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Major UK national plant hire company L Lynch Plant Hire & Haulage has invested £57 million with Finning UK & Ireland over the last two years as part of its innovation focus. The strategic move has added 305 new Cat machines to its fleet, complete with a full range of machine technology packages and specialist operator training. These advancements will bring many benefits to the firm's customers and projects.

Major independent UK construction aggregates trading group GRS is riding out numerous British market challenges while seeking new growth opportunities, including optimism around rising demand for secondary materials. Guy Woodford caught up with Douglas Galbraith, Managing Director of Maen Karne, GRS's southwest [England] subsidiary, to hear more about the group's growth plans

Thousands of tonnes of waste ceramics from one of the UK’s largest ceramic tile manufacturers will be recycled in order to make cement as part of a new initiative from Aggregate Industries.

Sustainable technology firm Recycl8 has recently appointed its first graduate engineer. Daniel Wisely takes up the role at a crucial stage in the Aberdeenshire-based company's journey to market.

MULTIFORCE BK T91 is the first industrial rubber-track pattern made by BKT, the leading multinational Off-Highway tire manufacturer, and designed for material handling applications.

Scott Bros is working with researchers at Teesside University to scale up and commercialise a prototype brick that it has successfully engineered from recycled waste clay.

Cemex Ventures, Cemex's corporate venture capital (CVC) and open innovation unit, is investing in Vizcab, a French startup whose digital platform enables different developers and architecture, engineering & construction (AEC) stakeholders to assess and work towards reducing CO2 emissions across the construction value chain.

Cemex says it will soon obtain Type III Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) certificates for the cements it produces across its European network of cement plants.

Finlay, a pioneering force in the mobile crushing and screening industry, celebrated 65 years of excellence and innovation at an anniversary event at Tyrone Farming Society grounds on Friday, 17th November. The event brought together almost 600 team members from across its four Omagh sites who have contributed to Finlay's global success.

Rokbak Regional Sales Manager Kevin Clark has worked with trucks for over four decades. With a large region to cover in the USA, he discusses increasing Rokbak hauler market share and the positive response to the trucks since the Volvo Group acquisition and the rebrand in 2021.

In response to demand for more user-friendly telematics technology on quarry machinery, Finning has upgraded Cat customers to a new software solution that delivers insights into fuel use and operational efficiency.

The Mineral Products Association (MPA) is deeply disappointed by the lack of commitment to a UK Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) in today's Autumn Statement. This missed opportunity should be urgently followed by the publication of the promised consultation response announcing the introduction of a CBAM, says the Association.

Breedon Group (Breedon), a leading vertically integrated construction materials group in Great Britain and Ireland, delivered a strong performance to 31 October 2023 and remains on course for a successful full-year 2023

CRH has agreed to sell its European lime operations to buy-and-build building materials group SigmaRoc for US$1.1 billion, subject to customary conditions and regulatory approvals.

Kleemann machines are helping construct the 48.5 km-long 'Amvrakia Odos' highway in Amphilochia on the Greek mainland.

CRH has agreed to pay US$2.1bn for a portfolio of Martin Marietta Materials' Texas, USA, cement and ready-mixed concrete assets.

Appointed chairman of South Africa’s leading surface mining industry association, ASPASA, at the beginning of 2022, Collin Ramukhubathi is a firm believer in collaboration and lives by the ‘strength in numbers’ mantra. Working with other industry stakeholders, he seeks to champion the interests of small-scale miners in South Africa

CRH Group sales for the nine months ended 30 September 2023 amounted to US$26.3 billion, an increase of 8% compared with the corresponding period in 2022, or 3% ahead on a like-for-like basis. The positive momentum experienced by the Irish global building materials giant in the first half of the year continued into the third quarter, underpinned by strong commercial progress and positive underlying demand across key end-use markets.

Aggregate Industries, a leading UK construction and building materials industry player, has appointed Kaziwe Kaulule as Group Strategy and Commercial Growth Director.