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The UK Quality Ash Association (UKQAA) has appointed Tarmac’s Allan Everett as the association’s new chair, taking over from Power Minerals’ Ivan Skidmore after four years in the role.
The UKQAA is the country’s leading authority on the use of quality ash in construction and engineering applications and represents a range of members from across the construction supply chain.

In its interim report for interim report for Q1 2018, FLSmidth & says it has had its highest service order intake since Q4 2012 and its first large mining order in three years. The report covers the period from. 1 January-31 March 2018. “The mining industry is recovering, and winning our first large mining order since 2015 is one of several indicators that mining capex is trending positively," says Thomas Schulz, group CEO. The return on capital employed (ROCE) increased to 10.4% in Q1 2018 from 9.4% in Q1

Following some improvement in demand towards the end of 2017, UK mineral products markets started the year slowly, hit by weak construction activity and the impact of the particularly cold weather. Sales volumes for asphalt and aggregates fell by 4.8% and 4.9% respectively in Q1 2018 compared to the previous quarter, and ready-mixed concrete (RMC) by 7.7%. Mortar sales, which last year received a significant boost from new housebuilding, also contracted by 3.8% in Q1 2018, the biggest quarterly fall since e

Aggregate Industries’ revolutionary LytaScreed has been a key ingredient in the renovation of one of the UK’s most prestigious educational institutions, University College London. As part of UCL’s £1.2 billion refurbishment programme, main contractor Balfour Beatty was tasked with building a terrace next to the 19th Century Grade 1 listed Wilkins Building, providing a vital passage through the university’s Bloomsbury Campus while also serving as an outdoor events space. Located close to Regent Park in

Aggregate Industries’ concrete depot in Harlow, county Essex, south-east England, has been praised for the “highly-valuable contribution”’ it is making to the region’s construction industry.
The praise came during a visit to the site by Robert Halfon, who has been a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Harlow since 2010. He visited the depot near Harlow Mill Station to meet the concrete production team and see the site, which supplies up to 30,000m³ of concrete/year from its state-of-the-art double