Quarry Products

Supply of innovative materials by Cemex has helped innovative training for the sports stars of the future to get underway at a new sports centre being developed by French football star Zinedine Zidane in Marseille, France. The 18,000m2 facility, designed by architect Christophe Gulizzi, will include seven football fields, two swimming pools and several fitness rooms and gyms. To meet the demands of the project Cemex has supplied 400m3 of black Advanci Architectonique ready mixed concrete, 1,200m2 of grey re

Recycled glass is a good alternative to real sand and has been given the seal of approval by sand martin nesting at a quarry owned by Lafarge Aggregates & Concrete UK. The birds have created burrows in the pile of envirosand – made from recycled glass – at the company’s Willington site.

CRH has continued with its strategy of investing in key business areas with the company announcing investment of €200million in the first half of the year in acquisition of 21 companies. The company released the figures along with news of its latest acquisition which expands its materials business in Europe. CRH has bought out Belgium-based VVM Group, which operates two cement grinding mills with a total capacity of 1.5million tonnes and two ready mixed concrete plants – one in Belgium and the other in Fran

Failure to match aggregate production with consents for new reserves in the UK is now having a serious impact on the industry, according to a new report. BDS Marketing Research’s latest research estimates the volumes of reserves and reserves life at each operating and inactive pit and quarry in Great Britain. The findings show that of the largest regions, the south east and Yorkshire have the lowest sand and gravel reserves life. Areas such as London, West Sussex, Hampshire and South Yorkshire are particula

Supply of cement in the Moscow region of Russia has been boosted with the opening of two new major plants to the south of the city today. Holcim has inaugurated its new cement plant in Kolomna, 100 km south of Moscow, is one of the company’s biggest plants in Eastern Europe. At the same time, 150 km south of Moscow in the city of Novogurovsky, in the Tula region, Heidelberg Cement also officially opened its newest plant.

Plans announced by the provincial authorities for Novara in Italy to produce 18million cubic metres of aggregates between 2009 and 2018 have been criticised by environmentalists and legal commentators. The need for this volume of building materials to be produced by the region’s 41 quarries over this time period has been questioned and concerns over mafia control have also been alleged. Nonetheless, the region’s authorities has said that the network of quarries have produced an average of over 2million cubi

Vicat has announced that it has a three year research deal with the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, CEA. Under the agreement Vicat will work with the CEA to investigate thermal properties of cement and cement in building applications.