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The first concrete mixer truck in the UK said to meet the new European transport stipulations has been introduced to the fleet of Hope Construction Materials.

The Renault Trucks Range C 430.32 X Load 8x4 with a McPhee Mixers 8m³ concrete mixer is said to be the first of its kind in Britain, and is built to the latest diesel engine emission legislation from the European Commission. The Euro 6’s diesel engine’s permitted mono-nitrogen oxide levels are reduced by 75% and promethium levels by close to 99% wh

Hexagon, a leading global provider of design, measurement and visualisation technologies, has entered into an agreement to acquire Mintec, a resource modelling, optimisation, mine planning and scheduling software developer for the mining industry.

Headquartered in Tucson, Arizona, USA, Mintec has with its 232 employees grown into a global network of mining professionals providing technology, service and support in some of the most complex mining operations around the world. MineSight, the company’s model

Shandong Lingong Construction Machinery is continuing to expand in North America, adding Flagler Construction Equipment as its newest dealer of SDLG wheeled loaders.

The company, based in Tampa, Florida, will serve customers in the south-east.

Alan Quinn, director of SDLG North America, said the addition of Flagler CE to the company’s growing network of experienced dealers will give customers in the region better access to SDLG wheeled loaders and provide them with expert guidance, support and service

A leading British undercarriage and ground-engaging tool specialist MST has completed a move into new premises on a site in Cumbernauld, Glasgow.

MST specialises in the supply of replacement undercarriage parts, rubber tracks and ground engaging tools for excavators, bulldozers and other earth moving equipment.

The new state-of-the-art premises on Westfield Industrial Estate will enable the comapny to stock a greater volume and selection of products, including more than 1,000 rubber tracks.

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Kobelco Construction Machinery Europe (KCME) says it confirms the Japanese manufacturer’s commitment to the region.

The company recently-established Almere headquarters in the Netherlands celebrate its official opening ceremony followed by the first KCME dealer conference since the manufacturer’s return to Europe.

The event is said to underline the excavator specialist’s continued focus on developing productive partners with selected dealers.

A major element of the conference was unveiling the new

Hanson Contracting in the UK has become the first national surfacing contractor to achieve the BS 11000 standard for Collaborative Business Relationships, just six months after the launch of the new standard.

The prestigious international award acknowledges organisations’ initiatives to create sustainable relationships, company competitiveness and enhanced performance. It also recognises the importance of getting the best out of business relationships by sharing resources and opportunities.

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French construction materials group Lafarge has partnered with weighing instrument specialist Precia Molen to develop a system for the recomposing of aggregates and commercial weighing at the Signes site, with a capacity of 1,500tonnes.

Using Precia Molen' XKV volumetric extractors located in a 5m tunnel, the system guarantees consistent production quality and allows the site to adapt to the needs of each client.

The loading system has become fully automatic, with Lafarge's head of operations, Thierry

Atlas Copco has introduced a range of eight drum cutter attachments to its range of Construction Tools. The DC drum cutter range is available with service weights from 200kg-2,900kg, and is suitable for carriers of 1-50tonnes.

“Our drum cutters are an excellent choice for rock or concrete wall and surface profiling, trenching, frozen soil excavation, soft rock excavation in quarries, demolition, and dredging,” says Gordon Hambach, product line manager Power Demolition Tools.

“They are a complementary

Construction of the new 73-storey, 335m tall new Wilshire Grand mixed-use building for owner/developer Korean Air in Los Angeles, USA, started in February 2014 and has already claimed the world’s largest continuous concrete pour.

The 16,200m³ pour, for the foundations some 24-29m below street level, gained a place in the Guinness World Records and beat the existing record set by The Venetian hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, in 1999, says Guinness World Records’ Michael Empric.

The project

Martin Engineering RSA has named Fluid Base Industries as its full-service distributor in Zambia.

The company says the move is designed to broaden the availability of high-performance bulk material handling technologies in Southern Africa.

Fluid Base will be a source for all Martin Engineering RSA products and services throughout the country, including conveyor belt cleaners, transfer point solutions, flow aids, safety products and training, belt support products, silo cleaning and other field se

Ciments de l’Afrique (CIMAF), a Moroccan construction company, will construct a US$83.2 million cement factory in Tema, Ghana’s industrial city.

This follows an agreement signed between the company and the Ghanaian government.

On completion, the factory will have the capacity to produce 1 million tonnes of cement annually, according to CIMAF Ghana, a parent company of the Moroccan construction giant.

Nigeria’s recalculated economy is worth $510 billion and is now by far the biggest in Africa, outstripping South Africa, and becoming 26th globally, ahead of Austria.

A revolutionary VSI crusher from Sandvik Construction has helped O’Ahu-based Hawaii company, Hawaiian Cement, supply badly needed aggregates and cement products for the island’s construction industry. Before adopting the CV229 from Sandvik (pictured), the company had to import sand from British Columbia, Canada, over 3,200km away.

The initial scope of the Metso/LiuGong joint venture will cover the design and manufacture of Chinese versions of Metso’s Lokotrack mobile crushers and screens. With the first expected to be launched soon, the products, whose range may be further expanded in the future, will be sold under dual branding LiuGong Metso. The joint venture will also promote Metso’s global trackmounted crushing and screening equipment in China.

Metso and Guangxi Liugong Group have obtained all necessary approvals from the Chin