Quarry Products

New infrastructure projects are maintaining reasonably healthy aggregates demand across the Nordic region. But reduced residential construction and the fallout from a global economic slowdown are big concerns for the region’s major building material suppliers and quarrying and construction equipment manufacturers.

A new £3.8million dry discharge system at CEMEX’s Northfleet Wharf in Kent, south-east England, has been officially opened.

UK building materials supplier Aggregate Industries has launched its 2020 Apprenticeship Programme, which has been specifically designed to offer people the chance to earn while they learn.

The Mineral Products Association (MPA) says that recycled and secondary aggregates accounted for 29% of total UK aggregates supply in 2018/19, well above the European average.

The Mineral Products Association (MPA) has strengthened its team with six new appointments.

Mineral Products Association chief executive Nigel Jackson has urged the UK government to press ahead with the massive HS2 rail project.

The scheme will connect London, the Midlands and northern England and cut travel times using trains that can travel at up to 250mph. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has asked for more data before making a final decision. Some estimates now put the total cost of HS2 at £112bn, compared to the figure of £56bn given in 2015.