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LafargeHolcim joins the MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium (MCSC) as a founding member, representing the building materials industry, to accelerate climate action through innovation. The company joins a range of influential other sector leaders to work with MIT’s world-class research teams to develop scalable solutions to tackle climate change.

Tsurumi has unveiled its new GPN 837 unit said to be ideal for pumping out heavy slurry water from quarry and other customer work sites.

CEMEX has supplied the required cement and concrete for the Teruel Airport Platform (PLATA) in Spain, which is claimed to be the largest maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) airport in Europe.

The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) has announced a miner was fatally injured while using a tool to remove a down-the-hole hammer. 

The MSHA says the drill motor turned unexpectedly, pinning the driller’s leg between the tool and the drill mast.

This is the first fatality reported in 2021 and the first classified as 'machinery', the administration adds. 

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CEMEX is selling certain assets in Southeast France as part of its strategy to focus its portfolio development on high growth markets.

LafargeHolcim has bought Italy-based Edile Commerciale and France's Cemex Rhone Alpes, both suppliers of ready-mix concrete and aggregates.

HeidelbergCement says it is starting the further development and scaling-up of the LEILAC technology (Low Emissions Intensity Lime And Cement) together with the Australian technology company Calix and a European consortium.

The National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association (NSSGA) vice president of government and regulatory affairs Michele Stanley has issued a statement supporting the Saving America's Mines Act.

“On behalf of the 400 members of the National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association, I applaud Rep. Pete Stauber (MN) for introducing the Saving America’s Mines (SAM) Act. This legislation provides needed certainty for aggregates operators who supply communities on and near federal lands with essential construction materials.

European construction equipment association CECE says the process to revise the EU Machinery Directive is in a crucial phase, with the European Commission’s proposals to update the machinery legislation due to be published in March.

Retail sales of construction and earthmoving equipment continued to show a strong recovery at the end of 2020.

BESIX is buying STRABAG’s Netherlands-based subsidiary.

HeidelbergCement's Polish subsidiary, Górażdże Cement, and the multinational company BayWa r.e. have signed a purchase agreement for electricity from Witnica Solar Park.

Aggregates demand has surged in China with the government investing heavily in infrastructure projects to drive economic growth. Liam McLoughlin reports on how the country is bouncing back from the COVID-19 pandemic

Lafarge Canada, Svante and Total have completed phase II of Project CO2ment, an initiative to capture industrial levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions at a cement plant.

The partners are carrying out the project at Lafarge's Richmond cement plant in British Columbia. 

The plant is now equipped with Svante's capture unit, a carbon capture technology aimed at trapping CO2 produced from industrial processes. 

In April 2020, the very first new Komatsu PC1250-11 Front Shovel excavator was delivered to Lhoist Germany Rheinkalk GmbH, and quickly put to work by the customer to extract dolomite at the Scharzfeld Quarry located south east of Hannover, in the centre of Germany.

Rodolfo Reimberg, vice-president marketing Portable Air at Atlas Copco, assesses quarry operators’ choices between investing in a mobile compressor powered by an electric motor or a diesel engine

The Ibero-American Federation of Ready-Mix Concrete (FIHP) has staged a virtual event to present the first 10 Concrete Sustainability Council (CSC) certificates granted in the Latin America region.

The World Cement Association has launched the Gender Focus Network, an initiative aiming to improve the representation of women within the global cement community.

Norbetong, the Norwegian concrete and building materials subsidiary of HeidelbergCement, is deploying five new concrete trucks with electricity-powered mixer drums in the Oslo area.

JCB says it is recruiting more than 400 additional UK shop floor employees as the company gears up for a surge in production.