Search

When building an 18-kilometre-long tunnel, you end up with several million tonnes of blasted stone that must be put somewhere. The explosives contain nitrogen, which contaminates the stone. This is exactly the situation in Sweden, where construction is underway on the Stockholm Bypass.

The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) has confirmed a miner was fatally injured when leaving the mine site in his personal pickup truck.

Ottenbüttler Sand Gesellschaft (Ottenbüttler Sand) of Dammfleth has taken delivery of the first two Doosan DL420-7 wheeled loaders in Germany.

FLSmidth, a global technology leader in the mining and cement industries, has received validation from the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) for its carbon emission reduction targets.

A new brick producing a tenth of the carbon emissions of a traditional one is going into commercial production.

The use of a pre-screen grid can increase crusher output by preventing unnecessary fine material from passing through the crushing process, it is being claimed

Titan Group, the Greece-headquartered building materials heavyweight, saw its Q1 2021 profit after taxes and minority interests grow to €15.3 million.

New Enterprise Stone & Lime has acquired three aggregate plants and four hot mix asphalt plants from Hempt Bros in the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania area. 

Volvo Construction Equipment is providing a live augmented reality (AR) video feed that enables dealer field technicians to connect directly via a mobile phone to their back office product specialists, as well as Volvo product experts and engineers.

Indian off-road tyre manufacturer BKT says its production has continued smoothly despite the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the country.

Caterpillar says that three billion tonnes of material have now been hauled by autonomous trucks using its Cat MineStar Command system for hauling.

UK construction’s demand for big-volume mineral products like aggregates and concrete showed resilience in the first quarter of 2021, despite renewed lockdown restrictions, Brexit and particularly wet winter weather hampering activity

CDE has announced the return of its global virtual symposium for the wet processing industry. Registration is free and open to all.

The American Concrete Institute (ACI) is to host a virtual conference in June, consisting of six hours of technical presentations on fibre-reinforced polymers (FRP).

DEUTZ, a major manufacturer of diesel engines for construction and quarrying machines, has officially opened its business school (DBS) in Zafra, southern Spain.

South Korea has emerged relatively unscathed from the economic effects of COVID-19 with the government initiating a number of major infrastructure projects (The Great Train Express, repairing the road network and a third satellite city near Seoul) that are likely to generate healthy future aggregates demand

Extractives and mineral processing training provider MP Skills has launched the new ‘Blasting for Non-Blasting Managers’ course.

Ascendum Máquinas has become the new distributor for Metso Outotec’s aggregate crushing and screening solutions in Portugal and Angola.

A new iconic landmark is taking shape on the skyline of Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, and a Eurotec concrete batching plant plus flake ice plant are working in tandem to ensure the project remains on course to meet its revised completion date.

EvoQuip distributor Powerscreen Crushing and Screening has chosen Connor Cobane to lead a new facility that encompasses a five-acre site with office in Indianapolis, Indiana.