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Global supply chains involve lots of organisations doing lots of transactions every day, all around the world. Everything is based on trust. How do you make sure that every link in the chain is doing what it is supposed to do?

Conveyor manufacturers offer increasingly innovative solutions for large and small to medium-sized building material suppliers.

The Saint-Maurice-La-Clouère quarry near Poitiers has become the second largest floating photovoltaic power station in France.

Doosan Infracore Europe has launched the new HB-series hydraulic breaker range for the European market.

Ash Grove is upgrading its Port Manatee deep water import terminal in Florida to improve its capacity to import cement, cement slag and fly ash.

A trio of major European crushing and screening plant manufacturers has much to offer when it comes to equipment safety and innovation.

Ash Grove is upgrading its Port Manatee deep water import terminal in Florida to improve its capacity to import cement, cement slag and fly ash. Ash Grove regional president Monica Manolas, says: “The upgrade of the Port Manatee import terminal will expand our capabilities and strengthen our ability to meet growing demand in the region.”

Building materials provider CEMEX has been included in the "FORTUNE 2020 Change the World" list for the third time.

Atlas Copco has introduced the new HiLight H6+ lighting tower that offers low operational costs and reduced noise levels while increasing illumination coverage.

Maptek has added a rock fragmentation analysis tool to the new 2020 edition of its PointStudio geospatial modelling and reporting software.

Smart Sand has acquired frac sand mines and related processing facilities from Eagle Materials in Utica, Illinois and New Auburn, Wisconsin.

Smart Sand has acquired frac sand mines and related processing facilities from Eagle Materials in Utica, Illinois and New Auburn, Wisconsin.

Smart sand says the facilities process approximately 3.5 million tonnes annually, of which around 1.6 million tonnes has access to the BNSF rail line.

The National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association (NSSGA) has announced Martin Marietta, Cemex and Lehigh Hanson are among the winners of the Community Relations Excellence Awards.

The NSSGA says the awards recognise producers’ achievements in enhancing the public’s perception of the industry and the individual producer’s operation through their community involvement.

Tsurumi, a leading global market manufacturer of submersible pumps, generators, and process equipment for the quarrying, mining and other industries, is testing a new service for pump operators: live broadcasts on the internet that teach technical knowledge.

Rapid Power Generation (RPG) has entered the gas-fuelled generator market with the launch of a new partnership with Pramac-Generac. The new agreement will see the company act as sole distributors of the Pramac industrial gas range of generators for the whole of Ireland.

Liebherr is this summer launching its new self-service concrete plant – said to offer quick and easy access to high-quality concrete.

Ammann is providing an ABP HRT mixing plant which will produce 250,000 tonnes of asphalt on-site for the project to renovate a section of the N2 Motorway in Switzerland.

Canadian clean technology company CarbonCure has announced an investment co-led by Amazon and Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV) will be used to tackle the carbon footprint of concrete.

StonePoint Materials has acquired River Aggregates in a move which it says will complement its Louisiana-based sand and gravel producer Southern Aggregates.

StonePoint CEO Colin Oerton says: “River provides an excellent starting point for StonePoint’s westward expansion into Texas.”

River operates two sand and gravel facilities serving Houston and Beaumont, Texas. The company's leaders Rob Van Til and Carl Davis will join StonePoint.

A miner died when he fell while attempting to close a hatch on the top of a bulk material trailer, says the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA).

The MSHA says the miner was wearing a fall protection harness but his lanyard was not attached to a secure anchorage.

This is the 15th fatality reported in 2020 and the fourth classified as 'slip or fall of person', the administration adds.

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