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The American Concrete Institute (ACI) is offering a programme to certify individuals required to properly inspect the placement of shotcrete.

The ACI says comprehension of the responsibilities and qualification requirements of a Shotcrete Nozzleman are necessary.

Ritchie Bros. says it has quickly adapted to online-only auctions during the COVID-19 pandemic and has seen a sharp increase in bidder registrations and solid returns for its sellers.

Haver & Boecker Niagara is offering Tyler engineered modular screen media which it says provides the best combination of open area and wear life in both wet and dry applications.

Pumping technology provider Tsurumi has unveiled the highest-flow versions of its best-selling HS Series pumps, the HS3.75SL (manual) and HSZ3.75SL (automatic).

Germany has rightly received praise for its response to date to the COVID-19 pandemic. The efficiency and effectiveness of the country’s lockdown coupled with rapid government intervention to protect the economy and jobs have, without doubt, saved lives and protected people’s livelihoods.

Volvo CE has partnered with professional futurists to gather their forecasts for the industries that its customers work in, including construction, mining and infrastructure. The construction equipment manufacturer has also partnered with students from the Columbia College of Hollywood to animate these visions of the future.

Intercomp, a manufacturer of portable vehicle weighing and measurement products, has introduced the S30 CPU advanced touchscreen indicator for the self-contained operation of portable scales.

US-based Intercomp says the new indicator provides the ability to efficiently run monitoring programmes for applications like weight compliance, inventory tracking, and safety screening.

Having secured distribution rights for the Varistem – a patented blast stemming plug for mining, quarrying and civil blasting applications – South Africa-based ERG Industrial is currently doing local trials to prove the potential productivity increase and downstream savings stemming plugs can provide to African quarries and mines.

Total global metals & mining industry merger & acquisition deals in Q2 2020 were worth US$8.86bn, according to GlobalData’s deals database.

Drive system manufacturer Deutz says it registered a "significant overall decline" in business performance in the first half of 2020 as a result of the coronavirus crisis.

Jacqueline O’Donovan, managing director of London, UK-based waste management company O’Donovan Waste Disposal, has been made a Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM).

US aggregates giant Vulcan Materials has reported earnings from continuing operations of US$211m (US$1.58 per diluted share) in the second quarter, an increase of 7% on Q2 2019.

Acknowledging the unprecedented situation that the Covid-19 outbreak has imposed on Europe, CECE together with SACE by thinking outside of the box is proposing to you an alternative meeting opportunity. In the world of digitalisation CECE is presenting a digital Congress. Connect to CECE's exciting event livestreamed from a TV studio in Stockholm. Taking advantage of this convenient setup CECE hopes to connect with you in large numbers!

The new San Giorgio Bridge in Genoa, Italy was opened on August 3, replacing the Morandi Bridge which collapsed in August 2018. The new bridge was designed by world-famous architect Renzo Piano for his hometown of Genoa and has a total length of 1,067m.

Salt River Materials Group (SRMG) is to remove or 'harvest' fly ash from an onsite landfill at the Colorado Generating Station owned by Salt River Project (SRP).

SRMG, a supplier of portland and masonry cements, will invest additional capital dollars in beneficiation equipment to process the previously landfilled ash, resulting in a long term supply of ASTM C618 Class F fly ash. The harvesting project will permanently and significantly reduce the size of the current landfill, SRMG says.

EvoQuip has appointed its first distributor in South America after Dynsai SA (Dynsai) became the Terex brand's official distributor in Argentina.

Dynsai will represent the full EvoQuip portfolio of compact crushing and screening equipment, genuine spare parts and machine maintenance.

Dynsai began in 2002, a sister company of Repas SA. Initially Dynsai started in sales of construction equipment and has grown more into a material handling business.

In Indonesia, where more than 55% of electric power is generated from coal, MB Crusher’s MB-HDS323 shaft screener is said to be working to reduce all unnecessary coal quarry production costs, even during bad seasonal weather periods.

Two new vehicle purchases are helping a Scottish quarrying and construction company to
maximise the efficiency of recycling and reduce the amount of materials it sends to landfill

Astec Industries has acquired the Concrete Equipment Company (CON-E-CO) and BMH Systems, two full-line concrete batch plant manufacturers serving customers around the world.

Analyst GlobalData forecasts that overall construction output will contract by 11.6% in France in 2020.