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HCSS, a leading U.S.-headquartered provider of innovative software that helps heavy civil businesses streamline their operations, is offering key insights about the future of construction via its customers, who are leaders in the construction market. 

CEMEX is helping to meet growing customer demand for its products by adding 10 new lower emission tippers to its fleet, which boast upgraded safety features, a higher payload for increased efficiency and a step change in decarbonisation of its delivery vehicles.

The American construction industry added 16,000 jobs on net in August, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of data released today by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. On a year-over-year basis, industry employment has risen by 311,000 jobs or 4.2%.

Gulf Coast Sand (GCS), a large U.S. privately-owned and independent producer and supplier of specialised sands, blended sands, and abrasives, has acquired the assets of Shale Support. With this move, GCS establishes itself as the largest independent, privately-owned aggregate company along the Gulf Coast and boasts more than 900 mineable acres of aggregate reserves.

Building materials giant CEMEX has completed the US$329m sale of its operations in Costa Rica and El Salvador to Cementos Progreso Holdings.

Rokbak employees were today celebrating the articulated haul truck brand’s one-year anniversary. Marking the occasion, the company’s Managing Director, Paul Douglas, has revealed the full story behind the rebrand.

Lehigh Hanson has received approximately US$3.7 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) to conduct a front-end engineering design (FEED) study retrofitting Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America's (MHIA's) carbon capture technology at its new state-of-the-art cement plant in Mitchell, Indiana.

Astec Industries’ Materials Solutions Group has launched its newest mobile high-frequency screening plant, the GT2612V.

The impact of spiraling energy costs to the UK’s mineral products industry has prompted manufacturers to write to Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi today.

Electrified quarry mobile processing plant manufacturer Rubble Master will highlight during bauma 2022 in Munich, Germany (24-30 October) how its innovative machines can ensure customers up to 25% operating savings.

The American construction industry had 375,000 job openings in July, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey. JOLTS defines a job opening as any unfilled position for which an employer is actively recruiting.