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Tarmac has become the first company in its sector sign up to the EV100 – a global initiative by The Climate Group bringing together businesses committed to accelerating the transition to electric vehicles (EV) – as part of its ongoing commitment to sustainability.

South Korea’s aggregates sector is set for a period of strong demand thanks to big government-backed private-sector spending on new national infrastructure

ABB Ability Smart Sensors provide wireless condition monitoring for Dodge gear reducers delivering information that can prevent unexpected downtime and extend equipment life.

The Cement Association of Canada (CAC) is calling on the federal government to prioritize construction and infrastructure spending to help boost economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.

CAC's CEO Michael McSweeney, says: “A successful economic recovery will require a commitment to use time-sensitive infrastructure spending.

"We have a very short construction season in Canada and municipalities have lost much of their financial capacity to fund important infrastructure projects this year.

Granite has been awarded the Child Project 4 (CP4) portion of the Cosumnes Bridge Replacement Project by the California Department of Transportation's (Caltrans) in Sacramento County.

The contact is part of a phased delivery of the overall $158 million project. The $16 million project contract is included in Granite’s second quarter 2020 backlog, the company says.

Metso has introduced a drag and drop 3D crushing and screening plant configurator, which it says allows users to design more efficient plants on their screens using real-time insights.

German building materials giant HeidelbergCement held its 131st Annual General Meeting on Thursday 4 June - attracting significantly higher shareholder interest than usual. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the company held a purely virtual meeting of shareholders. The AGM approved all items on the agenda.

FLSmidth has appointed Mikko Tepponen as its new chief digital officer (CDO) to accelerate both the digital transformation of its own business and also its portfolio of digital offerings aimed at optimising customer operations in the mining and cement industries.

Haver & Boecker Niagara, Haver & Boecker’s new mineral processing entity, has appointed Fabio Marroni as the brand's general manager in Mexico as part of plans to expand service and support to customers.

A premium Terex Finlay quarrying plant solution is playing a leading role in Argentinian building materials company Horcrisa SA’s aggregates production.

Stefan Widing’s first months as Sandvik president and CEO have been eventful. The new coronavirus is affecting the whole community and Sandvik, which operates a highly successful Mining & Rock Technology business division, is fully focused on adapting its operations to the new conditions. In the Q&A below, Widing explains why he is convinced that collaboration and hard work will successfully get the company through the pandemic

In his blog below, Mohamed Belkoudry, of Ciments du Maroc, gives a first-hand account of how upcycling can help protect the spread of COVID-19 on a quarry site

Volvo Penta launched its first Stage V-compliant engine for mobile gensets, the D16, in March 2019

US aggregate production was up 3% year-on-year to 464 million tonnes in the first quarter of this year according to the latest survey from USGS.

Production-for-consumption increased in 31 of the 41 U.S. states estimated in the US Geological Survey’s (USGS) quarterly sample survey by construction aggregates producers.

An estimated 291 million tonnes of crushed stone was produced and shipped for consumption in the US in the first quarter of 2020 ... a small increase compared with that of the same period of 2019.

A Finnish construction engineering company is said to have achieved the impressive feat of crushing 200 tonnes of asphalt in just one hour.

Earlier this year, Veljekset Paupek, based in Tornio, Finland, leased a Metso Lokotrack LT200HP cone crusher from Rotarent to accompany their own Lokotrack LT106 jaw crushing plant to create a two-stage crushing process.

"We were able to crush the entire batch of 10,000 tonnes in just over two weeks," says Ville Takalo, Paupek's technical manager.

Lhoist North America has received permit approval from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to construct an energy efficient lime kiln at its facility in New Braunfels.

Lhoist says the move is driven by the demand for its high purity, high calcium lime products by the construction industry.

SDLG overcame lockdown closure issues to deliver a fleet of wheeled loaders, motor graders and various spare parts to its Kazakhstan dealer.

Holcim Germany is supplying its EcoPact Zero carbon-neutral concrete for the expansion of the nature conservation centre in Bingen, southwestern Germany.

Accurate and efficient payload management systems can save your quarrying business big money, while also helping to resolve weighing disputes and to identify and detect material theft issues.

The national and international raw materials and building materials industry will again meet in Homberg/Nieder-Ofleiden in the state of Hesse in Germany. This is already the 11th time that Europe’s largest basalt quarry, operated by Mitteldeutsche Hartstein-Industrie AG, will be the venue for a unique demo show – steinexpo!