Quarry Products

What is best practice when it comes to estimating and reporting your aggregate reserves? How can your business make sure it has done all it can to get the right assets on the books? Poor estimation or reporting and a good business suddenly looks like a bad bet. Embed best practice in strategic business planning and achieve a managed mineral asset portfolio with no surprises, argues Neil Wells.
International reporting standards provide a common basis for understanding resources and reserves information worl

A new 50,000tonnes/year road sweepings recycling system from CDEnviro is operating at Biffa Waste Services’ treatment facility in Horsham, county West Sussex, southern England.

Biffa, one of the UK’s leading integrated waste management companies, provides collection, recycling, treatment, disposal and technologically driven energy generation services, controls the largest volume of waste in the UK.

It has invested in a CDEnviro road sweepings recycling system, and the solution at Horsham, one of the c

FLSmidth has signed an EP (Engineering and Procurement) contract at a value of approximately DKK 255 million (€34.24 million) with the Vietnamese cement producer Tan Thang Cement Joint Stock Company for the supply of main equipment to a greenfield cement plant in Vietnam. The plant will be located in the Nghe An province, approximately 300km south of the capital Hanoi.

The order includes all the main equipment from raw mill grinding to clinker silo, as well as a coal mill installation, civil design,

FLSmidth has signed a contract with Larsen & Toubro for engineering, procurement and supply of equipment for a complete cement production line with a capacity of 3,000 tonnes/day. The plant will be located in Ariyalur, approximately 300km south of Chennai in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. The end client of the project is Tamil Nadu Cement Corporation Limited (TANCEM), a wholly owned undertaking of the Government of Tamil Nadu, with whom Larsen & Toubro Limited has an EPC contract.

The order includes a c

Cemex Holdings Philippines (CHP), an indirectly wholly-owned subsidiary of Cemex España, has received pre-effective approval of the registration statement it filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission of the Philippines (the Philippine SEC) relating to a proposed initial public offering of CHP’s common shares (the Offering).

Meanwhile, CHP has also received notice of approval from the Philippine Stock Exchange (the PSE) for the listing of CHP’s shares on the PSE. Subject to obtaining the correspo

Great Britain produces 360million tonnes/year of aggregates and manufactured mineral products, with the mineral products industry recording a £20 billion annual turnover, according to a new MPA (Mineral Products Association) report.

Presenting detailed analysis of the latest data for each product, the MPA report, titled ‘The Mineral Products Industry at a Glance’, highlights the significant contribution the industry makes to the UK economy from over 2,000 active sites and plants.

Released at the recen

Breedon has finalised the senior team who will lead the group following its planned acquisition of Hope Construction Materials.

The Breedon group's expanded executive committee will comprise senior executives from both Breedon and Hope and from outside.

Pat Ward, Breedon group chief executive, said: "We're fortunate to have been able to draw on considerable experience and deep industry knowledge from both companies, and externally, in assembling our executive committee. I believe we have selected a s

Aggregate Industries, a leading building materials supplier to the UK construction and infrastructure industry, has named Eddie Stobart as its Concrete Products division’s new logistics supply partner.

From October 2016, logistics for Aggregate Industries’ Concrete Products division will transfer to Eddie Stobart’s manufacturing and industrial business unit. The new five-year contract, awarded following an extensive tender, will see the haulier carrying Bradstone, Charcon and Masterblock products from 1