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Agrimaq Rental and Sale has been appointed as the new Doosan dealer for the provinces of Valladolid and Salamanca by Centrocar, the exclusive importer for the Doosan Construction Equipment range in Spain, Portugal, Angola and Mozambique.

Agrimaq has extensive experience in the sale and rental of machinery for the construction, maintenance, agriculture and livestock sectors in Valladolid and Salamanca. The company has impressive facilities with 5000 m2 of covered space and another 12,000 m2 of open areas for exhibiting and demonstrating equipment.

McCloskey International has unveiled the latest entry into its jaw crusher line in the European market, the heavy-duty J4.

The crushers are particularly suited to aggregates, construction and demolition recycling, and site preparation.

The crushing and screening equipment manufacturer says the J4 builds on the robust features of the existing product range, with a line-up of features aimed at boosting productivity and offering enhanced durability across applications.

Heidelberg Materials has today completed the sale of its business in Southern Spain. The Germany-headquartered global building materials major sold its integrated cement plant in Malaga , three aggregates sites and 11 ready-mixed concrete production facilities in Andalusia to Votorantim Cimentos.

With the sale, Heidelberg Materials reaches another milestone of its promise to re-focus on its core geographies in Western and Southern Europe.

Volvo Penta has unveiled its new dual-fuel hydrogen engine at the bauma expo in Munich, as well as giving an update on how it is ramping up progress in its services offering.

Tyres supplied by India-based BKT are proving their worth on rigid dump trucks operating at a Spanish quarry.

Finnish materials technology company Betolar has appointed Riku Kytömäki as its new CEO and president.

The US construction industry had 422,000 job openings in September, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors' (ABC) analysis of data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS).

Reporting robust decarbonisation results, Greece-based TITAN Group has strengthened its commitment to net zero and updated its science-based CO2 targets to levels aligned with limiting the global temperature increase to 1.5°C. The new targets have been submitted to the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) for validation.

Set against the backdrop of the historic IET London: Savoy Place and in front of senior industry professionals, the Institute of Quarrying (IQ) and Institute of Asphalt Technology (IAT) have praised the high-performing students from the University of Derby Centre for Mineral Products at a joint awards ceremony.

The US economy expanded at a 2.6% annualised rate in the third quarter of 2022, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) analysis of data released today by the US Bureau of Economic Analysis.