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Sennebogen’s UK sales and service partner, AGD Equipment, has delivered a Sennebogen 655 HD dragline duty cycle crane to Thomas Armstrong Aggregates based in Cumbria, North West England. Fitted with a 27m boom and two powerful 160kN freefall winches, the dragline duty cycle crane is digging tonnes of gravel every day for the construction materials manufacturer.

A family business established in 1830, the Thomas Armstrong Group continues to progress as a major player in numerous sectors, ranging from extr

Hanson has re-opened its ground granulated blast furnace slag grinding plant at Teesport Docks in Middlesbrough, North East England, creating 20 new jobs.

The plant was mothballed in 2009 during the recession, but a continuing upturn in construction activity prompted Hanson to return to the site last year and prepare it for re-opening. It takes blast furnace slag, a by-product of the steel industry, and grinds it into a fine powder for use as a cement substitute in ready-mixed concrete. The raw material

The Swedish Thomas Concrete Group says it continues to grow in the United States, with the acquisition of three concrete plants in North and South Carolina, complementing the group’s network along the Atlantic coast.

At the end of 2016, the Group also acquired three concrete plants in northern Poland.

“Through strategic acquisitions in the US states of North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, Thomas Concrete Group has over the years achieved a strong position as a key supplier of ready-mixed concre

construction materials supplier, Aggregate Industries, part of the LafargeHolcim Group, has appointed Duncan Reaney as its new general manager and Lucy Collins as commercial manager for the Express Asphalt arm of the organisation.

Reaney joins from his previous role as head of strategy and pricing at Aggregate Industries. Prior to that, he held a role within the HR team at LafargeHolcim.

Foreign investors are keen to increase their involvement in the Russian aggregates’ industry. Eugene Gerden reports.

China National Building Materials Group (CNBM) is one of China’s largest producers of building materials. The corporate giant is expanding in the Russian aggregates industry through the signing of an agreement with the Eurocement Group, one of Russia’s largest producers of aggregates and the country’s leading cement producer. This will see the joint establishment of facilities in Russia f

Foreign investors are keen to increase their involvement in the Russian aggregates’ industry. Eugene Gerden reports.

China National Building Materials Group (CNBM) is one of China’s largest producers of building materials. The corporate giant is expanding in the Russian aggregates industry through the signing of an agreement with the Eurocement Group, one of Russia’s largest producers of aggregates and the country’s leading cement producer. This will see the joint establishment of facilities in Russia f

Foreign investors are keen to increase their involvement in the Russian aggregates’ industry. Eugene Gerden reports.

China National Building Materials Group (CNBM) is one of China’s largest producers of building materials. The corporate giant is expanding in the Russian aggregates industry through the signing of an agreement with the Eurocement Group, one of Russia’s largest producers of aggregates and the country’s leading cement producer. This will see the joint establishment of facilities in Russia f