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Cement group Cemex has received ISO 14001 environmental certification for its quarry in Montrevel-en-Bresse. The site has a production capacity of 400,000tonnes/year.

Metso is supplying a primary crusher and grinding equipment to B2Gold Namibia for its Greenfield Otjikoto gold mine project in Namibia. After completion by the end of 2014, the new mine will produce 4,385kg of gold annually in the first five years of full operation. The complete value of the order exceeds €8 million. Metso's delivery consists of a primary gyratory crusher for processing of run-of-mine gold ore, and a semi-autogenous grinding mill and a ball mill for secondary grinding. The crusher will be d

Aggregate Processing Solutions (APS) has secured a contract with Smiths & Sons (Bletchington) to deliver a high technology, recycled aggregate washing system. APS, the specialist washing arm of the Finlay Group, is providing a complete system to the long-established County Oxfordshire, England-based company, which based at Enslow near Bletchington,. CDE washing equipment comprising of an M2500 mobile washing plant, AggMax 83 portable logwasher assembly, A400 Aquacycle and an Aquastore 55 complete with a ce

The Beumer Group has celebrated the official opening of the new factory building in Thailand, located in the eastern Chachoengsao Province. In a festive ceremony, the German ambassador Rolf Schulze congratulated the company on completion of the construction and praised the commitment shown by the Beckum-based family company in the Kingdom of Thailand. The newly-built premises covering 2,000m² will allow Beumer to increase its production for the Asian market. Dr Christoph Beumer, chairman and CEO of the grou

Turnover of Holcim (Deutschland) fell from €392 million to €378 million in 2012 while operating result changed from a profit of €28.8 million to a loss of €29.9 million. In the binding agents segment, sales in terms of value and volume were said to be disappointing but in the aggregate segment, sales in terms of volume met expectations. The ready-mix concrete unit failed to meet expectations and operating profit was poor.

FLSmidth has received an order worth approximately INR 1,900 million (approximately DKK 200 million/€27 million) from a leading Indian steel producer, Tata Steel, to supply two pipe conveyors for transport of 6 million tonnes/year of iron ore over a distance of around 9km from the steel company's Khondbond mines to the railway loading point at Joda in the state of Odisha, located on the east coast of India. The scope of supply includes two pipe conveyors with a total conveying capacity of 1,400tonnes/hour.

Leading international equipment services specialist Zero48 is Terex Construction’s first dealer in West Africa. The move is said to further strengthen Terex Construction’s global dealer network and to meet customer needs in the region. Zero48, through its subsidiary company, IBS, will distribute Terex construction equipment in Guinea and will initially focus on selling Terex articulated and rigid trucks, and other construction products, with a plan to distribute more of the Terex range in the future. With G

Metso says it is continuing to expand its industry-leading global service hub network by opening a mining service hub in Chile. The company says the centre in Antofagasta strengthens its “already solid position” in South America and allows the company to immediately respond to the requirements of its key mining customers in the region. "Chile is Latin America's largest and most advanced mining market and will remain so for a long time. Strengthening local service operations is a vital part of our continuing

The Lafarge group of companies (France), jointly with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), has established an enterprise producing road metal and sand goods with a capacity of 600,000 tonnes/year in the village of Ispas (Vyzhnytsky district, Chernivtsi region), Ukraine. "We plan to reach the designed capacity of the enterprise this season (April-November)," the deputy director general for public relations at the business department of Lafarge Crushed Ukraine (Kyiv), Oleksandr Rozhnov

Continuing its investment in the development of a range of super-silenced pumps, Sykes Pumps has launched its new MH150/100 Super Wispaset. Applications include pressure testing, batching plant washing, emergency or temporary fire mains and any situation where high vertical and/or long discharge runs are required. Employing a 129kW Iveco engine, the unit is capable of heads up to 105m, with a maximum flow rate of 320m³/hour and noise levels down to an average of 70dBA at 7m. The pump is set to run at 1,800r

Getech is introducing its largest model of high performance centrifuge for sludge dewatering in the construction industry. “We have built up extensive knowledge in the last 20 years of processing silts from aggregates, dewatering sludge from the construction of foundations, from quarries, from sand and gravel washing and also recovery of bentonite from weighted mud in vertical drilling applications,” says the company. “Nowadays we are able to offer solutions for individual applications using the very best t

Sometimes it requires an extra effort to get machinery safely to its destination. Two Metso Lokotracks were recently hauled up the Swiss Alps using a cableway during an extraordinary and demanding operation. The Lokotrack LT96 jaw plant’s destination was at an altitude of 2,474m. Sometime later, a new Lokotrack ST3.5 mobile screen was lifted to the screening site at an altitude of 1,857m. Accurate calculation and planning was needed before the transportation could take place using two different cableways.