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BHS-Sonthofen has set up the joint venture BHS-Sonthofen (Aust) in Australia.

The newly-established company employs a service team of specialists who have been familiar with BHS machines for many years, and it is equipped with several test machines and a spare parts warehouse.

The company says the demand for mixing, crushing, and recycling machines from BHS-Sonthofen in Australia is continuously increasing.

BHS mixers in Australia, for example, have been instrumental in backfilling mines for many y

The national infrastructure development is believed to have boosted cement sales in Indonesia since August 2015.

Out of the overall bulk cement sale, some 50% is for national infrastructure development, according to Semen Indonesia's managing director Suparn, who also believes that until the end of 2015 the cement sale increase is set to be between 2% and 3% year-on-year.

A 17.8% hike has been seen in the national cement consumption starting in August 2015, and additionally, the demand for both Septem

Jordan-listed Northern Cement Company has registered a 24.15% drop in its profits in the January to June 2015 period to JOD 7.42 million (€9.74 million/US$10.48 million).

The cement company has recorded a 22.7% decline in its profit in the January to September 2015 period from JOD 14.1 million in the same period in 2014, to JOD 10.9 million.

Lafarge has invested €600,000 (US$646,128.59) replacing the hoop of its furnace at its cement factory in Bouc Bel Air, southern France.

The hoop, which weighs on average 70tonnes, is a central mechanical part of the oven, allowing the cooking of material coming from the quarry.

It is changed on average every 60 years. The work was carried out by Cofely Endel of the GDF Suez group, and required around 30 employees and the furnace to be shut down for three weeks.

The Bouc Bel Air factory has a produc

Following the merger between their respective parent organisations, cement manufacturers Holcim Vietnam and Lafarge Vietnam have merged, with the transaction set to complete in 2015.

The arrangement will help LafargeHolcim to optimise the production with respect to oversupply- a challenge currently encountered by many local cement producers.

Lafarge Vietnam accounts for 12% market share in Vietnam, while Holcim Vietnam accounts for 26% share, with their main products being concrete, cement and aggreg

There's been a buzz around Mone Brothers' Blackhill Quarry site in Bramhope, County West Yorkshire, northern England, in recent months with over 75,000 workers delivering the sweet taste of honey.

The worker bees, based in three hives on the quarry site, have managed to produce twelve 370g jars which were sold on a first-come, first-served basis. Bees wax and candles are also available.

“This really is the bees-knees in what is Mone Brothers golden anniversary year. It's proof that there are many bene

Aggregate Industries’ Colemans Quarry site has become the first asphalt plant in the UK , and the second in the world, to make the switch to liquefied natural gas (LNG), cutting both costs and carbon emissions with the help of Calor.

Based in County Somerset, south-west England, the plant has been supplying the construction industry with building material for more than 60 years. It uses large quantities of gas to heat and dry the 250,000tonnes of asphalt produced each year, and as the site is active 24/7

Hitachi Construction Machinery (Europe) (HCME) has appointed new dealers for the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

NET is to be the exclusive distributor of its construction equipment in the Czech Republic, while EURO stroj Slovaki, based in Bratislava, will cover that country.

The agreement applies to mini, medium and large Zaxis excavators; rigid dump trucks, and ZW wheeled loaders. It also covers special application machines, light compaction equipment and Hitachi Sumitomo crawler cranes.

LiuGong held its 12th Global Dealer Conference in Nanning when the theme was Rise to Challenge and Embrace the Future.

Approximately 300 representatives, comprising of LiuGong dealers from more than 50 countries and over 100 guests including key customers and government officials, attended.

LiuGong chairman Zeng Guang’an; president Yu Chuanfeng and a leadership contingent will also be in attendance. Throughout the two-day meeting, the company and its global dealers reviewed the performance from the pa

Caterpillar warns it does not expect Chinese demand for excavators to recover to the peaks of 2010-12, reports the UK’s Financial Times newspaper.

Tom Pellette, group president for construction industry equipment, made the remarks as the Chinese economy recorded its slowest growth rate since 2009 in the third quarter, due to declining construction and factory activity, which many economists do not believe has bottomed out yet.

The forecasts also highlight Beijing’s efforts to rebalance the economy awa

Next year’s Hillhead is on target to have more exhibitors and demonstrations than at any previous staging of the globally renowned quarrying and construction equipment event. And with seven months still to go before Hillhead 2016 opens its doors, exhibition organisers say it’s already heading towards being another sell out.

Major players including Terex Group, Volvo, JCB, Komatsu, Case, Sandvik, Hyundai, Bell, Liebherr, Doosan, Bell, Atlas Copco, Bomag, Wirtgen and McCloskey are all rebooked for the even

Martin Engineering, the US-headquartered belt conveyor technology specialist, has taken exclusive responsibility for sales of the CleanScrape Cleaner in all of Europe as well as in Russia, North Africa and the Middle East.

The innovative belt cleaning system received the Australian Bulk Handling Award in the Innovative Technology category in 2013 for its claimed design and potential benefits, which include low belt wear, extended service life, reduced maintenance and improved safety, said to ultimately

David Beatenbough, LiuGong Machinery’s vice president R&D, has been chosen as a 2015 China State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs (SAFEA) ‘Friendship Award’ recipient.

The Friendship Award is the Chinese government’s highest honour to foreign experts who have made outstanding contributions to their industry and to China.

A senior executive at LiuGong for the past eight years, US national Beatenbough has been dedicated to improving LiuGong’s Research & Development work. Under his guidance, Li