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The EW160E wheeled excavator is the latest Volvo machine to get the LEGO Technic treatment. A replica in everything but size, the new model boasts 1,166 individual elements and a built in pneumatic drive system.

After almost two years in development, LEGO Technic has announced the launch of its latest model – an approximately 1:20 scale model of a Volvo EW160E wheeled excavator.

The latest model follows on from the runaway success of the remote-controlled Volvo L350F wheeled loader created by LEGO T

Hanson Cement has made two senior promotions; Mark Hickingbottom has been appointed national commercial director, bulk cement; and Andy Simpson becomes national commercial director – packed.

The newly appointed directors will work collaboratively to ensure products and services exceed customer requirements, reflecting Hanson’s aim always to be first choice by providing excellent service and solutions.

Hickingbottom has extensive sales and marketing experience within Hanson’s bulk cement team, as wel

Xylem, a leading global water technology company whose product range includes Flygt wastewater pumps for quarry applications, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Sensus for around US$1.7 billion (€1.52 billion).

Sensus, owned by investment funds affiliated with The Jordan Company and GS Capital Partners 2000, is a leading provider of smart meters, network technologies, and advanced data analytics services for the water, electric and gas industries. It has more than 80 million metering devices

Seven Tarmac employees have recently completed their final exams in the three-year Minerals Management foundation degree at the University of Derby, in central England, achieving six distinctions and one merit between them.

The successful seven, who are based across Tarmac’s UK operations, say completing the degree course has helped them progress their careers with the company. One of the students, Dannika Bannon, began her career working on a weighbridge, and is now Tarmac’s quarry manager for Bestwood

The British concrete products industry is estimated to be worth £1.84 billion (€2.15 billion), with around 500 companies operating in it. These are among the standout findings of a new report published by leading industry research consultancy, BDS Marketing Research (BDS).

The aggregate building blocks industry is the largest single market, valued at around £400 million, say BDS. “No other single sector represents more than 10% of the industry, but seven products are estimated to have a market value in e

IronPlanet has revealed that Bergerat Monnoyeur, an exclusive dealer of Caterpillar equipment in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Poland, Romania and Algeria, is to host the first Cat Auction Services sale to be held in Belgium. The landmark auction will be held on Thursday 6th October at Van der Vlist Belgium Bvba, Zeebrugge, and follows the success of IronPlanet’s Cat Auction Services April auction in Rockingham, UK. This will be the first time that Cat Auction Services has held an on-site auction in continen

With a partnership that dates back to the 1970s, Jordan’s largest phosphate mining contractor, COMEDAT, is using 90 Terex Trucks machines across three sites to mine phosphate in the north and south of the Middle Eastern country.

Used to help feed the world, the production of phosphate is generally consumed as fertiliser, and its annual demand is growing almost twice as fast as the human population. Although poor in water resources per capita, Jordan is rich in history and boasts plentiful supplies of pho

Civil engineering company WD Lewis, based in Mid Glamorgan, Wales has recently signed a deal worth over £100,000 with Northern Ireland attachment manufacturer Hill Engineering for 20 TEFRA Quick Couplers and 60 Titan Buckets. Hill Engineering has been supplying WD Lewis with the TEFRA for the last six years – but this is the first deal that has included Hill Engineering’s TITAN HD buckets.

Graham Ponsford, group plant & transport manager at WD Lewis, said: “We were introduced to Hill Engineering and the

Demand for Miller UK’s PowerLatch couplers in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland continues to grow after the company joined forces with dealer McSharry Bros.

McSharry Bros. has recently been appointed as the exclusive Kobelco dealer in the region, with Miller’s PowerLatch couplers now being used across a number of high-profile projects.

Kilcolgan-based civil engineering contractor, Ward and Burke, specified Miller’s PowerLatch couplers to be fitted to its fleet of Kobelco machines, which in

Keestrack has highlighted how the firm has developed its crushing equipment range since its 2010 acquisition of Italy-based OM and its OMTRACK crushers’ portfolio.

Processing plants have been built for more than 50 years at the former OM now Keestrack-OM facility in Ponzano Veneto, some 30km north of Venice in Northeast Italy. Founded in 1964, the company Officine Meccaniche di Ponzano Veneto – in short OM – produced static technology before turning to mobile processing and the booming recycling sector w

Grundon Sand & Gravel’s flagship Kennetholme Quarry in county Berkshire, England has been recognised as a PRIME site by the Institute of Quarrying - the first quarry in the south of England to attain such a prestigious accolade.

It comes after Kennetholme was chosen as the latest location to pilot the Institute’s PRIME (Professional Recognition In Mineral Extraction) initiative, providing employees at all levels with ongoing training and professional development.

Once they have successfully attained

Terex Trucks has launched winter protection kits for its rigid dump trucks to help avoid the need to keep engines idling in extreme sub-zero temperatures.

It takes only a drop of four degrees in core body temperature for hypothermia to set in, therefore the body wastes no time in activating its defence against cold weather. Goosebumps, shivers, teeth chatter and raised hair are all symptoms triggered by the hypothalamus – the brain’s temperature centre – to produce heat.

And it’s not just humans wh