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July 20, 2021

New entrant in southern Africa’s crushing & screening market

There is a new player in the southern African mobile crushing and screening market. Vermeer Equipment Suppliers, for the first time, now offers mobile crushing and screening equipment. This follows its appointment – effective January 2021 – as the exclusive distributor for Anaconda Equipment, a Northern Ireland-based manufacturer of a full line of mobile crushing and screening equipment.

Vermeer Equipment Suppliers
July 20, 2021

MENA region’s construction markets ‘limping back to normalcy’

The second wave of COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc in many countries including some in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. However, new projects awarded by the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries indicate that things are moving in the right direction

The port in the city of Oran, west Algeria has undergone a major upgrade in recent years © Samir Moueden |  Dreamstime.com
July 20, 2021

Haver to exhibit software at MINExpo 2021

Haver & Boecker Niagara is to showcase software that gives mining and aggregate operations insight to their equipment's performance at MINExpo 2021 in Las Vegas.

Haver & Boecker Niagara Pulse VA screening MINExpo 2021 Las Vegas Convention Center
July 20, 2021

New CEO for Doosan Infracore Europe

Chris (Kwanhee) Jeong has become the new CEO of off-highway machine maker Doosan Infracore Europe (DIEU), effective from 1st July 2021.

 New CEO Chris Jeong was previously head of EMEA product management for Doosan Infracore's excavator business unit
July 20, 2021

Korean aggregates producer boosts productivity with Volvo machines

South Korean aggregates producer Daeil Development is using a fleet of Volvo CE articulated haulers, wheeled loaders and excavators – including a new EC550E – to help cut fuel consumption and meet ever-growing aggregates demand in Iksan, North Jeolla Province.

 Pyeong-sik Kim, CEO of Daeil Development, with the company’s new Volvo EC550E crawler excavator
July 19, 2021

CDE plant boosts SRC sustainability

Over the past decade, independent, family-owned business SRC Group (SRC) has grown to become one of the UK’s leading aggregates suppliers. With demand for its quality aggregate products increasing rapidly and underscoring its commitment to strengthening the circular economy, the company has invested in a new CDE construction and demolition (C&D) waste recycling plant.

SRC’s latest CDE C&D waste recycling plant at Martell’s Quarry, just outside Colchester, Essex
July 19, 2021

MSHA: Miners killed in locomotive collision 

The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) has announced two miners were fatally injured when a locomotive collided with the personnel carrier in which they were riding. 

Mine Safety and Health Administration fatality alert locomotive personnel carrier powered haulage
July 19, 2021

SigmaRoc acquires Nordkalk

SigmaRoc, the London-listed quarried materials group, has acquired Nordkalk, Northern Europe's leading limestone producer, for €500 million.

July 19, 2021

Decline in GB asphalt plant market in 2020, says BDS report

According to a new report by BDS Marketing Research (BDS), the asphalt plant market in Great Britain experienced a decline in 2020. Last year's dip in plant sales comes after the market grew by almost 25% during the middle part of the last decade, BDS notes.

July 16, 2021

Large loading gains

A large crawler excavator from a major global manufacturer is making a big impact in one southern European nation’s quarrying sector, while new zero-emission excavators and wheeled loaders are also making headlines

The September 2020-launched ZX490LCH-7 crawler excavator
July 16, 2021

Cummins & Chevron announce hydrogen strategic collaboration

Global on- and off-highway machine engine giant Cummins and Chevron U.S.A., through its Chevron Products Company division (Chevron), have agreed on a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to explore a strategic alliance to develop commercially viable business opportunities in hydrogen and other alternative energy sources.

July 16, 2021

TACA meeting welcomes 450 attendees 

The Texas Aggregates & Concrete Association (TACA) welcomed more than 450 attendees to its annual meeting at the JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country Resort & Spa. 

Texas Aggregates & Concrete Association TXP National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association
July 16, 2021

MPA Scotland appoints new director

MPA Scotland, the trade association for the country's aggregates, asphalt, cement and concrete industries, has appointed Alan Doak as director.

MPA Scotland represents thirteen independent SME quarrying firms and five major global companies