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Tarmac has enhanced its rail freight capabilities with a series of new innovations as part of an ongoing commitment to productivity and supporting delivery of the UK’s infrastructure ambitions.

The major UK sustainable building materials and construction solutions business has become the first in Britain to install a Liebherr LH80C ‘Supergrab’ Gantry Materials Handler.

Recently unveiled at its Battersea concrete plant in London, the new equipment from Rail Freight Services will significantly boost si

Grundon, the UK’s largest family-owned waste management company and leading supplier of aggregates, has appointed Philip Atkinson as estates director.

Atkinson has joined Grundon charged with the strategic leadership, management and development of the Estates, Aggregates, and PED (Projects Engineering & Design) departments.

His responsibilities include the asset management of an extensive and diverse estate, improving income generation, enhancing capital value and delivering changes to the physical es

The Mineral Products Association (MPA) has published a new report on the use of Construction, Demolition and Excavation Waste (CDEW) produced by the construction industry in the UK.

The Construction Sector Deal indicates that around 120 million tonnes of CDEW waste is generated by construction activity every year. The new MPA report uses Defra data to demonstrate that 76% of all CDEW is currently being recycled or recovered back into the ‘chain of utility’ by the minerals and waste management industries.

A CEMEX concrete plant in Panama has earned Responsible Sourcing Certification from the Concrete Sustainability Council (CSC).

The building materials company says its Panama Norte plant is the first facility in the ready-mix concrete sector in Latin America to receive this designation.

Launched in 2017 by 11 founding members - including the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, the Portland Cement Association and CEMEX - the CSC is intended to improve the transparency of the concrete se

Brazilian ornamemtal stone extraction and processing company Guidoni Group has bought two quarries in the country.

The quarries are Via Lactea and Emerald Green, which supply two new stones.

Guidoni Group, which is based in Espìrito Santo, now has almost 50 granite, quartzite and exotic stone quarries. The company is an exporter of blocks and slabs offering the international market a range of coverings for different projects.

Located in Santo Antônio do Grama in Minas Gerais state, the Via Lactea

2018 sales at Metso increased by 32% in constant currencies from the previous year.

The Finnish quarrying and mining equipment maker has issued a financial statements review covering the 2018 calandar year and the fourth quarter. The review states that market activity continued to be healthy in the fourth quarter of 2018. Sales in Q4 increased 23% in constant currencies.

Orders received by the company were up by in 2018 by 17% in 2018 to €3,499mn (€2,982mn in 2017).

Operating profit (EBIT) for 2018

British quarry operator E & JW Glendinning has taken delivery of a new Volvo R70D rigid hauler

The vehicle is being used to haul blasted material to the primary crusher at the company’s Linhay Hill Quarry at Ashburton, Devon.

“We conducted a competitive evaluation of the rigid hauler market and since we have over twenty Volvo branded machines operating here at Linhay and our other facilities, considered the best choice of hauler would be the new Volvo R70D,” said Richard Webb, operations manager of qu

Aggregate Industries has introduced the new Strike+ range of high early strength concretes, specifically designed for use in structural, void-fill, pavement and track bed applications.

The range is available in four different strength settings and offers high ultimate strength in various levels of consistency, making it suitable for use with a number of placement methods including pump, skip and direct.

Aggregate Industries says the range is suitable for construction projects where durability is key

Chinese cement and plant construction group CNBM and France-based engineering firm Fives have signed an international cooperation agreement.

The two companies have defined areas of collaboration where each can benefit from the other's expertise and technologies. These include opportunities to partner in plant upgrade, plant expansion and new plants to implement Fives' technologies, such as FCB Horomill grinding system, FCB Pyro-line and Pillard burners to reach the highest level of energy efficiency, emi

CEMEX says that its 2018 consolidated net like-for-like sales for full-year 2018 increased by 6% on the previous year to US$14.4bn.

The building materials giant also posted a 4% increase in consolidated net sales during the fourth quarter of 2018 to US$3.5bn, compared with the same quarter in 2017.

CEMEX attributed the increase in Q4 consolidated net sales to higher prices of its products, in local currency terms in all of its regions, as well as higher volumes mainly in the ready-mix and aggregates b

Sandvik Group has announced that Lars Engström, president of its mining and rock technology business, will leave the company during 2019 after his successor has been finalised.

Engström has been a member of Sandvik Group’s executive management since 2016 and headed up the Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology business area.

Sandvik says that during his time at the helm Engström has successfully improved the performance of the mining and rock technology business and its divisions in accordance with the g

Sweden-based Epiroc received orders worth SEK39,400m (€3,783m) in full-year 2018, up by 16% on the SEK33,831m (€3,248m) total for the previous year.

The company says it achieved "strong growth in both top and bottom line" in the first year it has operated as Epiroc.

Epiroc's parent company Atlas Copco announced in 2017 that its business would be split into two from 1st Janaury 2018. Atlas Copco now focuses solely on industrial customers while Epiroc caters for customers involved in mining, infrastruc