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The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) has announced the availability of $10,537,000 in grant funding to provide training and retraining of miners and mine operators. 

Volvo Group and SSAB have signed a collaboration agreement to develop what they claim will be the world’s first vehicles to be made of fossil-free steel.

Metso Outotec has made new appointments to its executive team following the departure Minerals business area president Stephan Kirsch, who is leaving the company for personal reasons.

China's 26 leading excavator makers sold a total of 126,941 excavators in the first quarter of 2021, surging 85% year on year, data from the China Construction Machinery Association (CCMA) has revealed. 

Terex Finlay’s new LJ-130 hybrid jaw crusher is the largest mobile jaw crusher in its range. Developed for large-scale quarry and mining operations, the powerful machine can operate as a standalone primary crusher or integrated into a mobile or static crushing and screening plant.

Shareholders in French-Swiss building materials giant LafargeHolcim will be asked at the Group company’s upcoming annual general meeting (AGM) to vote on changing the Group company name to Holcim.

Cemex USA is participating in the latest phase of construction of the Grand Parkway, the planned 180-mile circumferential highway in Houston, Texas.

Building materials demand in a trio of Southeast Asian countries, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Thailand, has proved mainly robust during a prolonged period of COVID-19-induced disruption.

The bauma Innovation Award 2022 competition will start accepting entries on 3 May with a closing date of 3 September 2021.

Flags at JCB’s factories worldwide were today flying at half-mast in honour of the Duke of Edinburgh following his death at the age of 99.

Following the announcement from Buckingham Palace, JCB chairman Lord Bamford led tributes on behalf of the company.

MDU Resources subsidiary Knife River has acquired construction aggregates provider Mt. Hood Rock, further strengthening its position in Portland. 

Ammann has sold its first ACM Prime asphalt-mixing plant in Europe to an operator in Ukraine.

Italy-based off-road tyre retreading specialist Marangoni has won the Best Tyre Retreader category at the inaugural edition of the Recircle Awards.

South Korea-based Ssanyong Cement has deployed two custom-built HOTDISC combustion systems from FLSmidth to increase the use of alternative fuels at its Donghae and Yeongwol cement plants.

EvoQuip has chosen West Equipment Solutions to supply its compact crushing, screening and conveying equipment and spare parts throughout the Canadian province of Alberta. 

A rental and general contractor company in Surabaya, East Java, already relies on some of the leading machines from Volvo Construction Equipment, as it excavates limestone to meet Indonesia’s infrastructure demands. But four new additions are said to be taking the company’s work to the next level.

Robot 3D construction printer company COBOD International has recorded a profit for the second year in a row after growing almost 100%.

Bosses of the Danish firm, which produces large 3D printers for robot printing of buildings and wind turbine towers in concrete, also forecast even higher growth in 2021, despite the COVID-19 pandemic ‑ vowing to more than double 2020 revenue.

Another leading quarrying equipment manufacturer has entered the conveyor market. Meanwhile, new and proven conveyor belt makers and linked technology specialists have much to interest aggregate and other building material producers in 2021.

Construction materials provider Tarmac says it has become the first company in the UK to secure recognised industry approval for its new rubber modified asphalt.

The organiser of bauma Conexpo Africa has announced that the pan-African trade show for construction, building material, mining, agriculture & forestry machinery and vehicles, will not take place in 2021 as planned.