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Ambuja Cement has won the National Award for Energy Excellence in the Indian cement industry.

October’s bauma show saw a host of new crushing and screening plant launches from the major manufacturers. Liam McLoughlin looks at the latest offerings to hit the market

A next-generation Cat 980BH (Block Handler) is the new star of the show at one of António Galego & Filhos Mármores’s (AGF) two Portuguese Estremoz marble quarries just two kilometres from each other in Bencatel, around 14km south-west of Vila Viçosa in southern Portugal.

Metso Outotec is expanding its cloud-based Metrics monitoring-system portfolio to customers’ stationary screening equipment.

LSC Infratech’s May 2021-commissioned aggregates, silica and manufactured sand production facility at Manoharpura in the Karoli district of Rajasthan, North India, deploys a variety of advanced technologies, plant automation and new operating and maintenance practices, resulting in big economical, sustainability and health and safety gains for the company. Partha Pratim Basistha went to get a close-up look at the state-of-the-art site

The ancient Romans were masters of engineering, constructing vast networks of roads, aqueducts, ports, and massive buildings, whose remains have survived for two millennia. Many of these structures were built with concrete: Rome’s famed Pantheon, which has the world’s largest unreinforced concrete dome and was dedicated in A.D. 128, is still intact, and some ancient Roman aqueducts still deliver water to Rome today. Meanwhile, many modern concrete structures have crumbled after a few decades.

The US construction industry added 28,000 jobs on net in December, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) analysis of new data released by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. On a year-over-year basis, industry employment has risen by 231,000 jobs or 3.1%.

The sensitive repair of a historic and treasured local church in Cardiff has been made possible through the donation of specialist Blue Lias limestone by Tarmac, the UK’s leading sustainable building materials and construction solutions business.

AEM (Association of Equipment Manufacturers) president Megan Tanel has issued an off-highway equipment industry rallying call ahead of what will be a busy year for the key US-based trade association and its members.

The American construction industry registered 388,000 job openings in November, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) analysis of data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey.

Komatsu will be showcasing its latest electric equipment alongside brand-new and recently introduced machines at the Conexpo-Con/Agg 2023 show from 14-18 March 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

Dr Edelio Bermejo is Holcim’s global head of research and development (R&D) and intellectual property (IP). He oversees a large and highly gifted team based in different parts of the world which works daily on new, greener building materials that can drive down the global construction industry’s significant carbon footprint. Aggregates Business editor Guy Woodford spoke to him about his vital work

Holcim has completed the acquisition of Chrono Chape, one of France's leading independent providers of on-site self-levelling screeds. These fluid applications are used to create a smooth, even foundation upon which builders can lay the floor's finish, such as carpet or tile.

Caterpillar has announced that Dr. Lou Balmer-Millar will become its new chief sustainability officer.

Trimble has acquired Ryvit, an integration Platform-as-a-Service (iPaaS) provider for the construction industry.

Many of us have been tucking into our Christmas dinners, but we rarely take time to think about what happens to the leftovers from producing all the delicious food of the season. However, without wanting to spoil your appetite for the inevitable leftovers, there is an important policy issue for what we do with waste biomass, including meat and bone meal (MBM) and household food waste. Getting the most carbon emissions reduction at best value for money is currently a missed opportunity from this waste stream.

In 2023, the SIM exhibition is setting up in Bordeaux.

For the 72nd edition of its congress-exhibition, the mineral industry society has chosen a wine, a color but above all a city “Bordeaux”, which has become “Bordeaux-Métropole”, an agglomeration of nearly 850,000 inhabitants, capital of New Aquitaine, the largest administrative region in France.

Cummins has unveiled a new generation of clean off-road engines that meet China National Stage IV emissions (CS IV) which started on 1 December 2022. The upgraded engines, with displacements from 2.8 to 15-litres, range from 36-503kW. They achieve higher power output and torque than their predecessors and continue to bring proven, premium performance ideally suited for the toughest duty cycles. 

A rare Elizabethan-era shipwreck has been found at the CEMEX quarry near Dungeness in Kent, UK.

Heidelberg Materials' Swedish subsidiary Cementa is being allowed to continue quarrying material at its Slite limestone quarries on the island of Gotland, the country's Land and Environmental Court has announced.