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JCB is tipping UK construction equipment demand to remain strong over the next few years after recording its third highest sales ever in the market in 2014.
Speaking during the global construction equipment manufacturing giant’s press conference at Plantworx 2015 in Bruntingthorpe, county Leicestershire, England, JCB’s UK & Ireland sales director, Dan Thompstone, said the firm continues to sell more equipment in the UK than any of the other 30 brands operating in the British marketplace, and had maintained

Hewden, the leading UK rental solution provider, is investing around €1.38 million (£1 million) in a range of Miller breaker attachments, which will see more than 180 new breakers added to Hewden’s attachment portfolio for use with its range of 1.5tonne-22tonne excavators and 5m-17m telehandlers from 1 July 2015.

Hewden is also introducing an innovative new hanger system, allowing customers to interchange attachments even if they operate a mixture of JCB and CAT machines.

To ensure the highest level

Poritep NN (a subsidiary of Eco-zoloprodukt, Poritep trademark) will invest RUB 1.1 billion (€19.39 million/US$22.20 million) constructing a plant producing cellular concrete blocks with a capacity of 144,000m³/year in the Nizhny Novgorod region (Volga).

The project was launched in Bogorodsk in the middle of 2014.

Eco-Zoloprodukt's plant producing aerated concrete building blocks has operated in the Ryazan region (Central FD) since August 2013, and its production capacity is 1,000m³/day.

According to Vitaly Gorgolyuk, CEO of Eurocement Ukraine, the company will change the concrete production technology from wet to dry.

The enterprise is negotiating this project with a Belgian company, and it is reported that it may be implemented in three years.

Construction of a new processing line is planned, with investments amounting to €218.32 million (US$250 million).

In 2015, the company in the Kharkov region plans to keep its concrete production volume as of 2014 when it totalled 1.25 mill

Turkish cement producer Limak Cimento has signed an agreement with Chinese Sinoma International Engineering (Sinoma) to build a new factory in Ankara, Turkey.

The Limak Anka Integrated Cement Plant will have a cement production capacity of 5,000tonnes/day.

Construction of the factory will take 20 months, until the first quarter of 2017.

In the Philippines, a new production line and two new cement factories will be built by Eagle Cement.

The companywill add a third line at its Bulacan factory at a cost of US$400 million (€365.04 million).

Also, Eagle Cement will develop two new factories in Cebu and Davao with a capacity of 2 million tonnes for each factory.

According to the Crimea's Deputy Minister of Environment and Mineral Resources, Alexey Yatsenko, the region does not have a sufficient amount of crushed stone for implementation of projects under the federal programme.
Some four or five proven fields would be enough for Crimea to build high-quality roads.
The new fields are being found with much difficulty.
Small fields (with about 1 million tonnes of the resource) are located in conservation areas and forests, but it is noted that delivery of raw mater

Campaigners are opposed to plans to reopen a quarry in County Cornwall, south-west England.
The quarry is likely to supply Cornish stone for a proposed tidal energy project in Swansea Bay, Wales.
It is reported that Shire Oak Quarries is pursuing plans to reopen the quarry near St Kevergne, which would supply around 3 million tonnes of stone for the tidal project.
Tidal Lagoon Power, the company behind the Swansea project, is reported as saying no decision to use Cornish stone has been made.
Local camp

In 2014, demand of aggregates in Spain decreased by 1.8% on the previous year and reached an all-time low of 90.1 million tonnes.
Since 2006, demand for aggregates in Spain decreased by 81.4%.
The Spanish association Anefa said that 2014 was a flat year for the industry, but in 2015 the association expects for demand of aggregates to rise by 5% to 100 million tonnes.
In terms of business volume, the sector ended 2014 with a total of €410 million, after a 85% cumulative drop since 2007.
At the same time,

B&T Plant Hire has completed a 90-machine, £6.5 million (€9 million) deal with UK and Ireland Caterpillar dealer Finning.

The investment by B&T Plant Hire, a prominent south-east England plant equipment supplier, includes 84 Cat excavators, ranging from Cat 303.5 minis to Cat 320EL RR large machines, plus four Cat 730C articulated trucks and two Cat 950K wheeled loaders.

Operating out of its two main depots in Counties Surrey and Kent, B&T Plant Hire has maintained 30% growth annually for the past th

Following the clearance from the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) Holcim has launched the public exchange offer for all Lafarge shares at an exchange ratio of nine Holcim shares for ten Lafarge shares.
Through acceptance of the public exchange offer, Lafarge shareholders will pave the way for the creation of LafargeHolcim.
Holcim’s shareholders have already approved the merger-related resolutions at an extraordinary general meeting, and the documentation regarding the public exchange offer and the re

Leading cement companies are improving their sustainability, according to the results from an independent audit undertaken across 17 members of the Cement Sustainability Initiative (CSI) of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD).

Based on The Irish Times Top 1,000 Companies 2015 survey, 54% of the companies are based in Ireland, which make up 68% of Top 1,000 jobs, considerably higher compared to UK companies, with 11% of jobs and US companies, with 14.5% of jobs. There is a significant improvement in the finance and banking sector, coming from a loss of €1 billion (US$1.10 billion) in 2014 to a net profit of €7.1 billion. Central Bank earned the most profit in Ireland, with over €2 billion. Since the crash, some banks earned profit