos to its fleet, including the first L350H wheeled loader to be sold in Great Britain.

The deal with SMT GB is for the supply of the machines for Chepstow Plant's mineral, aggregates and earthmoving fleet.

The assortment of machines includes twenty excavators, ranging from the EC250E to the EC750E (25 to 75 tonnes), twenty four wheeled loaders from the L70H up to the 24 tonne, 5.6m³ capacity L260H and fifty eight art

UK construction aggregates provider SigmaRoc has conditionally agreed to acquire Belgian sea defence rock quarrying group Stone for €2.2m.

The acquisition will be SigmaRoc's first outside the UK and CEO Max Vermoken says it will give the group an operating hub in the Benelux region from which it can expand in Northern Europe.

Stone operates two quarries, a wharf and a contracting business in Belgium, focusing on armour rock for river and sea defence work. For its financial years 2016, 2017 and 20181,

The Chinese market for cement and concrete additives was the single largest overall in 2016, but will experience slower than average demand growth through 2023.

Those are among the findings in a new study from The Freedonia Group which predicts a 4.7% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) for the global market between 2018 and 2023.

China accounted for more than 25% of overall cement and concrete additive demand in 2018 in value terms, making it the leading worldwide market for these products. This is e

Swedish excavator equipment manufacturer Engcon increased its 2018 sales by by SEK137m (€12.79m) to SEK1.2bn (€112.04m) compared with the preceding year.

Earnings for 2018 were SEK157m (€14.66m). Engcon says the positive figures are due mainly to sales in countries such as the Netherlands and France showing significant progress.

It is estimated that there are tiltrotators on only around 2% of all excavators in the world, which Engcon says means there is huge market potential for all manufacturers in

Metso is expanding its remote monitoring services for the mining industry by opening its first performance centre in Santiago, Chile.

The Finnish mining and quarrying equipment company is also building up capabilities for a second centre in Changsha, China.

The new performance centres are designed to offer continuous automated monitoring, improvements and predictive maintenance services for the customers’ mineral processing equipment, components and processes. Metso says the services offered build on

The Matermaco Group is the new official dealer for Terex Trucks in the Benelux region. After supplying and servicing Terex Trucks’ articulated haulers at its Algerian dealership for many years, the Group now also sells the machines in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.

From its two locations in Belgium, the Matermaco Group will cover the whole of the Benelux region and will sell, rent and service the Terex Trucks TA300 and TA400 articulated haulers. With the Matermaco Group, Terex Trucks has sign

Following a successful 12-year relationship with LDH Plant in South Wales, CASE Construction Equipment (CASE) has expanded the partnership to a new LDH Plant facility in Middlesbrough, Northeast England. The large, recently opened site will sell the full line of CASE products, as well as the entire range of after sales services, including maintenance plans, parts and CASE’s telematics solution, SiteWatch.

Anthony Bouvié, CASE business director for Northern Europe, said: “LDH Plant is a hugely successful

Cement plant technology and equipment company KHD Humboldt Wedag International has joined the World Cement Association (WCA) an associate corporate member.

The 160-year-old company is based in Cologne, Germany and provides a range of clean technology solutions. It has over 650 employees worldwide, including in growing markets such as India, China, Turkey, and Russia, as well as in Europe and the USA.

The WCA says the company is driving innovation in energy-efficient and environmentally-friendly produc

Terreal, a French construction materials producer, saw its first half of 2019 turnover rise by an impressive 20% to €224mn. The eye-catching rise is said to be thanks to the acquisition of GSE Intégration, an integrated photovoltaic systems specialist, in September 2018.

Terreal reported an EBITDA (earnings before interest, tax, depreciation & amortisation) of €43.6mn in January-June 2019, +9.6% on a like-for-like basis.

According to Terreal CEO Laurent Musy, 2019 is set to be another year of growin

Epiroc's production plant in Essen, Germany has been certified to the ISO 50001 energy saving standard.

Increasing demand for process automation across industries is fuelling the greater use of cement and mortar testing equipment in the global construction sector, according to new research.

Titled ‘The Cement and Mortar Testing Equipment Market: Global Industry Analysis 2013 - 2017 and Opportunity Assessment 2018 – 2027’, the research report by Future Market Insights (FMI), a global business market intelligence consultancy, says the global market for cement and mortar testing equipment is likely to exceed