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Stamford Stone Company has acquired the Clipsham Quarry Company from former owner and managing director, Sue Thomas. The acquisition makes Stamford Stone Company the sole supplier of Clipsham limestone worldwide and guarantees its reserves for generations to come. The company currently operates the Clipsham Medwells and Greetham quarries, both on the famous Lincolnshire limestone belt in county Rutland, eastern England, and the Clipsham Quarry off Bidwell Lane has now been added to that portfolio. The

Aggregate Industries, a leading player in the UK construction and infrastructure industries, headquartered in Bardon Hill, Leicestershire, England, has launched its new Maternity and Paternity Leave Policy to show its commitment to creating a more gender diverse workplace. As part of the company’s Diversity and Inclusion Programme, the new policy will offer mothers 18 weeks’ full pay during their maternity leave, as well as a six-week, return-to-work bonus, so 24 weeks in total, and fathers will now

Breaking with more than 40 years of tradition, A&L McCrae, an Argyll based, family-run civil engineering and contracting business headed up by proprietors and founders, Alistair and Linda McCrae, supported by their son Calum, has purchased two Volvo A30G articulated haulers from SMT GB. These are the first Volvo branded machines to be added to McCrae’s fleet of mixed equipment, which also includes excavators, wheeled loaders and mobile crushers, and will be deployed an a whole range of contracting

With the transfer of assets in South Africa now completed, the previously announced acquisition of the Sandvik Mining Systems projects business by FLSmidth has been finalised. The acquisition includes continuous surface mining and minerals handling technologies and competences that strengthen the company's core minerals business. By integrating the mining systems projects business into its offerings, FLSmidth closes the gap and covers a wider range of the full mining value chain from the primary crushing

Unprecedented global demand for JCB equipment will see the company create 600 new jobs in the next three months – with 200 available for immediate start. A very healthy order book at the Staffordshire, England-based firm means JCB needs over 200 operatives immediately; including welders, paint sprayers and assemblers. A further 400 staff will be required within 12 weeks. Worldwide growth in the construction sector has led to record demand for many of the product lines manufactured at JCB’s Rocester

Metso will present a variety of its innovative technologies for the aggregates industry during the 2018 Mawev exhibition in St. Pölten, Austria (14-17 March). "At Mawev, we are addressing the key trends and challenges in the aggregates industry by showcasing solutions that help our customers to maximise their profitability and operational flexibility," says Franz Zingl, Metso sales manager for Crushing and Screening for Central and Eastern Europe. Metso will present in Austria the Lokotrack LT1213S

South Africa-based Lion Park Quarries has broken new ground with the commissioning of a claimed first-of-its-kind in Africa Terex WJ1175 electric wheeled jaw crushing plant at the company’s JHB quarry in Lanseria, Johannesburg.

As a fully electric-drive operated crushing plant, the new Terex plant is said to be a significant departure from diesel-guzzling predecessors with a smaller price tag, while also requiring significantly less maintenance. In addition, the model, which boasts powerful electric-driv

Globally renowned Finnish hydraulic hammer brand Rammer is celebrating its 40th birthday in 2018 with a series of celebratory events.

The growth, success and popularity of the Rammer brand, which is part of Sandvik, has been built upon a foundation of innovation. The brand has continued to enhance its position among the world’s leading hydraulic hammer names; adding a comprehensive range of demolition attachments to its equipment line-up.

Innovations from Rammer brought to the global hydraulic hammer

As Britain looks towards the first major trial of driverless trucks later this year, Aggregate Industries has stated that this important technology could go a long way in bridging the current driver deficit – while stating that the need for truck drivers remains conclusive.

Last summer, the Government announced plans to pilot convoys of autonomous trucks on major UK roads by the end of this year, as part of an £8.1 million scheme to test the feasibility of truck ‘platooning’. The idea is that this appro

The Mineral Products Association (MPA) says the proposed draft revision of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) will further weaken the UK mineral planning system and increasingly threaten the replenishment of aggregate and other mineral reserves, which are the largest material supply in the economy and essential for the delivery of housebuilding and infrastructure. MPA’s own figures show that the 10-year average replenishment figure for sand and gravel reserves is only 60%, indicating that sales

South African earthmoving and mining equipment sales were up strongly in 2017, breaking a three-year downward cycle that had gripped the industry since Q2 2014.

Figures released by the Construction and Mining Equipment Suppliers’ Association (CONMESA) show that 5,614 new units were sold during the year - marking a healthy 18.3% increase over the previous year’s results. Until then the decline in sales had seen the number of units sold dwindle from 7,250 units in 2013 to a low of 4,747 in 2016.

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RUBBLE MASTER, the Austrian global market crushing and screening equipment manufacturer, has become the majority owner of Maximus, the Northern Irish quarrying OEM. Founded in Northern Ireland in 2004 and currently employing 120 people, Maximus manufactures crushers, mobile tracked screens, scalpers, washing plants and conveyors. RUBBLE MASTER has stressed that both brands will continue to exist and complement each other. The Maximus employees in Northern Ireland, the management team, the manufacturing

With the double milestones of the 60th anniversary of Bobcat and 40 years in excavator manufacture for Doosan, the organisers and the dealers and customers visiting the recent Doosan Bobcat Demo Days had more than usual to celebrate.

Staged at the Doosan Bobcat Campus at Dobříš, close to the capital city of Prague in the Czech Republic, 19-22 February 2018, this latest version of the very successful Demo Days event did not disappoint.

Attended by hundreds of customers from over 20 countries across