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Bumi Suria Ventures and Blast Power have sealed a quarry and supply deal in Malaysia. The deal gives Blast Power the exclusive rights to sell and remove products manufactured from the rock materials extracted from a quarry owned by Bumi Suria Ventures. Bumi Suria Ventures operates a stone quarry in Sarawak state and has a licence dating back to 22 November 2010 to process, remove, sell and extract rock materials from the quarry for five years. TH Plantations is the parent firm of Bumi Suria Ventures.

Cemex has supplied approximately 140,000m³ of a variety of specialty concretes for a modern new tram line in Zaragoza, Spain. Line 1 of the tram is 12.8km long and crosses the city from its southernmost end to the north, passing through the city centre. It was opened to the public recently, and in June, 2013 plans were announced to open a second line in 2015.

The hike in Estonia’s environmental taxes, such as the tax on the extraction of mineral resources, should be in compliance with the inflation hike, says Meelis Einstein, chairman of the board of the Association of Construction Material Producers of Estonia.

Irish firm Cement Roadstone Holding (CRH), owner of the Spanish cement company Cementos Lemona, is making 35 staff redundant at Prefabricados Lemona's plants in the towns of Lemona (Bizkaia) and Castropepe (Zamora).
Trade union ELA has criticised this move, highlighting the €600 million annual profits posted by CRH in the last two years.

Italian construction equipment and machinery company CIFA, which focuses on offering a complete range of products in the concrete business, has celebrated its 85th birthday at its headquarters at Senago. The ceremony was held in the presence of all the company’s senior management including the CEO of CIFA Davide Cipolla and the president of Zoomlion Zhan Chunxin. It included the presentation of a historical museum and

Masonry products manufacturer, Lignacite, has announced a 40% increase in sales of its masonry block products since the start of 2013, and in July alone the company sold a record 180,000m² of blocks, enough to build more than 1,800 houses. Lignacite manufacturers masonry products which incorporate a range of recycled and waste materials, including glass, wood particles, furnace ash, recycled concrete, china clay and shells. According to Lignacite’s chairman, Giles de Lotbiniere, there are a number of reason

A global meeting on responsible mine closure is to be held within the world heritage mining landscape of County Cornwall, south-west England at the Eden Project, itself a former quarry, from 18-20 September, 2013.
The International Mine Closure Conference 2013 will focus on how to improve the environmental and social outcomes when mining operations cease. The conference series, which is in its eighth year, has attracted a wealth of industry experts from around the world presenting research findings and sh

McCloskey International’s TF80 tracked feeder has new features to enhance and streamline the process of stockpiling of materials. Full remote control on all functions is now available, and this allows operators to track and run the machine without getting out of the loader, facilitating the handling and stockpiling of a variety of materials, such wood waste, bark, compost and top soil, all of which are directly fed into the hopper with large loaders and excavators.

The Technical University of Denmark (DTU) has invented a new method to separate ashes from burnt wastewater sludge and use it for concrete production. DTU has patented a method for electrodialytic separation of secondary raw materials. It is now hoping to enter into cooperation with the construction sector to use the wastewater sludge ashes, that have been purified from phosphorus and heavy metals, as a replacement for cement in concrete production. This could make it possible to market such concrete as a g

Eriez has acquired UK-based Centriforce, a recognised leading provider of advanced coolant filtration systems to the European metalworking industry. The Centriforce product portfolio will be integrated into the Eriez HydroFlow line of fluid recycling and filtration equipment. “The acquisition of Centriforce supports Eriez’s goal of designing, developing and marketing the most technologically advanced fluid filtration and fluid management systems to the worldwide market,” says Charlie Ingram, Eriez vice pres