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Breedon has finalised the senior team who will lead the group following its planned acquisition of Hope Construction Materials.

The Breedon group's expanded executive committee will comprise senior executives from both Breedon and Hope and from outside.

Pat Ward, Breedon group chief executive, said: "We're fortunate to have been able to draw on considerable experience and deep industry knowledge from both companies, and externally, in assembling our executive committee. I believe we have selected a s

Quarrying equipment form leading globally renowned manufacturers including Volvo Construction Equipment, Hyundai and Liebherr will be up for grabs at

Euro Auctions 46th Dormagen, Germany auction on 6-7 July 2016.

Specific models going under the hammer include a 2008 Volvo A25E ADT, and a 2005 Hyundai R210LC-7 crawler excavator.

The two-day auction gets underway both days from 8.30am. For more information go to www.euroauctions.com

Haver & Boecker has introduced the Tyler F-Class Split-Bucket Mounting System. The new solution is said to offer simplified maintenance and bearings change outs for operators, while also halving service downtime. The rubber mount housing, or split-bucket system, provides operators easy access to critical components, such as rubber mounts and body brackets.

All new Tyler F-Class Vibrating Screens feature the upgraded mounting system, which includes 16 rubber mounts and four body brackets.

The split-buc

Enno Straten will become the new managing director of Continental’s business unit Commercial Specialty Tires (CST) from 1 July 2016.

Straten succeeds Dr. Michael Märtens who left the company last year to concentrate on other projects outside the industry. A staff member at Continental for 17 years, Straten will report directly to Dr. Andreas Esser, executive vice president of Continental‘s business unit Commercial Vehicle Tires.

“With Enno Straten, we have gained a very experienced manager for the bus

Aggregate Industries, a leading building materials supplier to the UK construction and infrastructure industry, has named Eddie Stobart as its Concrete Products division’s new logistics supply partner.

From October 2016, logistics for Aggregate Industries’ Concrete Products division will transfer to Eddie Stobart’s manufacturing and industrial business unit. The new five-year contract, awarded following an extensive tender, will see the haulier carrying Bradstone, Charcon and Masterblock products from 1

Leading infrastructure services company FM Conway has completed the relocation of its head office to Sevenoaks in county Kent, England.

FM Conway has been based in Dartford, Kent since 2000, with its head office, workshops and a large materials recycling facility based at Rochester Way. The move will see 250 FM Conway employees moving to the new headquarters in Sevenoaks, including all of the company’s support staff as well as its senior management team.

The three-storey office block on the Vestry

Hillhead 2016 visitors will get a closer look at McCloskey International’s jaw crusher duo, the J40V2 and J45R at the event in Buxton Quarry, county Derbyshire, England, from 28-30 June.

The J40V2 will be at work in the demo area, feeding an ST80T tracked stacker, and a J45R jaw crusher will be on display along with an I44 impact chamber.

McCloskey International will be running the J40V2, with its heavy-duty cheek plate design, 40" wide jaw and user-friendly control panel offering machine diagnostics.

LiuGong chairman Zeng Guang’an has described how the Chinese construction equipment manufacturing giant has turned Dressta, its Polish crawler dozer brand, into a “viable, globally competitive business”.

Speaking at the China-Poland Business Forum in Warsaw attended by Chinese President Xi Jinping’s during his state visit to Poland, Guang’an said: “In the past four and half years, LiuGong has invested heavily to build the core success factors to drive business improvement including technology & product l

A new event dedicated to the European concrete industry is being held in Paris, France next year.

World of Concrete Europe - Exhibition & Forum will be staged on 22-23 February 2017 at the Palais de Congrès and will comprise an exhibition area and a programme of seminars and round tables.

Organisers are describing it as first event dedicated to the European concrete market, representing an unprecedented platform for information, inspiration and exchange for all industry professionals.

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HeidelbergCement and Italcementi have reached an agreement with the United States Federal Trade Commission to allow HeidelbergCement’s acquisition of the Italian cement firm to proceed on schedule. The proposed divestment of operations in the US, primarily consisting of Italcementi’s Martinsburg, West Virginia cement plant and up to eleven terminals, was accepted by the Federal Trade Commission. All competition approvals necessary for closing the Italcementi acquisition have now been obtained, a statement r

The latest additions to Volvo Construction Equipment’s range of wheeled loader buckets are said to combine clever design with unbeatable durability for long-lasting performance matched to the application and conditions on the jobsite.

Volvo CE has introduced three new buckets specifically designed to fit Volvo L110-L350 wheeled loaders – Volvo Sand bucket, Volvo Rehandling Flat Floor bucket, and Volvo Rehandling bucket, which will replace the current model.

Optimised for the application, Volvo Reha

For UK recycling, plant hire and crusher and screener specialist Paul Chapman and Sons (PCS), the best things come in threes - having purchased a third Bucket Bundie refuelling solution.

Exclusively manufactured in the UK by ACE Plant, the Bucket Bundie is an innovative bunded fuel tank that can be easily picked up and moved around site in the bucket of a wheeled loader or telehandler.

Having originally bought a conventional 1,000litre capacity static Bundie Bowser from ACE Plant in 2014, county Leic