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IFAT Eurasia strengthens its position as the leading environmental trade fair in the region

Participation in IFAT Eurasia 2019 by 339 solution providers, including 226 international companies from a wide geographical area from Brazil to South Korea, from Canada to India, once again demon-strated the continuing importance of Turkey as a hub for the environmental sector in the Eurasian region.

Cemex USA launched its 2021 Safety Week by allowing employees to demonstrate an approach developed to improve hazard identification, hazard control, risk identification and assessment. 

CEMEX Ventures, CEMEX's corporate venture capital and open innovation unit, has invested in Modulous, a company with a disruptive offsite construction system, enabled by a digital platform, to allow the high-speed delivery of quality, sustainable and affordable homes.

John McDowell, one of the mineral extractives industry’s longest-serving professionals and fellow of the Institute of Quarrying (IQ), has been recognised in the New Year’s Honours 2021 List.

Hoffmann Green Cement Technologies has signed a five-year agreement for the supply of low-carbon cement with French property developer Ouest Réalisations.

Companies are deploying new loading equipment in a diverse number of activities including Portland Stone operations, waste recycling and concrete production.

Rising Russian aggregates demand led a major national aggregates producer to invest in a state-of-the-art Metso plant, with impressive results.

A Powerscreen Gladiator portable electric crushing and screening plant setup is rocking it for a Powerscreen of California, Hawaii and Nevada (CA, HI & NV) customer.

The installation includes a Gladiator PT400 jaw crusher; Gladiator H6203 and H8203 screeners; a Gladiator MT1150 cone crusher; and 60ft and 80ft Powerscreen CA, HI & NV electric conveyors.

The customer is using the state-of-the-art Powerscreen plant to screen material down to No. 16 mash minus.

The World Cement Association has set out its priorities for the industry in 2021 with decarbonisation, green product innovation and COVID-19 support among the issues high up the agenda.

Boral has announced with its joint venture partner, an affiliate of Lone Star Funds, to sell the North America-based Meridian Brick business to Wienerberger for $250 million.

EvoQuip has appointed FJS Plant Repairs (FJS Plant) as its authorised distributor for Ireland.

Leading UK construction materials supplier Aggregate Industries has appointed Andy Swinnerton as the new managing director of the firm's Aggregates division.

CEMEX has provided Vertua low carbon concrete for a new office development in the Climate Innovation District in Leeds, northern England.

The next Extractive Industry Geology #EIGWebinar will be ‘Innovations in Dust Management’ by Daniel Quinn, senior consultant, DustScanAQ at midday on Wednesday 20 January 2021 on Zoom.

Investment in a premium mobile crushing & screening plant is paying off for a top Polish quarrying firm, while two major global market manufacturers have launched new models.

Danish cement and mining equipment and solutions specialist FLSmidth has revealed that it is in negotiations with ThyssenKrupp concerning the acquisition of ThyssenKrupp's mining business.

Vital new infrastructure projects fuelled healthy aggregates demand across Eastern Europe before the COVID-19 pandemic-induced disruption, affecting the region’s building works from the first quarter this year onwards. However, with most projects paused rather than abandoned, it will become an attractive market once again for aggregate producers and major original quarrying equipment manufacturers.

The American Concrete Institute (ACI) is replacing its in-person concrete convention in Baltimore, Maryland, with a virtual event from 28 March to 1 April.

Zoomlion has launched its first full range of truck-mounted concrete pumps in Europe. The launch comes after the Zoomlion Group successfully introduced its cranes, forklifts and aerial work platforms to European customers.