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The extensive work being carried out by the world’s cement and concrete industry and its leading industry body, the Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA), to cut CO₂ emissions is set out in a newly published report launched at COP28 in Dubai.

During the final evening of the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) Annual Conference in Ft. Lauderdale, two trailblazing figures who revolutionised product segments in the equipment manufacturing industry were inducted into AEM’s Hall of Fame.

Global building materials solutions supplier Cemex has welcomed the introduction of the newly revised standard for concrete, BS 8500, with a two-day Cemex UK Readymix Commercial Conference for key stakeholders across the Cemex UK operation.

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Cemex has published the 30th edition of the Cemex Nature Book Series: The Last Ice. Through inspiring images of majestic frozen landscapes, this milestone edition of Cemex's celebrated Nature Books emphasises the urgent need to protect our polar regions and mitigate climate change.

Continental has successfully enhanced its material handling tyre portfolio with its updated ContiPT18 solid tyre.

Cemex Ventures, Cemex’s corporate venture capital and open innovation unit, has launched the 2023 edition of Cemex Venture’s Leaplab, its intensive acceleration programme for innovative startups. Cemex Ventures Leaplab seeks to connect with and scale up high-potential startup solutions focused on solving critical challenges the construction industry faces.

DEVELON, formerly Doosan Construction Equipment, will showcase three excavators at World of Concrete in Las Vegas, USA, from 23-25 January 2024.

Hanson's proposed purchase of Mick George Limited could result in less choice and higher prices for building contractors, says the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).

UK construction materials group GRS has rebranded and relaunched its specialist contracting business as ISC, creating a platform for expansion in enabling works, earthworks and civil engineering projects nationwide.

A close-up look at driverless hauling, a mobile haul-road dust-suppression water truck from the world's biggest off-highway machine manufacturer, and a top articulated dump truck manufacturer is a big draw at a popular industry exhibition

Resilience is a notable characteristic of the UK and Ireland aggregates and quarrying machinery markets, with much of it on show in 2023. Experts tip it to continue next year as new economic and political factors emerge

Holcim has entered a global strategic partnership with the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to advance its nature strategy based on measurable biodiversity and water targets.

Trelleborg Sealing Solutions has started production at its first-ever manufacturing facility in Vietnam, an advanced 8,000-square-meter facility strategically located in Long Thanh.

Peikko Group Corporation and Bouygues Travaux Publics, a French global player in construction with operations in more than 60 countries, have signed a contract to cooperate and work together in developing and using a Steel Concrete (SC) construction method in Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) and Small Modular Reactor (SMR) building projects.

A newly deployed Terex Washing Systems (TWS) filterpress is improving water treatment and recycling quality at a quarry in North Wales, while other installations and water-treatment products are also catching the eye

ETH Zurich researchers deployed an autonomous excavator, called HEAP, to build a six metre-​high and sixty-​five-metre-long dry-​stone wall. The wall is embedded in a digitally planned and autonomously excavated landscape and park.

Italian companies Tecnoidea and Ma-estro have collaborated on the new W-Portal automated control system for water- and sludge-treatment plants, enabling increased sustainability and cost savings

Under its new evoZero brand, Heidelberg Materials is introducing the world's first carbon-captured net-zero cement to European customers. evoZero achieves its net-zero footprint by applying carbon capture and storage technology at the Heidelberg Materials plant in Brevik, Norway, without compensation from credits generated outside the company's value chain.

Cemex is supplying Vertua lower-carbon concrete to construct Terminal 2 at Puerto Vallarta International Airport, which aims to be one of the most sustainable terminal buildings in Latin America.