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The foundation stone has been laid for Sennebogen's new €25 million customer service centre in Lower Bavaria, Germany.

As the Environment Agency (EA) launches its new blueprint for UK flood protection, Aggregate Industries has welcomed the plans, as investment in sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) has a major role to play in protecting and preparing the nation against the rising threat of flooding.

Command Alkon has formed a new collaboration partnership with Ruckit, a collaborative transportation management software provider for the heavy materials and construction industries.

Aggregate Industries has achieved international certification from the British Standards Institution (BSI), receiving the ISO 45001 Standard in Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems.

Colombia's Cementos Argos has announced more than 70% of its customers are buying cement digitally through its Argos One booking solution.

Cementos Argos says the platform allows users to manage orders, view account statements and monitor deliveries and product quality.

Aggregates group Chaney Enterprises has stepped up its plans to minimize the company's carbon footprint by installing CarbonCure solutions at three additional Maryland concrete plants: Annapolis, Seat Pleasant and Upper Marlboro.

Three years ago, Chaney Enterprises partnered with CarbonCure Technologies to reduce the carbon footprint of its concrete plant at the group's Green-Star Certified concrete plant located in Waldorf, MD in December 2017.

Hanson has launched a new Collect & Go service for asphalt customers at eight sites across the UK.

Crushing, screening and conveying equipment manufacturer Terex Finlay has appointed Sigma Bulgaria as an authorised sales, service, parts and rental provider in Bulgaria.

GIC, the vertical form fill and seal machinery manufacturer, has this month supplied two brand new machines to Haith Group for use on its innovative mobile aggregate bagging systems.

The Mineral Products Association (MPA) has welcomed the Government’s announcement setting out details of the £5.2 billion pledged for flood defences and increasing resilience.

The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) has issued a fatality alert after a dragline and its operator were found submerged in 25 feet of water.

The MSHA says the quarry worker had been using the dragline to remove material from a pond.

Divers attempted to locate the operator and were able extricate the dragline from the pond after two days.

The victim was recovered from the engine compartment behind the operator's cab.

This is the ninth fatality reported in 2020, and the second classified as machinery, the administration adds.

The American Concrete Institute (ACI) has launched a program to certify individuals who pass examinations by performing specified nondestructive tests on hardened concrete.

The ACI says the Nondestructive Testing Specialist – Concrete Strength certification program was developed under the guidance of ACI Committee 228 Nondestructive Testing.

This ACI committee identified the need to qualify those practitioners using these test methods in evaluating in-place concrete strength.

CEMEX has confirmed the mothballing of its South Ferriby cement plant in Barton-upon-Humber, North Lincolnshire, England.

The move follows a period of consultation with employee representatives and the Unite union.

It will affect around 110 employees who are currently based at the plant, and CEMEX anticipates that the majority of redundancies will take place before the end of this month.

South African surface mining industry association ASPASA is carrying out an industry-wide survey of its quarrying members to determine the sector's adoption of national and international quality standards.

Cementos Argos, the cement company of the Argos Group, has been chosen among the top five companies in the construction materials sector for best practices in corporate governance, environmental and social management.

German building materials giant HeidelbergCement says its Q2 2020 preliminary revenue has exceeded the capital market forecast.

Materials provider LafargeHolcim has been appointed as the exclusive concrete and cement supplier for the Bogotá-Villavicencio road infrastructure project in Colombia.

The new route will make the journey from Villavicencio to the Colombian capital Bogotá three times faster. It is estimated that the travel time will be reduced by 66%, from the current four hours to just over an hour.

Liu Gong North America has chosen Atlantic Industrial Equipment to offer its wheel loaders, excavators, mini excavators, Dressta dozers, skid steers and industrial forklifts in Canada.

Liu Gong says the dealership is partnering with Nova Truck Centres for locations and product support from Nova Scotia facilities located in the Halifax Regional Municipality in Dartmouth and the towns of Truro and Westville.

Tiltrotator and attachment manufacturer Engcon has reported an increase in net sales of 13% for 2019, the tenth consecutive year that sales have increased.

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