Screening Static & Mobile

Screening, crushing, recycling and materials handling equipment distributor Blue Group has been appointed UK distributors for the range of specialist screening and crushing excavator buckets manufactured by Hartl of Austria.
“To us, Hartl specialist buckets seem an obvious extra string to our bow. The clever design, build quality and performance of their buckets can only enhance our reputation for providing the best possible equipment available,” says Pat McGeary, Blue Group managing director.
“We already

Montreal, Canada-based Major Wire Industries has appointed Alain Durand as vice president of international sales.

He has worked with Major Wire as a global market development consultant since May 2013, and in his new role he will continue to develop and manage international markets for the company, in conjunction with Germany-based Haver & Boecker, to further promote Major Wire’s industry-leading reputation and to increase sales for its Flex-Mat 3 and OptimumWire screen media product lines. Haver & Boeck

Weir Minerals has launched two new configurations for its Gemex belt-tensioning system, integrating the system with two more of its most popular pump ranges.

The Gemex tensioner has been incorporated into updated versions of the company’s latest and most advanced heavy-duty slurry pump, the Warman WBH centrifugal slurry pump and the medium-duty Warman MU pump.

These are the first combined pump-and-tensioner packages to be added by Weir Minerals since the integrated package was designed for the company

Over the first six months of 2014, sales of construction equipment in the Italian market have been 3,134, an increase of 16% compared to the previous year.
By analysing sales results, the figure consists of 3,095 earthmoving machines (+16%) and 39 road machines (-7%).
Paolo Venturi, president of Unacea (the Italian Construction Equipment Association), said: “After six years of crisis, which have progressively reduced the Italian market of construction equipment up to 80% less, this increase is not surpri

France's national union of quarry industries and construction materials (Unicem) reports an activity decline of 3.4% in May 2014, confirming the downward trend witnessed in April.

Ready-mix concrete production was stable at 0.2% in May but down 2.3% compared with May 2013.

The aggregates sector was down 5.6% in May 2014 compared to May 2013. There was a 3.4% increase in public works contracts carried out between April 2013 and April 2014. Housing starts have declined since the beginning of 2014, with