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Continental is manufacturing hoses needed in Bergamo and the rest of the Lombardy region’s medical sector at its site in Daverio.

The City of Amarillo announced this week that has rescinded its COVID-19 Communicable Disease Control Order against Howell Sand Company Inc.

According to official statements, city officials and the owners of Howell Sand have been able to resolve the issues that resulted in the closure action last week.

The shut-down in Texas occurred when the Amarillo Public Health Department asked Howell Sand to close down its operations after several COVID-19 cases were discovered in the area.

Productivity, fuel efficiency and service life all depend on having the right fit, says Volvo CE, and it has decided to put out a guide to choosing the best bucket for differing applications.

Kiverco has bolstered its team with a number of key appointments to support business growth in the UK and increasing demand for its recycling solutions in Europe and around the world.

Guy Woodford visited the European headquarters of MAJOR, a leading global manufacturer of high-performance wire screening media, to learn more about the North American firm’s ambitious expansion plans for the key regional market. Meanwhile, a Keestrack plant solution is proving a big energy cost saver for a major Estonian quarrying firm

Lafarge Africa has donated personal protective equipment (PPE) as well as three facilities that can be turned into quarantine centres to help Nigeria's fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

In response to the Scottish Government’s call for construction support on critical project work, Aggregate Industries is proudly donating materials for the construction of the new emergency field hospital in Glasgow.

SigmaRoc built on strong second half of 2019 trading by performing ahead of budget and analyst estimates in the first quarter of 2020, despite significant weather disruption and flooding across the UK and the Channel Islands, and the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

AMI (Athabasca Minerals Inc) has opened its Coffey Lake Public Pit site in Alberta and made its first deliveries of aggregates only a year after getting the official go-ahead.

According to AMI chief executive officer Robert Beekhuizen: “This is a remarkable accomplishment in today’s regulatory environment.”

As ARI has reported in recent months, the AMI team  been busy putting through applications, obtaining approvals, and clearing and constructing the Coffey Lake site in the past 12 months.

An acoustical consulting firm is going to be brought in to review the plan by Harold MacQuinn Inc and Freshwater Stone to muffle noise at MacQuinn’s granite quarry in the village of Hall Quarry.

The site is based on Mount Desert Island in Hancock County, Maine. This is the largest island off the coast of Maine.

The two companies have applied for a licence for Freshwater to operate the one-acre quarry. Their attorney, Ed Bearor, has said that they would agree to pay up to $2,500 for an expert sound review.

The World Cement Association says that several of its Chinese members have offered to mobilise their resources to donate face masks to WCA members who are finding it difficult to secure supplies locally.

LiuGong, the Liuzhou, China-headquartered global off-highway machine maker, has created a new international team to develop its quarry and aggregates business.

The Hitachi Construction Machinery Group plans to gradually adjust production in four of its seven Japanese plants from April to May for integrated production, assembly and painting.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has determined that the operators of a Colorado marble quarry violated the Clean Water Act when they diverted a tributary of the Crystal River to make way for a mining road.

In the fall of 2018, Colorado Stone Quarries, which operates Yule Quarry just outside the town of Marble Colorado, diverted Yule Creek from its natural channel.

According to a report on the local Post Independent website, operators piled the original streambed with fill material, including marble blocks.

Hitachi has introduced a range of new high-performance hydraulic breakers that are suitable for the full range of Hitachi ZX excavators from ZX10 up to ZX890. Quarry managers will find the new units are well-suited to breaking drilling and blasting operations.

The new breakers can be fitted and maintained by Hitachi factory-trained engineers which the company says ensures maximum productivity, high performance and low total cost of ownership.

Terex Finlay has launched its new IC compact impact crusher plant range.

Rapid International has recently commissioned one of its new Rapidmix 400CW mobile continuous concrete mixing plants (pugmills) for Thalle Construction in Leonard, Texas.

Excavators are versatile machines and there is no one-size-fits all bucket for every job, according to Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE).

New Volvo Construction Equipment customer CV Putra Kartini bought an EC200D excavator to support its sand quarry operations in Lumajang, East Java, Indonesia. The new excavator has cut fuel consumption by a quarter, equating to a welcome reduction in the ambitious firm’s production cost.

CEMEX has announced that it is resuming operations in Mexico to support the development and economy of the country during the COVID-19 contingency.