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Albert Manifold will assume the role of group chief executive on 1 January 2014, following the retirement of the current chief executive, Myles Lee, after 32 years with the group. Manifold, an accountant and MBA, is aged 50. He has been a board member and CRH chief operating officer since January 2009. Prior to joining CRH in 1998, he held the position of chief operating officer with a private equity group. He has held a variety of senior positions within CRH, including managing director of the Europe Mater

Powerscreen has delivered its 100th Warrior 2400 mobile screen to distributor General Engineering Services (Genserv) in Oman. One of Oman’s leading infrastructure companies, Galfar Engineering SAOG, originally requested a scalping plant from Genserv, and required machines capable of providing output capacities ranging from 700-900tonnes/hour and, more importantly, that were mobile, as they planned to use them for roads and building projects all over Oman. The team at Genserv recommended the Warrior 2400 sca

Final approval has been granted by Eric Pickles, Secretary of State at the Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG) for a stone quarry in 80 acres of ancient woodland in County Kent, southern England. The quarry is run by the Gallagher Group. The development of Oaken Wood will be an extension of the existing Hermitage quarry site, which produces Kentish ragstone for building stone and aggregate.

Demolition Services (DSI) and Powerscreen crushing plants are key players in the demolition and recycling of the historic 1 million ft² (93,000m²) Navy Annex seven-building complex to provide for expansion of the Arlington National Cemetery. The 42 acre (17 hectare) site was built in 1941 as a temporary warehouse but was converted to federal office use after Pearl Harbor, and served as Marine Corps headquarters for more than five decades, as well as providing office space for numerous Navy personnel. It al

Romanian construction materials producer AdePlast recorded a turnover of RON 100 million (€22.56 million) in the first half of 2013, up 31% from the same period of 2012. The company's EBITDA also rose by 31% in the first six months of 2013.

The Austrian construction materials company Wienerberger announced that the EBITDA for its brick segment in Europe was €20 million lower than the company's target in the first half of 2013. This was due to the difficult economic conditions and the postponement of construction projects in Europe due to the long winter and heavy rain in May and June 2013. Despite this, Wienerberger remains optimistic for its other segments in 2013. The restructuring measures announced by the company in 2012 were put into effe

Prefabricated concrete solutions specialist Bonna Sabla is adapting its hydraulic engineering division's offering to the requirements of the Grenelle Environment Law. The company is now using resources of mineral origin to produce its prefabricated concrete, and proposing environmentally-friendly solutions to protect biodiversity. It is committed to creating sustainable sanitation networks, storing river water and treating domestic waste water. Bonna Sabla's Cofiroute subsidiary has invested in confinement

Cemex in Latvia is supplying building solutions, including over 80,000 m³ of specialty ready-mix concrete, for major improvements to Riga International Airport, which are expected to be completed in August 2014. Originally built in 1973, the airport is the largest in the Baltic States and serves nearly 5 million people annually. “We are proud to be the partner of choice for this important project which will benefit millions of residents and visitors for many years to come,” says Cemex Latvia Country Directo

McCloskey International is delivering enhanced screening to customers around the world with its latest design, new spiral drum options for the trommel screen line-up. The new option, available on all models, combines the drum incline found in all McCloskey trommels with the enhanced product quality control of a spiral drum. A spiral drum screens in a different way to the standard lift and drop system usually used in a trommel. It is able to prevent ‘“spearing’ where elongated material is lifted and thrown t

Metso will deliver an order consisting of 38 feeders for the major Mexican copper mine Buenavista del Cobre, which is owned by Grupo Mexico. The order will help to double the mine's capacity of copper concentrate by securing prompt copper ore feed flow in the mine extension project. The order value is over €7 million. The belt feeders will be installed at Buenavista del Cobre's Cananea copper mine, located in Sonora, in Mexico. To assist with the installation and future servicing, Metso will open a new, ful

A facility mining and processing non-metallic minerals is opened in the Ingush Republic, Russia. It has 20m³/hour automated concrete mixer and 90m³/hour screening and crushing machine. The investments totalled RUB 149 million (€3.45 million), and the new facility is to provide road metal, sand and concrete to all construction sites in the republic.

Basf Construction Chemicals Espana and its tunnels division Meyco Global Underground will supply setting accelerators for the construction of the tunnels on the Zamora-Orense stretch of the Madrid-Galicia high-speed railway line in Spain. Basf is supplying additives for the production of concrete to be used in the tunnels. Since October 2012, all construction companies involved in the project including Geotunel, Nortunel, Vias y Construcciones, Obras Subterraneas and Isolux-Corsan Corvian are using Basf's s

Austrian construction materials maker Asamer, whose main products are gravel and concrete, is said to have confirmed media reports suggesting that it will restructure. Talks to this effect are expected to be completed by the end of 2013. One of the options considered is splitting off the south-eastern European business, especially that of Croatia, in a separate company.