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Hitachi Construction Machinery Europe (HCME) plans to move its production and assembly activities currently taking place in Oosterhout, the Netherlands, to the company's existing production site in Amsterdam.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Cemex-Tec Award 2020 is extending its call for applications to its 10th edition until 30 June 2020, to allow more projects to join and inspire people to be part of one of the most significant entrepreneurial communities worldwide.

Chinese building materials heavyweight CNBM (China National Building Material Co.) says an indirectly controlled new materials subsidiary of the company has signed an agreement with Anhui Non-Mining, Chizhou Traffic Investment, Chizhou Jinqiao Investment and Chizhou Construction Investment to form a joint venture in the Guichi district of Chizhou, a city in the south of Anhui province, eastern China.

SOMEVAM, a subsidiary of the Tunisia-based Sebri Group, has been operating quarries servicing the construction market in Tunisia since 2001. To diversify its operations, the company decided to invest in the production of specialist industrial sands for the glass industry in North Africa, Asia, and Europe. This led to SOMEVAM purchasing a custom-made CDE plant solution.
The new CDE plant now operating at a SOMEVAM quarry is said by the Cookstown, Northern Ireland-headquartered manufacturer to recover 100% of the feed material, transforming it into five in-spec materials of glass, coarse, and foundry sands as well as oversize and ultra-fines, all ready for sale straight from the belts.

The flexible CDE solution can also be tailored for other cut points in line with different market specifications.

Leading UK construction and infrastructure company Aggregate Industries has completed all major works on one of Britain’s largest infrastructure projects - Highways England’s A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Improvement Scheme.

Mexican building materials giant CEMEX has made some senior-level company changes.

Jose Antonio Gonzalez, currently executive vice president of Finance and Administration, has been appointed executive vice president of Strategic Planning and Business Development.

Maher Al-Haffar, presently executive vice president of Investor Relations, Corporate Communications and Public Affairs, has been appointed executive vice president of Finance and Administration.

Investor Relations will be integrated into Finance.

Millions of euros are being wasted by the aggregates industry every year because the conveyor belts they are using are wearing out much faster than they should be doing. The biggest single cause is that the rubber is of insufficient quality and provides inadequate resistance to the abrasive actions of the materials it is carrying. But there is more to it than that.

Auction house Ritchie Bros sold 10,700 items of heavy equipment with a value of more than CAN$184 million (US$131 million) at its recent online-only event, which was hosted from 11-15 May in Edmonton.

The company has temporarily converted to online bidding only to maintain the safety of its customers and employees during the coronavirus pandemic.

Doosan Infracore is expanding its China market presence by selling large excavators, including its largest 80-ton excavator, the DX800LC, in various regions of the country.

LafargeHolcim is said to have had the strongest result of 101 construction materials companies analysed by Sustainalytics, a leading global provider of ESG (environmental, social and governance risks) and corporate governance research and ratings to investors.

Global aggregates giant LafargeHolcim has announced it is ramping up production to support its customers better and to help the world economy recover as quickly as possible from the coronavirus pandemic.

In a statement, LafargeHolcim CEO Jan Jenisch said: “Building on this commitment, we are proud to join the “Recover Better” movement, launched by the Science Based Targets initiative, the UN Global Compact and the We Mean Business coalition to embed climate action in today’s economic recovery.

The GCCA (Global Cement & Concrete Association) has produced a powerful video showcasing the importance of concrete to the world and our daily existence.

To see the video, called: "Our world is concrete", please click HERE.

The Portland Cement Association (PCA) has announced the winners of the 2019 Chairman's Safety Performance Awards, which recognise safety performance in the manufacturing of portland cement.

The winning plants were presented in a video from the US Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration Assistant Secretary, David Zatezalo.

PCA chairman Tom Beck, says: “Our industry is constantly focused on doing everything possible to assure our employees go home in the same condition as they arrived.”

Nigerian building materials giant Dangote Cement said higher domestic sales fuelled its 3.8% year-on-year first quarter 2020 revenue rise to NGN 249.2bn (US$686.14mn).

Cemex has successfully amended its Facilities Agreement, dated as of July 19, 2017, entered into with several financial institutions.

LafargeHolcim is ramping up its cooperation deal with US-based Solidia Technologies to reduce CO2 across its value chain. The French-Swiss building materials giant's partnership with Solidia, which began in 2013, is formally agreed until 2025, with an option to extend.

Together, the two companies' new technology solutions mean that they now emit up to 30% less CO2 during cement production.

They also capture and store CO2, leading to a 70% carbon reduced concrete.

The Texas Aggregates & Concrete Association (TACA) has chosen Josh Leftwich to succeed David Perkins as president and CEO from 15 June.

TACA chairman Paul Rouse, says: Leftwich's “versatile industry experience will prove invaluable to TACA and its membership as we face the many challenges ahead, most importantly ensuring that Texas has the infrastructure to sustain the needs of a growing state”.

The National Mining Association (NMA) has postponed this year's MINExpo International in Las Vegas until September 2021, as the Covid-19 virus crisis continues to disrupt the economy.

The NMA says it is working with its event partners to event partners to identify and secure the necessary exhibition facilities and hotel accommodations for the event next year.

New dates will be announced once the logistical arrangements have been confirmed, the show's sponsor adds.

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