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Crushing and screening equipment manufacturer McCloskey International has appointed Michael Millies as group sales director.

Nine new company members joined the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) in July 2022.

Bridgestone is now offering IntelliTire, its real-time tyre-monitoring solution, to construction and quarry customers for 49 inch or smaller applications. IntelliTire uses stem-mounted flow-through external sensors, in addition to internal sensors, to provide critical real-time data such as tyre inflation pressure and temperature to continually monitor the health of each tyre throughout its lifecycle. Transmitting sensor details through a cloud-based system, IntelliTire uses advanced and predictive algorithms to analyse data and issue alerts and customized reports to fleet operators.

BAU Süddeutsche Baumaschinen Handels, the Doosan quarrying and construction equipment dealer for Southern Germany, has opened a new facility at the company‘s branch in Kempten. 

Holcim US has acquired the sand and gravel operation of New Kent County, Virginia-based Basic Construction Company.

American construction input prices decreased 1.8% in July compared to the previous month, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) analysis of new U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Producer Price Index data. Nonresidential construction input prices decreased 1.8% for the month as well.

Have you heard about sustainable finance? One year ago, only insiders and experts would have answered ‘yes’. Since France has pushed Brussels to consider nuclear energy as sustainable (with German reluctance as Berlin is phasing out nuclear power), almost everyone talks about it. Few, however, know about the work of the EU Platform on Sustainable Finance (PSF) and the taxonomy regulation and even fewer have detailed knowledge of the reports which frequently start with a scary statement: “This is a long report. Please think before printing.”

Record temperatures are underlining the reality of climate change, and construction equipment must act quickly by switching to electric power to play its part in stopping the planet overheating.

Rokbak has received a RoSPA Gold Health and Safety Award for the steps it has taken to protect its employees' wellbeing.

Hanson’s Padeswood cement works in Flintshire, north-east Wales, has been shortlisted for funding as part of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy’s (BEIS) Phase 2 Carbon Capture and Storage Cluster Sequencing process.

After a successful start to the year, DEUTZ – one of the world’s leading manufacturers of innovative drive systems for off-highway applications – continued to benefit from the sustained recovery in relevant downstream industries in the second quarter and improved its earnings in the first half of 2022.

Birla Corporation posted a 25.2% increase in revenue in the first quarter of the 2022-23 financial year, despite tepid cement demand, as the company managed to ramp up like-for-like capacity utilisation to 101%.

The National Stone Sand & Gravel Association (NSSGA) organised a day-long tour for the Mine Safety & Health Administration’s (MSHA) Assistant Secretary, Chris Williamson, along with seven other Department of Labor/MSHA staff at Luck Stone’s Bull Run facility in Virginia.

Private equity company IGI has taken majority ownership of Italian washing plant provider Matec Industries.

Terex Materials Processing (MP), a Terex Corporation business division and a major global player in aggregate, environmental, concrete, lifting, and handling machinery, has acquired the assets of ZenRobotics.

FLSmidth says it has completed all regulatory clearances and other conditions required for its acquisition of thyssenkrupp's Mining business (TK Mining), with the transaction due to close on 31 August 2022.

Demand for sand is growing in Uganda amid a building boom in the East African country, but extraction and regulation challenges abound

CEMEX has added nearly 200 lower-carbon natural gas-powered trucks to its fleets across the Americas as part of the strategy to decarbonise its global transportation operations. 

Cummins is to open a new high horsepower engine rebuild facility near Kraków in southern Poland.