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The secretary-general of European construction equipment manufacturing association CECE has highlighted the recent improving trends in the sector's business climate after the disastrous decline in April and May.

German building materials giant HeidelbergCement will write off around €3.4 billion before tax due to the coronavirus crisis, German financial media reports.

June saw a sharp turnaround in the performance of the UK construction sector as the restart of on-site work lifted output volumes and boosted business confidence.

R Brunone has developed the new Sparcric G maintenance solution for replacing conveyor belt rollers.

The National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association (NSSGA) has welcomed a House of Representatives vote to pass the $1.5 trillion infrastructure Moving Forward Act.

The NSSGA CEO Michael Johnson said: “We are encouraged to see movement on the issue of infrastructure investment.

"This is a mammoth $1.5 trillion infrastructure package, which includes $319 billion in desperately needed funding for our highways and bridges.

"Rebuilding America’s infrastructure is a non-partisan concern and should be a bipartisan effort to work on a solution.

Colombia's industry watchdog (SIC) has denied registration of the brand Colclinker, submitted by local cement company Compania Colombiana de Clincker.

The brand was intended to identify products under class 2 of the International Nice Classification.

Colombian ceramics company Corona had opposed the request due to similarities between the two brands' logos, although SIC ruled that there was no risk of confusion.

SIC concluded that the Colclinker brand could not be registered because an identical brand had already been registered by Cementos Argos.

Metso Outotec has begun employee cooperation negotiations related to organisational restructuring following the merger of Metso's Minerals business and Outotec on 1 July 2020.

SigmaRoc's wholly-owned Belgian subsidiary CDH (Carrières du Hainaut) has signed an agreement with the Walloon government which will see it co-fund around €700,000 of an estimated €3 million of infrastructure works required as part of the company's blue stone quarry extension project at Soignies.

The Komatsu group of companies in Europe has made around €100,000 in donations to three organisations to support the fight against the spread of Covid-19.

The U.S.-based Association of Equipment Manufacturers will host a virtual Workforce Solutions summit 10-12 August, 2020 targeted at c-suite and human resources professionals in the manufacturing industry.

The off-highway machine engines industry is full of innovation, with manufacturers keen to get back to full production following the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Equipment manufacturer Liebherr and electric mobility company Designwerk have combined to develop fully electric truck concrete mixers with 10m³ and 12m³ drums on a 5-axle chassis.

National Cement, a US subsidiary of Vicat, has been fined $148,000 over mercury emissions at its integrated Ragland plant in Alabama.

The fine has been imposed by the Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM), says a report out this week on www.globalcement.com.

The plant is alleged to have violated the mercury emissions rules for 123 days between May 2019 and February 2020.

Sandvik Rock Tools is launching an entirely new digital solution: My Rock Tools – Analyze. The mobile application is designed to help customers improve their rock tool performance through analysing failure and discard reasons.

“Sandvik Rock Tools suite of digital solutions serves our customers in a number of ways, and we are now very happy to be able to add My Rock Tools Analyze in order to offer easy-to-use remote support for failure and discard analysis," says Charles Macfadyen, Digital Solutions, Rock Tools Division, Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology.

The Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) is launching 'Equipped to Vote', a digital campaign designed to inform and mobilise the 2.8 million men and women of the U.S. equipment manufacturing industry leading up to the general election in the country this November.

The international trade group says the goal of the campaign is to educate supporters on the policies that matter to the industry, encourage greater civic engagement, and help elect pro-manufacturing candidates.

Kevin Garcia, general manager of Civil Specialty Solutions at Trimble, talks about technology’s expanding role in driving operational efficiency, long-term productivity and his vision of the connected quarry

Indocement Tunggal Prakarsa (Indocement) saw its year-on-year revenue fall nearly 10% (-9.91%) to IDR 3.73 trillion (US$246.12 million) in the first quarter of 2020.

Continental is combining its global activities in the special-purpose tyre segment.

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

Being able to quickly access and install high-performing replacement wear parts on quarrying plant minimises downtime leading to enhanced worksite efficiency.