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SigmaRoc, the buy-and-build construction materials group, has entered into a licensing agreement with Tarmac Trading, for the manufacture, distribution and installation of its Shuttabloc system. Shuttabloc, developed by SigmaRoc subsidiary Poundfield Products, is a revolutionary pre-cast retaining wall with internal reinforcing system, and it forms part of Poundfield's offering of innovative offsite solutions. Protected by a series of patents, the Shuttabloc system has applications in the industrial

There are at least six different things to get right if you want to properly calculate the costs of producing aggregates, and you may be doing one or more of these wrong. What are they, and how does it work?

But … you have to be honest with yourself about the way you capture every single production cost if you really want to manage your aggregates business properly.

Here’s how to be sure that you are getting it right.

The first rule is that production costs must be captured in real time, every time

The MPQC Continuing Professional Development (CPD) smart device app has been chosen as the platform of choice for the UK’s Institute of Concrete Technology. The Institute of Concrete Technology (ICT) wanted to assist its members with recording CPD, utilising technology to make it easy and smart. To enable this, they investigated offering its members a CPD recording smart device app. After initially considering developing its own app, as well as existing CPD recording apps, ICT decided that the MPQC CPD

The Mineral Products Association (MPA) Cement has published its 2017 annual sustainable development report highlighting the UK cement industry’s efforts to tackle air quality and progress on greenhouse gas reduction. Air quality is currently high on the government agenda and MPA Cement members have made major investments in recent years to reduce emissions to air so that levels of nitrogen oxides, particulate matter and sulphur dioxide are now 84%, 86% and 82% lower than in 1998 respectively. Reflecting

Newry, Northern Ireland-based attachment manufacturer, Hill Engineering has been named as one of Ireland’s Best Managed Companies for the fourth-year running, in the Deloitte BMC Awards Programme. The company secured the Gold Standard Award bydemonstrating superior business performance, and its achievement was recognised at the BMC Awards gala dinner in Dublin, which was attended by over 1,000 people from the Irish business community representing 26 different counties. “2018 marks the 10th year of the

CEMEX says it is no longer planning to authorise an up to 3.75bn CPOs capital increase at the extraordinary general shareholders meeting scheduled to take place on 5 April 2018. This decision follows discussions with a wide range of CEMEX shareholders and reflects the feedback received. “As we discussed on CEMEX Day, our management team’s priority is to achieve an investment grade capital structure, as the foundation of our value creation strategy” said CEO Fernando Gonzalez. “We are highly focused on our

Rapid International of County Armagh, Northern Ireland, has supplied KwaMhlanga Group (Gauteng province, South Africa) with a new Rapidmix 400CW mobile continuous concrete mixing plant to produce road sub-base in South Africa. KwaMhlanga Group, a large, diverse, civil engineering contracting group, operates in the construction, slipform concrete, continuous mixing and paving, plant hire and property development sectors, and was established in 2007. It is now one of the leading contractors in north-eastern S

Organisers say that bauma CONEXPO AFRICA, the premier trade fair for construction machinery, building material machines, mining machines and construction vehicles in Africa has firmly established itself in the market following its third edition. The organisers, BC Expo South Africa, Messe München and AEM, say they are looking forward to the next edition of the trade fair, which will again take place in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 2021. A total of 454 exhibitors from 34 countries and 14,167 visitors

Finnish attachments manufacture ALLU says it held the “‘best ever” meeting of its global dealer network recently when close to 100 people, representing over 30 ALLU dealers, visited Finland.
The company says it has placed a great deal of emphasis over the last few years in growing its highly professional dealer and distributor network, and throughout Europe, Latin America, the US and increasingly South-Est Asia, the network has continued to grow. During the meeting in Finland, dealers enjoyed a series of

Airware, the leading provider of end-to-end solutions that turn aerial data into actionable business intelligence, has launched enhancements to its Airware Mining and Quarrying solution.
The updated Airware solution is built on the secure and scalable cloud-based Airware platform. This solution leverages machine learning and artificial intelligence to help mines and quarries digitise their business and improve operations with visualisation, collaboration, analysis and reporting on drone-captured data.

UK construction materials giant Aggregate Industries, through its joint venture with Bennett’s Barges, has welcomed the first of its new vessels which will add huge tonnage to the River Thames as part of the long-term Thames Tideway Tunnel project, primarily based at the Carnwath Road Riverside construction site in London, South East England. Bennett’s Barges’ role on the 25km tunnel project, is to remove the spoil produced by the tunnelling process. Bennett’s Barges are working for the BAM Nuttall, Morgan

While 2017 was an unprecedented year for the southern African heavy equipment industry, which experienced a year-on-year market increase of about 15% across all product sectors, the current year has started much slower than anticipated, according to marketing director of Bell Equipment Sales South Africa, Mark Hughes. "Last year we'd come through a few tough years during which many companies opted to age their fleet and deferred the replacement of assets; in many instances sweating them beyond their