Quarry Products

LafargeHolcim Russia has released Master cement in bags with a new design, developed with regard to buyer preferences.

The package mostly retained its previous style, but features a number of new details making the information on the product and its use easier to perceive visually.

China-based cement supplier Tangshan Jidong Cement (Jidong Cement) posted an improvement from a net loss of CNY 175 million (€23.56 million/US$27.32 million) in the first six months of 2014 to a net profit of CNY 198 million in the same period of 2015.

Operating revenue plunged 27.7% to CNY 5.112 billion.

Sales of clinker and cement suffered a decline of 22.22% and 18.49% to 4.9 million tonnes and 26.27 million tonnes respectively.

Production of clinker fell by 24.65% to 21.64 million tonnes, whi

China-based cement maker Gansu Shangfeng Cement reported that its profit attributable to shareholders declined by 73.7% year-on-year to CNY 53.98 million (€7.30 million/US$8.43 million) between January 2015 and June 2015.

Operating revenue was down by 28.25% to CNY 982 million.

A new US$800 million (€702.42 million) cement plant in Indonesia's Tuban of East Java has been inaugurated by Holcim Indonesia.

The plant was launched to bolster the company's market grip in certain regions of the nation and areas targeted for distribution of products from the plant include Sumatra, East Java and Kalimantan.

The cement maker's existing capacity will be boosted to 12.5 million tonnes/year with the Tuban plant, which was designed to have a cement production capacity of 3.4 million tonne

Researchers at the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI) say they have shown that using cold mix asphalt concrete instead of traditional warm mix asphalt concrete is an effective way of reducing environmental impact.

The cold mix asphalt technique requires less energy and reduces emissions of greenhouse gases.

Safwat Said, research leader at VTI, says that interest in cold mix asphalt has grown in recent years due to an increased interest in reducing greenhouse gases and optimis

The Moroccan Ministry of Equipment is presenting the first version of a decree regarding quarries, and has met with professional organisations to discuss it.

This is the first of some 20 decrees to come on the matter.

This version outlines that the Ministry of Equipment is the central authority regarding quarry operating declarations.

Matters such as the final configuration of the requirements specification as well as what will come of cooperatives and associations exploiting quarries without a tax

According to a new report by Timetric’s Construction Intelligence Center (CIC), the US construction industry is set to pick up over the next five years.

Timetric forecasts that the construction sector’s average annual growth is set to accelerate in real terms from 1.7% during the review period to 3.1% over the forecast period, increasing from US$1 trillion in 2014 to US$1.1 trillion in 2019 in real terms.

Investments to modernise the country’s aging infrastructure and renewable energy sector alongsid

As the world’s ready supplies of natural materials diminish, the reuse or recycling of existing materials has taken on a new urgency.

No matter what the product, many countries have in place targets that they would like to achieve for the recycling of waste, with quarry products high on the list.