Quarry Products

Mordovcement hopes to produce 5.64 million tonnes of cement (including 1.16 million tonnes of packaged cement); 5.18 million tonnes of clinker and 7.99 million tonnes of nepheline slime and raw mix.

To boost the company's production, the efficiency of the clinker production line of the dry process cement production plant is to be increased to 80%, a new grinding mill is to be introduced at Staro-Alexeevsky Cement Plant, and the storage and dosing system of the semi-dry process clinker production line is

Organisers of StonExpo/Marmomacc Americas, the most important exhibition in North America dedicated to the natural stone sector, says there are encouraging signals from the US market after the recent ninth edition of the event.

The US residential market is expanding (+25% in new projects for 2014 according to National Association of House Builders/NAHB estimates) and is keen to purchase natural stone made in Italy. In the first ten months of 2013, processed and finished marble and natural stone goods wer

German construction industry supplier Sto cooperated with Swiss research institute Eidgenössische Materialprüfungs- und Forschungsanstalt (Empa) and has developed a new interior plaster that is said to absorb more moisture than conventional lime and clay plasters. The new interior plaster range called StoCalce Functio absorbs 90grammes of water vapour per m² and this is said to be twice as much as conventional lime products.

German natural stone specialist Dinger Stone will relocate from Bahlingen to Endingen. The company will set up a large production building as well as a large office and exhibition area for €3.4 million. Dinger Stone employs 40 people.

Cemex’s consolidated net sales increased by 4% during the fourth quarter of 2013 to approximately US$3.9 billion and increased by 2% for the full year to $15.2 billion versus the comparable periods in 2012.

Operating EBITDA increased by 4% during the fourth quarter of 2013 to $642 million and increased 1% for the full-year to $2.6 billion versus 2012. On a like-to-like basis for the ongoing operations, adjusting for currency fluctuations and also for the extraordinary favourable effect in 2012 resulting

In France, the company Doublet and Suez Environnement subsidiary Sita have signed a partnership agreement to develop products using C'Urban eco-friendly concrete.

Developed as part of a research programme led by Sita, Neo-Eco Recycling and the Ecole des Mines in Douai, C'Urban is 100% made from recycled materials, including construction waste materials and river sediments. C'Urban is currently undergoing tests and is being used by Doublet to create bicycle parking.

UK Housing Minister Kris Hopkins visited Hanson’s re-opened Claughton Manor brickworks near Lancaster, County Lancashire, north-east England, to see bricks being produced for the first time in four years.

The works was closed in December 2009 as house building reached an all-time low but a dramatic upturn in new housing construction, fuelled by the Government’s Help to Buy scheme, has created a renewed and sustained demand for bricks, leading to the Claughton plant being re-opened. It is the first time a

Astec, an Astec Industries company, reports that it has sold the 600th warm mix system since it began producing it in 2007. The 600th system will be installed at Delta Contracting in Humboldt, Tennessee, USA.

The Astec warm mix system enables Astec’s worldwide network of existing and new plant owners, who are all experiencing rising fuel and liquid asphalt prices, to lower their overall operating costs without sacrificing quality.

The system is said to allow producers to reduce fuel consumption, inc