Quarry Products

Nuryol Çimento in Turkey has decided to use Loesche as the supplier of all mills for its new 4,000tonnes/day cement plant project in Karasu, around 150km east of Istanbul. Loesche will supply mills for coal grinding, cement raw material grinding and clinker grinding. The complete project execution and coordination will be done by Sintek Mining Machinery Industry Construction, which is based in Ankara.
Loesche will supply one Loesche mill type LM 46.4 to grind cement raw material at a rate of 330tonnes/hour

Recycled asphalt is not only environmentally friendly, it is also financially friendly as one UK council demonstrated on a recent road reconstruction project. Road reconstruction techniques that reduce the cost by a quarter, cut the length of works by over a half and save 9tonnes of CO2 emissions sounds too good to be true, doesn't it? But a recent resurfacing project carried out by the London Borough of Newham in the UK managed to achieve just that through use of in situ recycling.

The UEPG wants to become a social partner of the Sectoral Social Dialogue Committee of the Extractive Industries in a bid to promote the industry In early March the European Aggregates Association (UEPG) took the first formal step to further improve its representation of its members and communication with other professional bodies in allied industries. On 2 March in Brussels the UEPG presented its case at European Commission DG Employment to become a Social Partner in the Sectoral Social Dialogue Committee

Block paving has become a popular alternative to concrete or asphalt surfacing and innovative new designs can also help reduce flooding Whether it is attributable to global warming and changing weather patterns or more surface run-off, flooding seems to be a growing problem in Europe. It is estimated that around two thirds of home insurance claims for flood damage are now caused by surface water, rather than from rivers bursting their banks. The rate of development in some areas means that further surfacing

Slovakia-based Calmit has gained consent to continue limestone quarrying at Tisovec for another five years. The company has said that it does not plan to increase production but does intend to invest €2.3million in a new aggregate crushing and screening plant in 2012.