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Semen Tonasa builds a new cement packing plant. Cement maker Semen Tonasa of Indonesia is developing a cement packing facility in East Timor. The development of the plant is taken as the company aims to expand its export volume. It aims to export 400,000tonnes of cement in 2016.

Sino-Hydro and Power China Company are interested in implementing various projects in Pakistan.

Among them are a red line transport project; a K-4 water project; cement plant and a 600MW coal-based power plant, valued at more than US$4 billion (€3.7 billion).

The cement plant project is currently at the final phase.

The companies have also applied for installation of the coal-based power plant at Port Qasim.

AMD Group Investment (AMD) has received in-principle approval from the Thanh Hoa People's Committee in Vietnam to mine stone at Loang Mountain, Yen Dinh District of Thanh Hoa Province, north central coast region. The company is set to supply non-refined brick and stone for building materials under an agreement signed with FLC Group. The stone mining project will span 8.7 hectares. AMD is a Vietnam-based company with interests in equipment trading, high-tech investment, eco-tourism and preschool education.

Jaiprakash Associates in India has received four bids for the sale of its stand-alone cement business, which has a capacity of over 20 million tonnes/year and is expected to be valued at about INR 200 billion (€2.74 billion/US$2.96 billion).
It is reported that three of the bidders have been named as UltraTech Cement, Dalmia Bharat Cement, and US private equity company KKR (Kohlberg Kravis Roberts).
The sale does not include the 2.2 million tonnes/year Bhilai plant (a joint venture with the Steel Author

The 2nd annual Sandvik Construction Mobile Crushers and Screens Global Distributor Conference, held in Ireland, attracted over 120 people, representing 60 Sandvik Mobiles’ distributors from around 40 different countries.

Delegates received updates on the Sandvik Construction business, product briefings, as well as joining in other activities aimed at helping our customers’ worldwide.

Sandvik Construction’s president, Dinggui Gao, said: “It has been a challenging year, but fantastic to see the drive, e

In accordance with Article 20 of the Federal Act on Stock Exchanges and Securities Trading (Stock Exchange Act), LafargeHolcim has been informed by Sberbank of Russia that it holds, through a repurchase transaction with Eurocement Holding, 6.12% of the voting rights and of the registered share capital of LafargeHolcim.
This corresponds to 37,172,910 registered shares and voting rights.
According to the declaration of Sberbank of Russia, the Stock Exchange Act threshold of 5% was exceeded on 21 January, 2

A guide to slate’s use as an aggregate has been launched by Welsh Slate, said to be the UK’s leading supplier of natural slate for a peerless range of exterior and interior design applications.

The guide gives a snapshot of Welsh slate’s features and benefits as an aggregate, specifically for civil engineering, housebuilding, the water industry, and pre-cast and ready-mixed concrete.

As a construction aggregate, Welsh slate can be used as a granular sub-base for road building, car parks, footpaths an

The Mersey Gateway road bridge across the River Mersey in North West England will provide a new link between the towns of Runcorn and Widnes and speed journey times for those travelling further into Liverpool and Merseyside.

Due to be opened to traffic in Autumn 2017, Cemex UK is working with client Merseylink Civil Contractors Joint Venture to deliver the project which features a reinforced concrete decked three pylon cable-stayed bridge linked to approach viaducts on each side of the river.

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Utility and road construction experts from across county Yorkshire and the North East of England gathered recently for a conference covering the latest developments in aggregates.

Organised by Yorkshire-based quarrying and recycling firm Mone Brothers and timed to coincide with Northern Gas Networks' Environment Week, the all-day event at The Village Hotel near Morley attracted over 70 delegates.

As well as a talk by Northern Gas Networks, the event featured a number of video presentations and case st

Xylem, a leading global water technology company, is expanding its pump rental and service portfolio across Europe and South Africa through a multi-million euro investment.

Xylem says the expansion initiative will enable it to better meet the market demand from construction, industry, municipal and mining customers across both regions. In addition, the investment also supports Xylem’s global strategy to help build resilient communities, more prepared to respond to extreme weather events.

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The third -quarter of 2015 saw Italian natural stone products continue growing on the US market.

This is confirmed by the latest Istat export data analysed by the Marmomacc Observatory.

From January to September, 2015, exports to the USA of hewn, shaped and finished natural stones posted turnover of €336 million (US$364million), up by 29.4% over the same period in 2014.

UK-based Telestack, specialists in the design, manufacture and installation of mobile bulk material handling systems, has appointed Martin Dummigan as its new managing director.

He will be responsible for setting and achieving Telestack’s goals and objectives and will report to Jeff Elliott ,the group vice president aggregates & mining, and joins Telestack from Terex where he has had various roles in his ten-year tenure. His last role saw him serve as vice president, China Operations and Business Initiat

FLSmidth has been awarded a contract for process and quality optimisation of 17 cement plants recently acquired by the CRH Group, based in Dublin, Ireland using FLSmidth's ECS/ProcessExpert and QCX/BlendExpert products.

FLSmidth's ECS/ProcessExpert system stabilises the process of the plant, optimises the production, manages and corrects process disruptions and minimises wear on plant equipment, all to ensure optimum plant performance.

By improving equipment availability and utilisation, the system he