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Terex Finlay will be exhibiting at the inaugural bauma Africa exhibition with Bell Equipment, its new distributor in Southern Africa.

Four Terex Finlay models will be exhibited at the keenly awaited show, including the new I-100 impact crusher that was officially launched at bauma 2013 in Munich, Germany.

“We look forward to attending the first bauma Africa show. It will allow us to reconnect with existing customers, and to meet new customers, together with our distributor Bell Equipment,” said Nigel

Mexican building materials company Cemex has spent €1.12 billion working on 1,000 social schemes in 12 countries.

The firm has schemes like ‘Patrimonio Hoy’ (Property Now), a housing microfinance programme helping low income households build their own homes. Cemex has social schemes running in countries including Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Haiti, Colombia and Mexico, and soon in Jamaica too. Schemes have been implemented in Spain and Israel. The Czech Republic will follow.

According to the research institute GfK, Austria's construction related markets suffered from poor weather conditions in the first half of 2013.

The garden season was delayed due to the cold weather in March 2013, leading to 6.7% lower sales in the first six months of 2013 compared to the same period of the previous year.

The building and construction wood sector was also delayed due to the weather, and the peak season was in May instead of April 2013. This caused the sector to decrease by 5.4% in t

Swiss cement manufacturer Holcim plans to use lignite instead of hard coal to produce energy at its Siggenthal plant in Switzerland from later in 2013.

The move has been criticised by environmental associations, as lignite produces more CO2 and less energy than hard coal.

The plant will be supplied with 1,500tonnes of lignite per week, and Holcim is to construct a new steel silo for storage and two additional platforms for the supply trains.

Holcim has made the change for economic and ecological re

Slovak stone masonry company Mramor is considering to create with the Chinese businessman Liu Longjun a joint venture, which would focus on importing natural stone from China to the Central Europe.

While Liu Longjun is keen to gain access to the European market, Mramor hopes to secure a supply of cheap high quality natural stone, which it would then sell further to smaller stone masonry companies in Slovakia.

While there are no firm plans in place yet, the investment could amount to several millions

According to Ivan Andreev, the executive director of Bulgarian mining chamber BMGK, mineral resource production in the country fell by 7% on year in 2012, equivalent to a drop of 6.28 million tonnes. Most mining sub-sectors saw declines in output, with the exception of natural stone materials, which was up by 10%, and metallic mineral resources, which rose by 1%.

Total mineral resource production for 2012 reached 85.654 million tonnes.

Total value of production rose by 7.1% to reach BGN 2.97 billion

The European Commission has initiated a formal investigation regarding the Aggregates Levy, which has been welcomed by the British Aggregates Association (BAA).

The BAA is of the opinion that the £2 €2.33) per tonne tax on the commercial exploitation of sand, rock and gravel is illegal and has forced some quarry operators out of business.

The tax was introduced in 2002 and a long legal fight by the BAA has resulted in a Court of Appeal hearing on 8 October, 2013.

Austrian company SBM Mineral Processing (SBM) is to take over the concrete segment of the insolvent Austrian industrial plant engineering company Doubrava in Attnang-Puchheim, Upper Austria.

Insolvent Doubrava is disposing of decades of know-how in the field of manufacturing high-quality concrete plants.

“Acquiring this know-how ideally supplements the product portfolio of SBM Mineral Processing,” according to the owners of SBM, KR Erwin Haider, KR Mag. Heinrich Obernhuber and the company Krünes Cons

Russia’s Evraz Kachkanarsky Ore Mining and Processing Enterprise (Evraz KGOK, a subsidiary of Evraz Group) has completed the first phase of its project to increase its crushed stone shipping capacity.

The project started in April 2013 with investments amounting to RUB 17 million (€387,067.24), and the first phase featured delivering a heavy vehicle complex; a standby storage for crushed stone, and a shipment fiscal metering complex.