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Over the past 20 years Peter Slater has developed into one of the largest suppliers of crushers and screeners for hire throughout the UK. The company started as Peter Slater Plant Hire in 1980 with a JCB 3C, and in 1994, anticipating the demand for reclaiming brownfield sites and appreciating the inherit value in old masonry and hard landscaping materials, Lancashire Crushers was created. It is based in Preston, County Lancashire, north-west England.

It has been reported that Holcim Croatia building materials company has appointed Alan Sisinacki as its new president, effective from the beginning of July 2013. He has replaced Mario Grassle. Sisinacki has been working for Holcim since 2006.

CRH has made 17 acquisition and investment initiatives during the first half of 2013. These transactions, together with the acquisition of Cementos Lemona in Spain (acquired as part of the Uniland asset swap announced in February) and net deferred consideration payments, bring development spend for the first half of 2013 to approximately €470 million. Proceeds to date from divestments and disposals, including the Uniland swap, amount to approximately €185 million. “The group has continued in 2013 to develop

In Liberia, HeidelbergCement has successfully commissioned a new cement mill at its cement grinding plant in the capital city of Monrovia. The investment in the new mill, which has an annual capacity of 0.5 million tonnes, amounted to US$14 million (€10.7 million). The Liberian subsidiary Cemenco is the only cement producer in Liberia and has a strong market position. The company is part of HeidelbergCement’s network of cement grinding facilities on the West African coast supporting the Group’s regional str

Cemex in collaboration with BirdLife International has developed a new inspiring publication that captures the company’s approach tobiodiversity conservation. The launch of this publication signals significant progress in the company’s ten-year global conservation partnership with Birdlife International, the world’s largest civil society partnership for nature. Supported by CEMEX’s team in Switzerland, Cemex and BirdLife have worked together since 2007 to increase the environmental sustainability of Cemex’s

The Hitachi Construction Machinery Europe (HCME) wholly-owned subsidiary and UK dealer, HM Plant, is celebrating a new partnership with Coleg Menai (Menai College) in Wales. The agreement will see the delivery of three of the latest Hitachi Zaxis excavators to the new Heavy Plant Training Centre at the college’s Llangefni campus. The ZX48U-5 mini, and ZX135US-5 and ZX225USRLC-5 medium excavators will be used to train local people in the skills needed to work on construction sites on Anglesey (and beyond) at

Earthline is building-up flexible configurations to meet a variety of processing requirements, with machinery supplied by Finlay Plant SW at its Shipton Quarry site, near Oxford, England. Latest additions to the Terex Finlay fleet include a J1175 Jaw Crusher, as well as 863 and 883 heavy duty screens. They join existing Terex Finlay machines including two 683 inclined screens, another J1175 Jaw Crusher and a C1540 Cone Crusher, which all work in unison to process limestone quarried at the Oxfordshire-based

The Mineral Products Association (MPA) has welcome the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer’s commitment to increase public investment to over £50 billion (€58.4 billion) per year from 2015/16 and welcomes the announcements on infrastructure, but remains concerned about the need for short term investment prior to the election. Nigel Jackson, chief executive MPA, said: “We have heard the words, we now need a greater sense of urgency and accelerated delivery to create confidence for the private sector to invest to

Xavier Dedullen has been appointed head of the newly-created Holcim legal and compliance function, as well as group general counsel. as corporate functional manager he becomes a member of holcim senior management, reportings directly to the group CEO with a functional dotted line to the board of directors. As chief legal and compliance officer and group general counsel, he assumes responsibility for all legal and compliance matters.

It is reported that Cemex has halted production at its mortar plant in Cartagena, Murcia, Spain due to the state of the economy and construction market in Spain. The company has reduced its production capacity in Spain by 60%. A total of €47 million was invested into the plant, which was constructed in 2006. It has the capacity to produce 1 million tonnes of cement and 200,000tonnes of dry mortar per year.

HeidelbergCement has outlined plans for expansion of the company’s Biodiversity Action Plan as a key element of the group’s business model and sustainability strategy. At an event in connection with the recent BirdLife World Congress, the company, together with BirdLife International, has developed a Biodiversity Conservation Programme for Europe, which complements the existing internal policies and guidelines.

IronPlanet has appointed Jethran Roeten as it new representative in the Benelux (Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxemburg) region. Felipe Fernández-Urrutia Massó, Europe major accounts director at IronPlanet said: “Jethran has over 18 years’ experience working in the international used equipment industry, especially throughout Benelux, making him a perfect fit to grow IronPlanet’s business in this region. We are thrilled to have him on board, and I am sure his extensive skillset will be a great asset to IronP

In France, cellular concrete producer Cellumat received the Élu produit du BTP par les professionnels label for its Thermoruptor solution during a ceremony organised by Sageret. Thermoruptor is designed to eliminate thermal bridges and compries cellular concrete panels and blocks. The label indicates that Cellumat's Thermoruptor solution was chosen by professionals as being one of the best. The company can use the label on its sales and marketing tools relating to the product.