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

Hitachi has introduced a range of new high-performance hydraulic breakers for use with its full line-up of ZX excavators from ZX10 up to ZX890.

Liebherr is starting sales of its new self-service concrete plant for building material suppliers.

The plant, available from this summer, is designed to enable suppliers to extend their range of services to end customers, including supplying them more smoothly and efficiently with different types of concrete.

The Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA) has appointed Dinah McLeod as its new chief executive. She succeeds outgoing chief executive Benjamin Sporton.

McLeod most recently served as a director of ‘The B Team’, an innovative and standard-setting non-profit initiative which was established to improve business practices to enhance the well-being of people and the planet.

The organisers of the INTERMAT construction machinery exhibition in Paris are taking the event in a new direction for 2021.

Austrian crushing and screening plant maker SBM Mineral Processing (SBM) has added senior aggregates industry figure Michael Brookshaw to its international distribution team.

CASE Construction Equipment says it has recorded one of its largest deliveries for 2020 with an order for 125 units from the Angolan Ministry of Transport.

Finnish material-handling attachments manufacturer Allu has appointed Moviter as its new distributor in Portugal.

Metso is rolling out the new Nordberg HP900 Series cone crusher for the aggregates and mining markets.

Lehigh Hanson has published cement plant-product specific Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) utilising the new North American Product Category Rule (PCR).

Lehigh says the EPDs show the immediate global warming potential (GWP) in Kg of carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent reduction when ordinary portland cement (OPC) also known as GU/Type I/II is switched to EcoCemPLC.

Concrete mixtures incorporating EcoCemPLC could reduce the GWP by as much as 10% below the use of OPC, the company adds.

Tire and rubber company Bridgestone has purchased iTrack Solutions from UK-based Transense Technologies to provide its aggregates sector customers with mobility-related data to help improve operations.

Tomohiro Kusano, vice president and senior officer, G-MAA (mining, aircraft, agriculture) solutions business at Bridgestone, says: “This acquisition helps move Bridgestone closer to its goal of becoming a leader in sustainable and advanced mobility solutions.”

The new Weir Minerals Sand Wash Plant is said to be a complete sand washing solution drawing on Weir Minerals’ long experience in the sand and aggregates industry.

Mineral product producers keen to widen their income streams can find attractive commercial opportunities in recycled aggregate and concrete products.

CEMEX Ventures, the corporate venture capital and open innovation unit of building materials giant CEMEX, has invested in US recycling company Arqlite.

Frank Squires, washing product specialist at Superior Industries, is retiring after a 60-plus year career in the aggregates industry.

Telescopic materials handling plant company Magni South Africa has appointed Shankland Lindsay as its new CEO.

Cemex Ventures is investing in US-based Arqlite SPC, a start-up that produces light recycled aggregates from plastic waste.

According to a report this week on the International Cement Review website, the product benefits from a low CO2 footprint and a greater durability for drainage, precast and lightweight concrete systems for non-structural use.

A father and son from Britain's best-known construction and quarrying equipment family have joined forces to create the world's first hydrogen-powered excavator.

JCB chairman Lord Bamford and his son, Jo Bamford, who runs Ryse Hydrogen and Wrightbus, have spent two years working on the construction industry's first-ever hydrogen-powered excavator and a further year testing the prototype.

A father and son from Britain's best-known construction and quarrying equipment family have joined forces to create the world's first hydrogen-powered digger.

CEMEX is capitalising on its expertise as a globally renowned manufacturer of building materials by launching a new testing service for construction contractors and materials suppliers in the UK.