Quarry Products

As part of its strategy to sell non-strategic assets worth € 500 million in 2010, Lafarge has sold assets worth €120 million in France, Switzerland and Portugal, the French building materials group announced.

Economics and politics seem to be the main influencers of the UK aggregates industry at present. Adrian Greeman reports

The dominant issue affecting the UK aggregate industry is, unsurprisingly, the economy and the impact of the credit-crunch. That for the moment has pushed into the background various other issues including new environmental controls, the possibility of devolved planning bound up in the general election and the development of transport.

Biodiversity is firmly on the agenda for 2010 with it being the International Year of Biodiversity. Claire Symes spoke to IUCN's Hans Friederich to find out what this means for the organisation and how it is working with the aggregates market

Biodiversity has become a commonly used term within the European quarrying industry over the last decade or so, but for one organisation the history stretches back much further. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has been working to conserve t

Tarmac is trialling a new software package that aims to improve ready mixed concrete quality. ABE reports on the technology behind the new solution

Delivering ready mixed concrete to specification and managing slump are challenges that have been a continual problem for the construction industry. Now new software being trialled by Tarmac is making a real difference - saving clients' time and money and improving the accuracy and efficiency of concrete production.

Demand for Russian ceramic bricks is expected to grow by more than a fifth in the year to March 31 2012, according to national experts.

The global market for construction aggregates is expected to increase 5.2% per year through to 2015 to 48.3 billion tonnes.