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The Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction has unveiled its 20 outstanding finalists for the Holcim Awards 2023 competition.

Nanogence, a Swiss-based building material innovation company, has secured funding from a consortium of investors led by CirCap, alongside Planet First Partners and the EIC Fund.

Sustainable technology firm Recycl8 has successfully carried out the first industry pour of its low-carbon sustainable R8 Mix concrete made with recycled materials in partnership with Breedon Group, marking a significant milestone in the Aberdeenshire-based firm's journey to market.

Some years back, Breedon’s Cement Hope Works contacted Quarry Manufacturing and Supplies (QMS) to provide regular servicing, spare parts and aftermarket care for its two large stationary cone crushers. The service's excellence and quality of the QMS wear and consumable parts have recently led to the quarry replacing two crushers with QMS’s B-Series cone crushers.

According to Dodge Construction Network, US construction starts fell 6% in September to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $1.2 trillion. Nonresidential starts lost 4%, residential starts declined 6%, and nonbuilding starts fell 9%.

In the presence of Milena Stoycheva, Bulgaria's Minister of Innovation and Growth, and representatives of Heidelberg Materials and the local community, the start of construction for the pilot carbon capture installation was celebrated on Monday at Heidelberg Materials' plant in Devnya.

Rokbak regional sales manager EMEA Kenny Price discusses increasing the company's hauler sales by 25% and how experience from the factory floor to working with a variety of OEM products at a dealership gives him a unique insight into customer needs.

The world’s asphalt-plant market is increasingly focusing on green and smart-technology solutions, with many major asphalt-plant manufacturers offering eye-catching, cutting-edge products to tempt more sustainability-minded and contract-securing-savvy customers to invest in their solutions

The UK biennial equipment exhibition Hillhead will next take place at Tarmac’s Hillhead Quarry, near Buxton in England in June 2024.

Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) maintained a good sales performance in Q3 2023 while accelerating the industry shift with new solutions to support the electric transformation.

Last week, Ritchie Bros. concluded its Moerdijk Live Xperience in The Netherlands, which attracted more than 3,030 on-site and online bidders from more than 80 countries and several hundreds of additional event attendees. The event's main attraction, held from 10-12 October, was a large equipment auction featuring more than 3,800 items, trucks and other industrial assets.

Heidelberg Materials, via its subsidiary Indocement, has signed an agreement to acquire 100% of the shares in PT Semen Grobogan's integrated cement plant in Central Java, Indonesia. The plant started commercial production in 2022, and with this new investment, Heidelberg Materials has further strengthened its footprint in Indonesia, one of the company's core Asia-Pacific markets.

Fernando A. González, CEO of Cemex, has been elected as the new President of the Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA). The GCCA’s members account for 80% of global cement production capacity outside China and have committed to achieving Net Zero CO2 emissions by 2050.

Heidelberg Materials has opened a new ready-mixed concrete plant in Sutton Courtenay, increasing the company’s footprint and capabilities in the fast-growing Oxfordshire, England market.

Katherine Evans, leader & founder of Bold as Brass, lays out a powerful case for how ESG can spark positive change in the mining and mineral extractives sector

A major crushing and screening bucket and attachments manufacturer has big plans for future development after more than two decades of market success

Maquinza, a leading company in the rental and sale of machinery, has taken delivery of Spain's first DX350LC-7 Narrow Track crawler excavator from Develon, formerly known as Doosan Construction Equipment.

Volvo Construction Equipment says that increasing customer demand for real-time data on machine productivity, health and location in the Middle East has led it to start including the Volvo Co-Pilot hardware for Haul Assist on new articulated haulers in parts of the region.

JCB is building a new factory in North America, creating over 1,500 new jobs over the next five years. The construction of the 720,000 sq ft (67,000m²) factory will begin early next year on a 400-acre site in San Antonio, Texas.

After extensive testing, Caterpillar has completed the in-house validation of Rajant BreadCrumbs, LX5 CA radios, enabling field trials with this Rajant product and Cat MineStar Command for hauling.