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Atlantic Pumps, part of the Intrax Global Group, has been busy in Q1 2017 securing new distribution partners in Spain, Turkey and Hungary.

Based in South Yorkshire, England, Atlantic Pumps, whose product portfolio includes dewatering solutions for quarries and pumps for minerals handling, has agreed exclusive regional distribution terms with Spanish distributors Cramix, Hungary-based Öko Tect Kft and Baer Makine of Turkey.

The new agreements will see the trio of companies distribute Audex and SlurryPr

Almost 60 SDLG machines sold to the Shibh Al-Jazira Contracting Company last year are now working on 20 road maintenance projects across seven areas of Saudi Arabia. A total of 58 SDLG machines are involved in the multiple works being funded by the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Transport and carried out by the Shibh Al-Jazira Contracting Company (SAJCO). SAJCO took delivery of the machines, made up of 30 SDLG LG958L wheeled loaders and 28 SDLG G9220 motor graders, in 2016. They were supplied by SDLG national de

British Precast, in conjunction with the Precast Flooring Federation (PFF), has published a third party-verified BS EN15804-compliant generic hollowcore flooring Environmental Product Declaration (EPD).

The EPD covers a generic 1m² of 150mm deep precast hollowcore flooring and incorporates data from members of the PFF. The EPD was verified and published on the 8 March, 2017 and is valid for 5 years. The publication of the EPD also signifies an important milestone in the wider British Precast EPD project.

Metso has delivered two new NP20 impact crushers to Demix Agrégats' plant in Laval, Canada.

Metso and Hewitt Equipment, the exclusive distributor for Metso crushing and screening equipment in Quebec and Western Labrador, began the first discussions and studies concerning Demix's new plant project in 2014.

In 2016, this close collaboration led to an order for several Metso machines and to the birth of the NP20 model. The order was booked in Metso's first-quarter 2016 orders received.

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Aggregate Industries, through its Bennett’s Barges business, has secured the contract to move spoil away, by river, on the western section of the £4.2 billion (€4.81bn) Thames Tideway Tunnel project.

The Thames Tideway Tunnel, financed and delivered by Tideway, is a 25km tunnel that will tackle sewage discharges into the River Thames in Southeast England. Running from Acton in west London to Beckton in the east, the project has been divided into three construction sections (west, central and east), each

The European construction equipment sector saw encouraging growth of 10% in 2016, according to new figures in the CECE Annual Economic Report 2017.

The CECE’s (Committee for European Construction Equipment) influential Report states that building construction equipment experienced better demand in 2016 than the civil engineering equipment sub-sectors. Overall, the European market is said to be at its highest level in five years, but still considerably below the pre-crisis record levels.
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HeidelbergCement’s revenue rose by 13% to €15.16 billion in the 2016 financial year – with its acquisition of Italcementi the key driver of growth.

The German building materials giant says its integration of Italy-based Italcementi is ahead of schedule, with synergies from the acquisition increased to €470 million.

HeidelbergCement’s consolidated financial statement for 2016 also revealed that cash flow from operations also rose by 29% to €1.9 billion in 2016. The company is proposing a dividend to sh

Construction materials supplier Hanson is planning to invest £12 million (€13.7 million) at its Victoria Deep Water Terminal on the River Thames at Greenwich, South East London to upgrade and improve the site. A planning application has been submitted to the Royal Borough of Greenwich along with a full environmental impact assessment.

The Victoria Deep Water Terminal on the north-west side of the Greenwich peninsular off Tunnel Avenue is an important strategic site which is safeguarded as an industrial

BHS-Sonthofen and MSW Mineralstoffwerke Südwest have received the German Resources Efficiency Award 2016.

The prestigious prize was awarded by the German Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy to the two companies to commend the development and successful implementation of the Combimix process. This process turns a previously worthless mining by-product accumulated in quarries into a valuable building resource.

BHS developed the Combimix process based on its twin-shaft batch mixers and imple

Keyway Group has invested in its first Hitachi wheeled loader, which is also the first of its kind to be sold in the UK.

The ZW310-6 was supplied by Hitachi Construction Machinery (UK)/(HCMUK) for use in its busy recycling facilities in Durnford, Avonmouth and Gloucester, south-east England.

Late last year the new machine worked on a project at the beach in Weston-Super-Mare. The machine helped to construct the 15km-long track for the biggest event in the UK’s off-road motorcycle racing calendar, the

Despite an overall decline since the start of the century, the total volume of aggregates handled at rock wharves in Great Britain has gone up in the last year.

There has also been an increase in the number of operating rock wharves suggesting the sector is on the increase, reports BDS Marketing Research.

These are some of the findings of a new sector report, published for the first time by BDS, entitled Estimated landings of aggregates at rock wharves.

“In the last two years, companies operating r