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Engcon UK has started a new partnership with Hitachi Construction Machinery UK (HCMUK) to supply the Engcon range of tiltrotators for fitting at HCMUK’s preparation centre in the North East of England.

The partnership will see HCMUK install the tiltrotators on its range of excavators, complete and ready to go to work upon delivery. Customers of Hitachi and Engcon will be offered a full-service solution from the point of order to delivery.

With COVID-19 continuing to affect the lives of many of its members, the UK Institute of Quarrying has issued its latest reminder that its long-established Benevolent Fund is there to provide support in times of difficulty.

Seven high-performing students at the University of Derby Centre for Mineral Products in Derby, central England, are celebrating personal success in the 2020 Institute of Quarrying (IQ) Student Awards.

The British Geological Survey (BGS) has appointed Andrew McConnochie as its new director of operations.

The French division of CEMEX has signed a three-year partnership agreement with low carbon cement supplier Hoffmann Green Cement Technologies.

The Portland Cement Association (PCA) has launched a promotion initiative emphasising the sustainable benefits of portland-limestone cement (PLC).

HeidelbergCement’s new high-tech material ‘i-tech 3D’ has been used in the construction of Germany’s first 3D-concrete printer-based home. The cutting-edge i-tech 3D product was developed by the HeidelbergCement subsidiary Italcementi specifically for 3D printing and is suitable for versatile use with various types of 3D printers.

CDE, a leading global market manufacturer of wet processing equipment, has revealed the full agenda and line-up of keynote speakers for its upcoming Engineering Insights Global Virtual Event.

Superior Industries, a global manufacturer and supplier of bulk material processing and handling systems, has been selected as the material handling supplier for NRG Argentina's (NRG) new frac sand plant in Río Negro, Argentina.

As China’s aggregates and construction equipment manufacturers ramp up production following the global virus pandemic, what shape will they and their markets be in? Are they thinking local or global? Click here to find out more.

Intercomp is offering on-site weight monitoring for heavy vehicles such as excavators, that assists operators and their clients in meeting increasingly onerous transport regulations.

Indonesia-based PT Manado Karya Anugrah says a fleet of Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) machines that it has been using since last year is delivering exceptionally profitable operations.

A third Volvo L150H loading shovel has been supplied to Albion Stone for its mining operations at the Jordans and Bowers mines on the Isle of Portland in Dorset, south-west England.

The impact of COVID-19 on the South African cement industry has been devastating, with Bheki Mthembu, Head of the Inland Business Unit for Africa’s largest cement producer, PPC, describing it as the ‘final straw’ on an industry already in survival mode prior to the pandemic. He discusses the current state of the industry, the cement sector’s future and the role of technology in the ‘new normal’.

The European construction equipment manufacturers association CECE has held its annual congress virtually for the first time, broadcasting the interactive event to 650 participants from Stockholm, Sweden.

IRock Crushers has chosen Maxim Equipment to sell and service its products in California, Oregon and Washington. 

The Wildlife Habitat Council (WHC) has given building materials giant Cemex the 2020 Corporate Conservation Leadership Award honouring the company's biodiversity conservation efforts.

Deutz, the German diesel engine maker for the off-highway machine industry, has officially brought a new assembly line on stream at its Cologne site.

Northern Irish construction products and quarrying company Quinn Industrial Holdings has unveiled Mannok as the new brand identity for the organisation.

Activity in the UK construction sector picked up speed in September, helped by a post-lockdown bounce in the housing market, according to new PMI (Purchasing Managers' Index) data from IHS Markit and CIPS (the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply).