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A new report from the Portland Cement Association (PCA), titled The Real Value of Resilient Construction, stresses the importance of resiliency in construction and design.

The report demonstrates through historical data, evidence from external sources, and comparisons of building materials that resilient design and construction built with concrete leads to longer lasting buildings due to concrete’s ability to stand up to normal wear and tear and resistance to extreme weather events.

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The Mineral Products Association (MPA) has published a briefing ‘Sand Supply – a UK Perspective on a Global Issue’ as a contribution to the current global debate regarding the availability, access to and consumption of sand.

In recent years there has been increasing attention on the demand for sand, the potential for global shortages and the consequences of unregulated extraction as the link has been made between the societal demands for homes and infrastructure and the associated pressures that this ca

A leading Russian limestone quarry is said to have achieved an annual saving of €7,900 after switching its Hitachi excavators to ExxonMobil’s Mobil DTE 10 Excel 46 hydraulic oil. The use of the high performance hydraulic oil, which is specifically formulated for use in modern mobile equipment, extended oil drain intervals by 25% and also reduced filter replacements.

The mining company was having to drain its existing hydraulic oil every 4,000 hours but was aware that a better performance might be possibl

FLSmidth has launched the ECS/UptimeGo downtime analysis solution designed to increase mining and cement production plant uptime by identifying the causes of equipment failures.

Unplanned downtime costs businesses billions of dollars each year globally. For cement and mining customers, the impact of plant and equipment failures can be enormous: production stoppages and reduced productivity.

ECS/UptimeGo’s real-time dashboards and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) enable the measurement of the real imp

Indonesian contractor PT Sarana Karya Cipta Transindo said value for money was a key factor in its purchase of a fuel-efficient SDLG LG936L wheeled loader for handling high quality aggregate products at Holcim’s concrete plant in Bandung, Indonesia.

“The LG936L has really improved efficiency and operations at the plant,” said Rieko Stevanus, owner of PT Sarana Karya Cipta Transindo. “It’s smooth and reliable performance allows us to move up to 65m³ per hour.”

On site since April 2018, the LG936L work

With the ever-increasing complexity of demands that health and safety places on the quarrying industry, the UK’s Institute of Quarrying (IQ) has completely overhauled its go-to reference book ‘Health & Safety Law in Quarries’.

It has now been produced in two volumes; the first volume covers the Health and Safety and Work Act and the requirements of the Quarries Regulations (1999). The second volume covers other related legislation and relevant case law.

The original Health and Safety Law in Quarries b

CEMEX has supplied around 16,000m³ of ready-mixed concrete for the expansion of the Continental Automotive Group’s technology development center in Regensburg, Germany.

CEMEX Germany produced different types of products such as concrete of various compressive strengths and cement with low hydration heat development for the construction project on Siemensstraße in Regensburg. With the biggest order produced by CEMEX during 2018, the total quantity supplied amounted to approximately 16,000m³.

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FLSmidth, a Denmark-headquartered globally renowned supplier of systems, equipment, services and products to the cement and minerals industries, saw its order intake during Q1 2019 total DKK 5.6bn (€750.02mn), including two large cement orders from Paraguay and Vietnam. The group’s order backlog grew to DKK 17.8bn (€2.384bn), its highest level since 2013 and up from DKK 13.9bn (€1.861bn) at the same time last year.

Speaking about the first quarter of 2019 figures, FL Smidth Group CEO Thomas Schulz said: