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EPC-UK is offering its 'Roles and Responsibilities of Sentries' course as an online 'Lifelong Learning Live' webinar at 10am on Thursday, 30th July.

CEMEX has launched its first carbon-neutral concrete product range.

The Mineral Products Association (MPA) has welcomed recognition of the sector’s essential role in the economy and the improvement in its environmental credentials in a report published by HM Treasury in response to the Aggregates Levy review.

Former Astec Industries CEO and president Ben Brock has bought asphalt plant component business JBK Enterprises.

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.

Lafarge Canada has joined forces with Victoria’s Capital Regional District on Vancouver Island to use biosolids as fuel at its Richmond cement plant.

Lafarge's western Canadian Geocycle team received $753,000 from the government of British Columbia's CleanBC Industry Fund for the capital investment in a silo designed to co-process biosolids as low carbon fuel for the Richmond cement kiln.

The company says the silo and its associated systems will receive, store and feed biosolids into the kiln.

Construction is underway in Germany on what is claimed to be the world's first building made entirely of carbon-fibre reinforced concrete.

The material that is being used on the project at the Technical University of Dresden is said by the building's architect HENN to enable more durable structures that can save up to 50% in CO2 emissions.

Aggregate Industries, a leading UK construction and infrastructure player, has achieved international recognition from the Concrete Sustainability Council (CSC), receiving a Gold Certificate, the highest standard for aggregates supply, at Glensanda, the largest granite quarry in Europe. The company is the first in the UK to receive the coveted international prize.

Liebherr has supplied its 100,000th concrete truck mixer - an HTM 905.

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

The VDMA, Germany’s construction equipment and plant engineering trade association, has stressed how confidence and national, regional and global economic stimulus programmes will be the two key pillars of post-COVID-19-pandemic recovery.

Wire screening media provider Major is offering aggregate and mining producers access to its free virtual training series to help operations optimise efficiency and team learning amid the conditions caused by COVID-19.

ASTM International has proposed a standard to evaluate the tensile performance of fibre-reinforced concrete (FRC) using cylindrical specimens with double-punch loading.

Shih-ho Chao, ASTM member and professor of civil engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington, says a double-punch test is an indirect tensile test method that shows much less variability and is more time efficient than typical beam-type testing.

LiuGong North America has appointed five construction equipment dealers to expand its dealer network in the US.

The company says the dealerships will provide the LiuGong and Dressta brands to areas that previously did not have the opportunity to put them to the test.

LiuGong acquired Dressta in 2012 and renamed the manufacturer of heavy construction equipment LiuGong Dressta Machinery.

Malvese Equipment Company, a power equipment distributor from Long Island, now carries the LiuGong and Dressta brands.

CEMEX has announced its participation in the FastCarb Project, administrated by IREX, which aims to capture CO₂ in concrete, which is then used as aggregates.

Legalising e-scooter for UK highways could threaten road safety, according to the Mineral Products Association, whose members employ or use heavy drivers of large vehicles.

Bonfiglioli Group has merged its two UK facilities in Warrington and Redditch and moved into a new 2,416 sq m facility located in Calver Quay, Warrington, north-west England.

Aggregates industry software and technology specialist Command Alkon is combining its resources with software provider Ruckit to remove the need for paper tickets and to speed up invoice reconciliation.

Rucklit's CEO Tarun Nimmagadda says: “Ruckit and Command Alkon’s partnership was forged on the jobsite and in the service of companies that purchase heavy materials.

The American Concrete Industry (ACI) Foundation’s Strategic Development Council (SDC) has announced it will host its first virtual technology forum from 25-27 August.

The SDC Technology Forum 48 will consist of two separate webinar sessions, which will include four 30-minute presentations. All participants will have the option of requesting a PDH certificate for self-reported credit.

The SDC collaborates across the concrete industry to address technical challenges within the industry and hosts forums for the introduction and nurturing of new technologies.

Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) saw its second-quarter 2020 sales drop 14% as the adverse effects of COVID-19 on society and economic development characterised the Swedish manufacturer's trading results.