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SigmaRoc built on strong second half of 2019 trading by performing ahead of budget and analyst estimates in the first quarter of 2020, despite significant weather disruption and flooding across the UK and the Channel Islands, and the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The World Cement Association says that several of its Chinese members have offered to mobilise their resources to donate face masks to WCA members who are finding it difficult to secure supplies locally.

The Hitachi Construction Machinery Group plans to gradually adjust production in four of its seven Japanese plants from April to May for integrated production, assembly and painting.

Rapid International has recently commissioned one of its new Rapidmix 400CW mobile continuous concrete mixing plants (pugmills) for Thalle Construction in Leonard, Texas.

Excavators are versatile machines and there is no one-size-fits all bucket for every job, according to Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE).

CEMEX has announced that it is resuming operations in Mexico to support the development and economy of the country during the COVID-19 contingency.

The Concrete Sustainability Council (CSC) has awarded a CSC Gold certificate to the first 13 plants of Heidelberger Sand und Kies - currently the highest achievable rating for CSC aggregate certifications.

Building solutions business Tarmac has started an employee-led campaign to donate personal protective equipment (PPE) to hospitals and NHS and social care workers across the UK.

Swedish aggregates group Peab has received approval from the EU Commission to finalise its SEK 3billion (€272.9mn) acquisition of YIT’s Nordic paving and mineral aggregates business in Finland, Norway, Denmark and Sweden.

Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) has highlighted how excavator operators in the northern hemisphere can ensure their machines are in prime condition for the warmer spring conditions.

Building materials provider Breedon Group has suspended production at all its sites in the Republic of Irleand.

Caterpillar chief executive officer Jim Umpleby, other senior executives, management and salaried workers will not get a pay increase in 2020 as part of the world's biggest off-highway machine maker's efforts to cut costs during the coronavirus pandemic, Bloomberg news agency reports. They also won’t receive the payout outlined under an annual incentive plan.

Building materials supplier CEMEX says it has successfully completed a project to supply over 25,000 tonnes of asphalt to RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire, UK while ensuring the site remained operational at all times.