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Chinese construction equipment manufacturer LiuGong Machinery has promoted Kevin Thieneman to vice president.

Thieneman will be responsible for global strategy and business development, global after-sales business, and will support the acceleration of market segment solutions. He will also continue as executive chairman of LiuGong North America, a role which he has served in since joining LiuGong in June 2017.

He has 25 years of experience in the construction equipment sector. Before joining LiuGong h

German-based Sika has acquired the global concrete fibres business from Propex Holding for an undisclosed amount.

The business includes a US plant manufacturing synthetic fibres for use in concrete reinforcement, and sales operations in Sika’s three geographical regions.

Sika supplies a range of admixtures and additives for use in concrete, cement, and mortar production. The company says the concrete fibres business will be a perfect addition to its concrete systems for high value-added solutions req

Bell Equipment has started the expansion of its Eisenach-Kindel facility in Germany, the company’s European articulated dump truck (ADT) assembly plant.

Scheduled for completion in mid-2019, the Phase II extension will add two new halls totalling 12,000m² which will treble the available floor space and provide capacity for bin fabrication and future expansion.

The Eisenach-factory opened in 2003 as the company’s first production facility outside of South Africa. Bell says the factory offers the best

A team at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) in Lithuania is developing a method of producing concrete without cement.

The product uses industrial waste such as fly ash instead of cement and the KTU scientists claim it is as strong as traditional concrete, more resilient to damaging effects of acid, and more stable in cases of exposure to extreme heat and cold.

Aiming to reduce the concrete industry’s negative impact on the environment, KTU researchers have been investigating methods of substitutin

The CEMEX digital platform CEMEX Go is now used by 60% of the company's total recurring customers after one year in operation.

The platform can be accesed via multiple devices and allows customers to place orders, review their history of transactions, track their shipments real-time via GPS, receive instant notifications of their order status, evaluate and adjust orders, request invoicing and make payments.

The construction materials group says CEMEX Go now has more than 20,000 customers in 18 countr

Welton Aggregates has added two new Renault Trucks C430 8x4 tippers to its line-up.

Lincolnshire, UK-based Welton is an independent quarry, aggregate and concrete provider. The addition of the new eight-wheeler tippers bring its total fleet of Renault trucks to six.

The tippers were supplied by Thompson Commercials in Grimsby and are fitted with Broughtons of Barnetby Aggregate tipping bodies.

Welton Aggregates says its business is being boosted by a buoyant local housing market, and the new Range

The Terex Materials Processing business segment of Terex Corporation recorded sales of US$295 million in Q3 2018 – up 14% on the same period of last year. The growth was driven by global demand for crushing and screening products, material handlers and Terex Materials Processing’s broad line of environmental equipment. Backlog for the segment at the end of Q3 was US$446 million, up 72% versus last year.

“We continue to see strong global demand for our products. We increased sales, bookings, and backlo

Northern Irish quarrying group Kilwaughter Minerals has bought the Facades business of English premium building products company Alumasc for an initial £4.5m.

The Facades business principally supplies exterior wall insulation (EWI) systems which are used in the refurbishment of hard to heat homes in the public sector. This market has reduced in size following the cuts in funding provided by the ECO and Green Deal schemes in recent years.

Larne-based Kilwaughter is a £34m revenue group which operates

US-based Superior Industries, which manufactures bulk material processing and handling systems, is set to launch two new tracked conveyor models.

The new portable products are a 23metre tracked stacker and a 2.4m x 4.9m tracked feed hopper.

Superior says the products are in line with its reputation for heavy-duty designs. The tracked stacker will be one of the heaviest models available in its class at 15,420 kg. Each stacker is capable of handing up to 907tonnes/hour, while hydraulic power controls t

Quarry firm Tillicoultry Quarries has bought fellow Scottish company Hugh King & Co, an independent producer of dried mortar and render products and a leading UK supplier of sports sand.

Hugh King & Co operates one silica sand quarry and two brown sand quarries around Ayrshire, with reserves totalling 5 million tonnes. The company claims to have the largest sand drying plant in Scotland, a specialised high capacity dried mortar and render plant and automated mortar, render, sand and aggregate bagging ope

With its acquisition of UK industrial minerals company Francis Flower, LKAB Minerals plans to achieve increased visibility in the construction materials sector.

LKAB Minerals, the industrial minerals division of Swedish state-owned iron ore mining group LKAB, says the acquisition (which is subject to regulatory clearance) will strengthen its position as a supplier of materials for the building and construction industry.

One of the main attractions of the Francis Flower business for LKAB Minerals is

US-based Superior Industries has appointed Premier Equipment as its new crushing and screening dealer in the state of New England.

Premier Equipment will represent Superior’s full line of crushing and screening equipment including the manufacturer’s Liberty Jaw, Patriot Cone, Valor VSI, Guardian Horizontal Screen and Anthem Inclined Screen. The dealer will work alongside Superior’s product managers and engineering department to fulfill custom processing requirements in both portable and stationary materi

SDLG says it will be introducing a 5 t-rated loader to the Indian market during the December bauma CONEXPO India 2018 event in Delhi.

The company, a China-based subsidiary of Volvo Construction Equipment, says the move is in response to high demand for wheeled loaders in India. The new loader features a larger bucket capacity, heavier operating weight and a new cooling design system.

“With the Indian government continuing to invest in infrastructure, the new wheeled loader will be a great fit for hea