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UK-based SigmaRoc more than doubled its pre-tax profits for the year ended 31 December 2018.
The AIM listed buy-and-build construction materials group posted an underlying profit before tax of £5.5m for calendar year 2018, up by 113.8% from £2.6m in 2017.
Underlying revenue for 2018 increased by 52% to £41.2m from £27.2m in the preceding year.
The company also nearly doubled underlying earnings per share (EPS) from 2.02p to 3.83p in 2018, while reducing gearing and making substantial investments back int

Tarmac says it has revolutionised the production and delivery of its ready-mixed concrete with innovative software that improves product quality and data accuracy to boost site productivity and resource efficiency.

The Tarmac Assure system, which the company has installed across its entire UK ready-mixed fleet, collects data to measure, manage and record concrete quality at the plant, in transit and on site. Water is automatically added to ensure the material reaches its target consistency or ‘slump’.

The First Minister of Wales has praised the "enormous contribution" that the mineral products industry makes to Wales and its economy.

The Rt Hon Mark Drakeford AM was addressing 110 delegates from 40 organisations at the annual Mineral Products Association (MPA) Wales Seminar, Planning Workshop and Lunch on May 10.

The First Minister said: “Whatever the future looks like, we will always need a wide and diverse range of minerals to power and build the future we need. You provide many of the jobs and

The Mineral Products Association (MPA) has launched a new briefing ‘The Contribution of Recycled and Secondary Materials to Total Aggregates Supply in Great Britain’ highlighting that the aggregates industry is one of the UK’s recycling and circular economy success stories.

Over 70 million tonnes of materials from a range of sources are re-used in GB aggregates markets and 90% of these recycled materials are sourced from construction activity, following demolition work and road repairs.

While there i

The recent global dealer network meeting held by Finnish crushing and screening hydraulic bucket attachment maker ALLU attracted close to 100 representatives.

During the meeting the dealers were given a series of seminars, workshops and a walk-through of the production process aimed at providing them with the latest developments and application thinking concerning the ALLU product lines such as Transformer and Processor.

ALLU has recently placed great deal emphasis on growing its dealer and distributo

Danish company EMS Brüel & Kjaer has released a new EMU Environmental Monitoring Unit (EMU) that is capable of measuring noise, vibration, weather and blast overpressure simultaneously.

The device is suitable for a range of applications in quarrying, mining and construction, including outdoor monitoring for compliance assessment, background measurements or specific studies around quarries, airports, mines, construction sites, ports and other industries.

EMS Brüel & Kjaer says the EMU combines everythi

Volvo CE is staging a UK exhibition that will showcase LEGO represenatations of construction machines of the future that have been designed by members of the public.

The FutuRE:BUILD exhibition, arranged by Volvo CE in partnership with LEGO Technic - takes place at the London Transport Museum Covent Garden, London, from May 10–16.

Volvo CE and LEGO Technic invited members of the public from around the world to come up with their own inventive concepts for future construction machines.

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Dr Andrew Minson, concrete and sustainable construction director at the Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA) joined leaders in the built environment at a key global summit in New York to give a rallying call on the importance of concrete and modernising the construction sector for the future needs of the world.

Speaking at yesterday’s (Monday 13 May) annual ‘World Built Environment Forum Summit 2019’ alongside innovators and global influencers, Dr Minson set out the sector’s role in responding t

Engineering and design services company Wood has adopted the Delair UX11 high-performance UAV drone for its work in site planning and asset management on quarry and mining projects in the western US.

Wood is initially deploying the drone to do high accuracy, 3D topographic surveys and materials quantification for mineral mining in Idaho and Wyoming. It is the first fixed-wing UAV Wood has deployed in the western US.

“For the scale of the projects we are performing, and the accuracy required, adopting

A UN report has warned of unsustainable extraction of sand in some parts of the world.

The "Sand and Sustainability" report was published by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), which says that sand and gravel extraction is one of the major sustainability challenges of the 21st century.

The report states that, while there is no global monitoring on the use of sand, cement production (which is highly correlated to the use of sand and gravels) is well reported. Tracking this data shows that t