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Cummins says it is working with telematics service provider Topcon/Tierra to support manufacturer LiuGong.

CEMEX is setting an ambitious goal for its Vertua low-carbon cement and concrete products to reach more than half of its cement and concrete sales by 2025.

Whitemountain Quarries Ltd, Lagan Asphalt Ltd, and Lagan Materials Ltd have rebranded as Breedon Ireland.

Hanson has set out how it plans to upgrade its existing Padeswood cement production facility in North Wales to become what it claims will be the UK’s first net zero cement works.

The Construction Products Association (CPA) has revised its prediction for construction output growth in the UK downwards.

The Mineral Products Association (MPA) says it is "disappointed" that UK cement and lime producers have been excluded from the UK Government’s compensation scheme for climate change costs.

Beumer Group, a major global manufacturer of premium tech-led quarrying, cement and mining conveying and loading solutions, has acquired FAM, a Magdeburg, Germany-based supplier of conveying and loading technology.

CEMEX announced today that CEMEX Ventures, its corporate venture capital and open innovation unit, is investing in ObraLink, a startup that has developed a forecasting technology that monitors concrete during its pouring and hardening to predict its strength in real-time during the construction process.

Metso Outotec has completed the acquisition of Tesab, an Omagh, Northern Ireland-based company specialising mostly in mobile crushing equipment for aggregates applications, including quarrying, recycling, asphalt and concrete.

HeidelbergCement's Czech Republic subsidiary, Českomoravský beton, has acquired six ready-mixed concrete plants and one sandpit from Kámen Zbraslav.

Vulcan Materials, America’s biggest construction aggregates producer, is poised to leverage “attractive growth in aggregates unit profitability” after seeing its first-quarter aggregates sales rise 25% year-on-year to US$1.121 billion ($894.9mn Q1 2021).

There has been significant focus on alternative power solutions for off-road vehicles and equipment such as hybrid, full electric and hydrogen. Whilst these solutions will be suitable in the long term, it will take time for these technologies to be competitive and enable wider adopted in the construction industry.

Healthy market demand and an ability to cope with supply chain challenges helped Cummins post a 5% year-on-year revenue rise to a new record of US$6.4 billion in the first quarter of 2022.

Holcim has acquired six quarries from the FAMY Group, a major independent player in the aggregates business in Eastern France.

SRM Concrete has announced the acquisition of Darby Ready Mix in Southeast Michigan, USA.

Vulcan Materials says it is close to reaching an agreement with the Mexican government over its aggregates operations in the country.

CRH has announced the completion of the sale of its Building Envelope business to KPS Capital Partners for US$3.8 billion.

National nonresidential construction spending was down 0.8% in March, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) analysis of data published by the U.S. Census Bureau. On a seasonally adjusted annualised basis, nonresidential spending totalled US$839.2 billion for the month.

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