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Amix, a Lancashire, Northwest England-based concrete and aggregates business, has just taken delivery of its second Euroblend Fast Dry 70 Batching Plant, with a further 3rd plant on order for its installation in Wigan.

The company, which operates a total of five quarries in the Lancashire and Cumbria area, produces ready-mixed concrete at its Horwich site near Bolton.

The first Euroblend batching plant is now fully operational and producing ready-mixed concrete for local contractors.

The first Fas

The Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) and the Committee for European Construction Equipment (CECE) have signed a cooperative agreement. This is intended to help promote visibility for AEM exhibitions worldwide and deliver a positive global business environment for exhibitors as well as visitors.

Sigrid de Vries, CECE secretary general, and Megan Tanel, AEM senior vice president, signed the CECE International Exhibition Partnership Programme agreement during AEM’s recent annual conference of me

Global consumption of construction aggregates is tipped to reach 62.9 billion tonnes by 2024 end, up from 43.3 billion tonnes in 2016, says a new report.

Persistence Market Research Forecasts on Global Construction Aggregates Market says sand will record the maximum demand, recording an absolute incremental opportunity of nearly US$89bn over 2016-2024.

Global construction aggregates market is anticipated to see year on year growth of 6.3% in 2016.

Increasing activities in infrastructure and renovat

Polish cement company Cementownia Warta has become the first Eastern European customer to take delivery of the new Volvo EC750E crawler excavator.

Officially unveiled at bauma Munich 2016 in April, the 75tonne crawler excavator is noted for its ability to offer a higher capacity in any application, thanks to what Volvo CE describe as its perfect combination of power and stability.

Based in Pajęczno County, Poland, Cementownia Warta produces cement for road construction, airports and hydraulic struct

Low carbon vehicle technology innovator, Torotrak Group, is working with some of the leading off-highway equipment manufacturers to achieve significant fuel savings on future generations of off-highway vehicles.

The company’s Flybrid flywheel energy recovery system (ERS) features in two programmes currently underway: one with JCB and another recently announced with Turner Powertrain Systems (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Caterpillar).

Though quite separate, both programmes are part government-funded b

Thirty-eight pits and quarries have opened as aggregates companies in the UK over the past year in response to higher order volumes, according to the latest annual report by industry specialists BDS Marketing Research.

Markets increased by 4% in 2015 and further growth is expected in 2016, the key BDS report entitled Estimated outputs of pits, quarries and marine wharves in Great Britain also concludes.

Reviewing the latest trends, the report author Andy Sales said: “The industry has been successful i

Cemex and Cemex Concretos are selling Cemex Concretos’ ready-mixed concrete pumping assets in Mexico to Pumping Team SLL (Pumping Team) for around US$80million, plus an additional $29 million purchase price contingent on future performance targets.

The assets being sold consist mainly of Cemex Concretos’ 507 ready-mix concrete pumping units and other related assets.

Pumping Team, a Spanish-based company that specializes in providing pumping services, will become the supplier of ready-mix concrete pump

Saint-Gobain’s Formula arm in the UK has awarded a five-year contract to Darlington, England-based Banner Contracts to extract high purity gypsum from its open-cast mine in Newark, Nottinghamshire.

Banner Contracts was chosen after a thorough tender process involving eight potential suppliers, with Formula (a Saint-Gobain sister brand of British Gypsum) focused on securing a safe, competent and professional partner for this strategically key operation in the East Midlands.

The opencast mine, known as

Powerscreen used the recent bauma China 2016 exhibition to announce its planned entry into the Chinese market in 2017.

In 2016 the global trading Dungannon, Northern Ireland headquartered crushing & screening giant marks half a century of serving the world’s crushing and screening industry.

“We will leverage our strong global reputation and expertise to enter the Chinese market” said Colin Clements, Powerscreen global product line director.

Powerscreen claims to have pioneered the mobile crushing a

Dr Ian Selby of The Crown Estate is to become the next independent chairman of the UK Minerals Forum from 1 January 2017, succeeding Lester Hicks CBE. Dr Alan Thompson of Cuesta Consulting Ltd will become secretary, succeeding Chris Waite OBE.

Current Chair Lester Hicks said: “It has been a privilege to chair this important stakeholder group which was set up by the minerals industry nearly ten years ago. With a comprehensive membership including the industry, planners, the statutory regulators, environm

XCMG picked up one first prize, three second prizes, and six third prizes from its 10 entries to the recent highly coveted 2016 China Machinery Industry Science & Technology Awards.

The 2016 Awards’ jury committee presented a total of 344 prizes, including one Grand Prize, 35 first prizes and 119 second prizes.

Chinese construction, quarrying and mining equipment giant XCMG won a first prize for its ‘Research and Industrialised Application of the Core Technology of Hydraulic Walking Excavators’ entry

Auto Maquinaria has been appointed by Terex Trucks as its official distributor of articulated and rigid dump trucks in Angola.

Terex Trucks has partnered with Auto Maquinaria, Limitada (AMQA) to supply and support its complete range of articulated and rigid haulers in Angola. Headquartered in its newly-opened facility in the capital Luanda, AMQA will also provide factory-approved parts and other essential aftermarket care services to customers throughout the iron ore, diamonds, and oil-rich country in So

November 2016 marked the 10th anniversary of the launch of the landmark RSPB report Nature After Minerals: how mineral site restoration can benefit people and wildlife.

The much-respected publication was the result of an extensive Geographical Information System (GIS) model review of all active mineral sites in England, to assess their potential to deliver against existing Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP) habitat creation targets at the time and thereby protect species.

The report highlighted just wh