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For the first project, the Mexican-headquartered global building materials market giant supplied ready-mixed concrete for new foundations of an infrastructure project along the railway line in Berlin’s Alt-Hohenschoenhausen district. For the final kilometres to the construction site, CEMEX concrete trucks travelled piggyback on a low-floor wagon.

For Deutsche Bahn AG, construction company Heicon Service GmbH & Co. KG built new foundations for overhead line masts in Alt-Hohenschoenhausen. For 12 of these

The Mineral Products Association (MPA) together with the Planning Officers’ Society (POS) has launched a new UK Minerals Safeguarding Practice Guidance which explains how local and mineral planning authorities should protect mineral resources and infrastructure from development through the planning system.

A sufficient supply of minerals and mineral products is essential to the economy and our quality of life.

Mineral resources are not evenly distributed and can only be worked where they occur natur

Over 150 attendees from over 70 different organisations including the minerals industry, national agencies, local government, NGOs and specialist consultancies attended the annual joint Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) / Mineral Products Association (MPA) mineral planning conference in Manchester, north-west England.

As city-regions across the country develop ambitious growth strategies, a reliable and secure supply of minerals is more important than ever. The annual conference brought together all

Tarmac says it has revolutionised the production and delivery of its ready-mixed concrete with innovative software that improves product quality and data accuracy to boost site productivity and resource efficiency.

The Tarmac Assure system, which the company has installed across its entire UK ready-mixed fleet, collects data to measure, manage and record concrete quality at the plant, in transit and on site. Water is automatically added to ensure the material reaches its target consistency or ‘slump’.

The Mineral Products Association (MPA) has launched a new briefing ‘The Contribution of Recycled and Secondary Materials to Total Aggregates Supply in Great Britain’ highlighting that the aggregates industry is one of the UK’s recycling and circular economy success stories.

Over 70 million tonnes of materials from a range of sources are re-used in GB aggregates markets and 90% of these recycled materials are sourced from construction activity, following demolition work and road repairs.

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Dr Andrew Minson, concrete and sustainable construction director at the Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA) joined leaders in the built environment at a key global summit in New York to give a rallying call on the importance of concrete and modernising the construction sector for the future needs of the world.

Speaking at yesterday’s (Monday 13 May) annual ‘World Built Environment Forum Summit 2019’ alongside innovators and global influencers, Dr Minson set out the sector’s role in responding t