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The Swedish city of Gothenburg will grow by almost one third to 2035. There is a need for space for 150,000 new residents and 80,000 new homes and workplaces. Part of the plan is the Karlastaden, a district where Gothenburg's new landmark, Karlatornet is being built. Thomas Concrete Group is involved in developing and delivering ready-mixed concrete for the eye-catching project.

The construction work around the construction of Karlatornet, Gothenburg's first skyscraper, began as early as 2017. Thomas Con

At its site near the village of Blackwater, in Wexford, south-east Ireland, D’Arcy Sands was facing a combination of site-specific challenges, namely water supply and reliance on a traditional bucket wheel classifying system. It recently partnered with industry-leading wet processing equipment manufacturer CDE to commission a new wet processing plant which was showcased at an Open Day event in June.

HeidelbergCement says its subsidiary HeidelbergCement France has finalised the acquisition of Cemex’s Centre region aggregates and ready-mixed concrete businesses in France.

“With this acquisition, we strengthen our vertically integrated market position in central France,” explains Dr. Bernd Scheifele, chairman of the managing board of HeidelbergCement. “The operations fit very well into our existing network of aggregates and ready-mixed concrete plants in the Paris region, and we expect significant syne

Saudi Arabia-based Alsafwa Cement Company has signed a contract with FLSmidth to increase its white cement production capacity.

Alsafwa aims to convert to a dual white and grey cement production line in early 2020 to target a share of the significant growth in demand for white cement in the local market.

Referencing a 2018 Mordor Intelligence report, Denmark-based FLSmidth says that emerging economies in particular are driving global white cement demand as construction activities increase.

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Ravi Saligram is to leave his roles as CEO and director of Ritchie Bros Auctioneers from October 1 this year.

Ritchie Bros-owned IronPlanet says it is hosting one of its largest ever European online equipment auctions today (June 28).

Miller UK, a supplier of innovative, high quality attachments to the world’s leading quarrying and construction equipment manufacturers, dealers and excavator end users, has appointed James Ross as the firm’s new business development director.

Ross joins the Cramlington, Northumberland, north-east England-headquartered company as it looks to executive its strong expansion plans, including adding to its product portfolio and establishing a bigger global market presence.

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Terex Finlay has appointed Komatsu Poland to distribute and support the full line up of Terex Finlay crushers, screeners and conveying equipment in Poland.

Komatsu Poland will also provide genuine spare parts and support services to the existing population of Terex Finlay machines in the market with immediate effect. Komatsu Poland is a full-service heavy equipment dealership that has served customers in the quarrying, aggregates, building, construction and recycling for over 15 years.

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CRH, the Irish headquartered, global building materials group, says Bill Teuber is resigning from the group’s board with immediate effect for personal reasons.

A U.S. national, 67-year-old Teuber was appointed to the CRH board in March 2016. He also served on CRH’s audit committee, finance committee and remuneration committee.

Until September 2016, Teuber was the vice chairman of EMC Corporation. In previous roles he was responsible for EMC’s global sales and distribution organisation (2006-2012) and

The site - used.komatsu.eu - has been redesigned and developed in collaboration with Mascus and Ritchie Bros Asset Solution. Komatsu Europe says that software and improved tools will help the company and its European dealers to better manage, analyse and remarket their used equipment via an inventory management system (Komatsu IMS).

Komatsu's inventory management system (Komatsu IMS) is accessible by all European Komatsu dealers, allowing them to publish info of their available used equipment on various

The 3.9 billion ton global cement market is being tipped to return to slight growth until 2023 after posting marginal declines from 2013 to 2018, according to a new study by the Freedonia Group (Freedonia).

A forecasted 1% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) in world cement sales during the 2018-2023 period will, Fredonia’s Global Cement report claims, be achieved despite reduced demand for the key building material in China, which accounted for over half of total global cement sales in 2018.

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Hanson UK has bought two new Hitachi ZX890LCR-6’s for its fleet operating at Shap Beck Quarry in Cumbria and Chipping Sodbury Quarry in South Gloucestershire.

The two machines were part of a package of 16 awarded to Hanson Construction Machinery UK (HCMUK) following a tender process in 2018, which also includes four ZX690LCR-6s and several wheeled loaders.

After a 90-tonne Hitachi machine was moved from one Hanson quarry over to Chipping Sodbury for a trial, HCMUK says that Hanson chose to invest in