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Construction and quarrying technology company Trimble has added two new US dealership channels for its SITECH construction technology, SITECH Midway and SITECH Mid-America.

Metso Outotec says its aggregates equipment business saw a gradual improvement from a weak April to the end of June.

Global aggregates equipment manufacturer Metso Outotec has acquired the Australia-based fastener and wear monitoring technology provider Davies Wear Plate Systems for an undisclosed sum. 

The acquired technology will offer quarry managers fasteners with a unique locking mechanism that does not require traditional studs and nuts. The system has been designed to enable faster and safer maintenance work.

Cedarapids, a Terex MPS brand, has chosen Frontline Machinery to sell its portable and modular crushing and screening range in the Canadian province of British Columbia.

Frontline's president Daryl Todd says the company will stock a number of models and sizes of jaw, cone and screen plants while also bringing in more specialised plants on request.

Beumer Group spin-off company Beam is enabling ambitious logistics start-up Sparrow Networks to expand its optimal cement industry spare parts supply business.

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused massive disruption to the global aggregates and other building materials sectors, not least in three of Aggregates Business magazine’s core markets of Asia, Africa and the Middle East. To their credit, many national governments across the three regions took swift action to reduce the spread of coronavirus in their respective countries. Now, many nations are starting to emerge from lockdown, most notably China.

UK-based building materials supplier Hanson has donated 138 tonnes of asphalt to resurface the car park at Wakefield Hospice in West Yorkshire, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year.

Magna Tyres is strengthening its East European market presence with the opening of an office in the Czech Republic.

Danish cement and mining products provider FLSmidth saw a 30% year-on-year fall in revenue in the second quarter, with its cement operations particularly affected during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Terex MPS (Minerals Processing Systems) has introduced the new MJ55 Modular Jaw Crusher, designed for large quarries or contractors that want a stationary-type design without the complexity of a standard stick-built plant.

SigmaRoc says it has returned a strong performance in the first half of 2020, despite the negative effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The American Concrete Institute (ACI) has developed several new certification programmes and has launched an app, all designed to help supervisors verify the status of ACI-certified individuals onsite.

The institute says the ACI Certification Verify app allows users to verify the status of these individuals through their certification ID number, name and total number ACI-certified individuals in an area.

Summit Materials has announced that Anne Noonan will replace Thomas Hill as president and CEO from the beginning of September.

Hill will serve as a senior advisor through the end of the year and will transition to a consulting role from 1 January 2021.

Hill says: “When I founded Summit in 2009, I could not have imagined the growth and success the company would achieve over the following 11 years, and it has been an honour to serve as CEO throughout this remarkable period.

CASE Construction Equipment has launched latest version of its SiteWatch telematics platform.

Caterpillar has produced three special vehicles to mark passing the landmark of producing 175,000 of its medium-high drive dozers.

Taking the time to inspect and maintain a crawler excavator’s undercarriage will help increase machine life. If the undercarriage is not routinely inspected and maintained, it can easily cost owners valuable time, money and potentially decrease the track’s lifespan.

Sales of heavy-side building materials, including aggregates, ready-mixed concrete (RMC), asphalt and mortar saw unprecedented declines in Great Britain during the second quarter of the year.

Construction materials provider Breedon says it has completed its acquisition of certain UK assets and operations from CEMEX, which the company first announced on 8 January this year.

ORBCOMM, a US-based provider of telematics and Internet of Things (IoT) solutions, has expanded its long-standing agreement with Terex Corporation.

The two companies will continue to collaborate on the development of new technologies for their "heavy equipment IoT device and cloud-based data reporting and analytics platform."

According to a statement this week: "Terex will extend its commitment to the use of ORBCOMM’s telematics system for seven years, with an automatic renewal for four additional years.

The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) has issued a fatality alert after a superintendent was electrocuted while working inside an energised enclosure.

The MSHA says the victim was electrocuted while attempting to reverse the polarity of a 4,160 VAC circuit by switching the leads inside an energised 4,160 VAC enclosure that contained a vacuum circuit breaker and disconnect.

This is the 11th fatality reported in 2020 classified as electrical, the administration adds.