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Euro Auctions saw higher turn-outs, brisk trading and strong prices achieved at its recent three-day auction in Leeds, northern England, where 3,559 lots realised a total hammer price of over £28 million (€31.45 million).

The company says that the high quality of equipment together with a strong Euro and a record 1,800+ bidders registering (7% of whom were first time buyers with a large proportion of the total coming from overseas) resulted in a bumper sale.

A high proportion of the lots sold went to

The scale and magnitude of rock mining is directly linked to the demand for the raw material.

This, says the organiser, Geoplan, is the reason why the excavation level in the trade fair quarry forecasted for the time of the Steinexpo 2017 exhibition has been reached earlier.

This means that the area available for the demonstration exhibition will be larger than originally expected, providing more companies with optimal presentation opportunities.

The stone quarry demonstration exhibition had its pr

Construction materials supplier Aggregate Industries’ subsidiary, Yeoman Halsvik, has successfully helped to stabilise the wreck of a World War II submarine, outside the island of Fedje on the west coast of Norway.

The German submarine U-864 was sunk by the British in 1945, while heading to Japan to transport war load, including a large quantity of mercury. Due to the torpedo attack, the submarine was divided into sections and sunk to a depth of 145m-160m.

The shipwreck was located in March 2003 by th

HeidelbergCement has completed the sale of operations in Belgium, primarily consisting of Italcementi’s Belgian subsidiary Compagnie des Ciments Belges, to an affiliate of Cementir Holding.

Previously, the European Commission had approved the agreement.

The transaction has an enterprise value of €312 million on a cash and debt-free basis.

“With the disposal of the Belgium assets we fulfill the obligation of the European Commission and improve the net financial position of HeidelbergCement after th

A new agreement between IHI and Kato will see the two firms joining their construction machine operations together. IHI Corporation (IHI) announced has agreed to transfer all the shares in its wholly‐owned IHI Construction Machinery business to Kato Works.

The move will expand the product line-up for mini‐excavators, crawler cranes and other crawler equipment. All current facilities and network including overseas will remain without major changes for the time being. The two companies will assimilate ove

Goodyear is introducing the RM-4B+ off the road (OTR) tyre range for rigid dump trucks in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region.

After successful performances in the United States, the new OTR range, which includes several new sizes, is now available to customers in EMEA.

The range comprises five sizes for vehicles operating in severe conditions; including on terrain such as rock and aggregates as well as on hard improved surfaces.

The Goodyear RM-4B+ range features 170-level tread dept

Cemex has said that the winner of the 2016 Lorenzo H. Zambrano Lifetime Achievement Award is British civil, structural, highway, and environmental engineer, Peter Head.

Celebrating the 25th anniversary of Cemex Building Award, the company recognises Head for his pioneering vision and remarkable efforts and achievements in sustainable urban development.

Peter Head is recognised for developing global practices that demonstrate the effectiveness of sustainable construction. He has promoted the use of con

Construction machinery operators from 15 countries across Europe, Middle East and Africa gathered at the Case Customer Centre Paris, France, to compete in the final of the 2016 Case Rodeo operator challenge.

Following four highly technical challenges, French operator Ludovic Fronteau emerged victorious, lifting the trophy and winning the 2016 title, while Denmark grabbed the country team prize.

The operators took to the controls of a range of Case machinery to hone their skills in the complex challeng

Dino Maggioni, 48, is the new chief executive officer of the Marangoni Group.

The company shareholders and board of directors gave their appreciations to former CEO Massimo De Alessandri for his commitment to the company.

Dino Maggioni graduated in electronic engineering at Politecnico di Milano, Italy, and is a manager with a long international experience in the automotive sector.

In 2015 he left CNH Industrial to join the tyre maker Pirelli with the objective of completing the separation of the I

Play Bench, designed by Denis Santachiara for Costa Paolo, within the scope of the New Marble Generation exhibition is the winner of the Icon Award at Marmomac, and becomes the new image for the Marmomac 2017 communication campaign.

The work was chosen from the installations on show in The Italian Stone Theatre, the hall implemented by Marmomac in collaboration with the Ministry for Economic Development; ICE-Italian Trade Agency, and Confindustria Marmomacchine, as part of the special Made in Italy Promo

To support the city of Binyang, located in the Guangxi region of south-west China, in its efforts to reduce the city's urban and industrial waste, China Resources Cement (CRC) and FLSmidth have joined forces to come up with a solution for CRC's Hongshuihe cement plant.

To economically process the raw waste, characterised by high moisture and low-burn value, FLSmidth installed a pyro co-processing system, a HOTDISC, consuming 300tonnes/day of waste to ensure the Hongshuihe plant's daily production of 3,20

Breedon Group’s £336 million acquisition of Hope Construction Materials earlier this year has been recognised with a coveted ‘Transaction of the Year’ award at the recent 2016 AIM Awards in London.

The award was presented by BBC news anchor Sophie Raworth to Breedon Group Chief Executive Pat Ward, Group Finance Director Rob Wood and Group Services Director Ross McDonald at a glittering ceremony at Old Billingsgate.

The award is given in recognition of “a significant achievement by a company in transfo