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GHH, the mining and tunnelling machinery maker, is creating a new service base for its customers in the heart of the German potash and salt mining industry.

CEMEX says it has successfully extended its Facilities Agreement with several financial institutions. The construction materials supplier says the extended agreement has now become one of the largest sustainability-linked loans in the world, incorporating about US$3.2bn of "green" commitments.

Three Leicestershire, UK-based sisters are following in the footsteps of their father and have arranged funding from Paragon Bank to establish their own plant hire business called FinniGroup.

Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) says that business activity has improved for the third quarter of 2020. According to the company, customer demand has picked up in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, orders for construction equipment and services recovered strongly in the third quarter of 2020, particularly in China.

Bruks Siwertell is to deploy a high-capacity ship unloader which will deliver dust-free cement handling at the Colonial Group's terminal in Savannah, Georgia.

Boral, a major international building and construction materials group, has appointed Tino La Spina has as its chief finance and strategy officer.

Hanson's King's Cross concrete plant has undergone a £2 million (€2.2mn) upgrade, doubling capacity at the central London site.

Aggregate Industries, a leading UK construction materials supplier, has appointed a new managing director for Spadeoak, its specialist contracting business.

CASE Construction Equipment has appointed Federico Bullo as the new head of Europe for the company's Construction Equipment businesses.

Volkan Bozay has been appointed as the CEO of the Turkish Cement Manufacturers’ Association (TÇMB), the international representative of the Turkish cement sector.

The North Dakota Department of Transportation (NDDoT) is to use drones and Botlink's map generation software to measure stockpiles of aggregate materials.

Italian construction and site vehicle machinery sales are forecast to be down by at least 8.7% in the second half of 2020, after a 20% reduction in the first half of the year.

Major UK construction materials supplier Aggregate Industries has launched an improved SuperLow range of asphalt, which includes a claimed industry-first carbon-neutral offering.

Hitachi says that buckets and quick couplers specifically designed for its ZW wheeled loader range are rising in popularity in the competitive Norwegian market.

The value of the global construction aggregates market is projected to grow at an annual rate of 5.2% over the next seven years, according to a new report.

With COVID-19 levels rising across the UK, the Mineral Products Association (MPA) has recognised the importance of maintaining the health and safety disciplines that will be essential to keep everyone COVID-secure and safe and healthy at work.

LafargeHolcim is to open a solar field which will provide clean and renewable energy to the Hagerstown Cement Plant in the US state of Maryland.

A huge ‘75’ artwork visible from outer space was carved into a Staffordshire, central England, stubble field to mark JCB’s impending 75th birthday.

Terex Trucks has signed Headwater Equipment Sales Ltd. as its new dealer in Alberta, Canada, to bring its articulated haulers to even more customers in the province’s construction, quarrying, mining, agriculture and oil and gas sectors.

The working prototype of a new 20-tonne excavator, powered by a hydrogen cell, is a potential game changer in the move to a zero-carbon quarrying sector.