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While concrete has been in use for thousands of years, companies worldwide are still finding new speciality mixes to meet specific requirements.

Major players in the industry have state-of-the-art research and development facilities that are able to quickly come up with solutions.

For example, global building materials company Cemex, which is celebrating its 110th anniversary, has recently highlighted a number of technological innovations in its concrete.

In its home country, Cemex Mexico develope

A comprehensive Metso plant solution is said to be enabling India-based ARN Blue Metals to produce more top quality aggregates in less time. Guy Woodford reports. How to grow production to meet greater customer demand while keeping operating costs manageable? It’s a question familiar to quarry operators worldwide.
ARN Blue Metals, a subsidiary of the ARN Group, is an Indian company whose search for the answer to the above led them to a Metso crushing and screening solution.

What is best practice when it comes to estimating and reporting your aggregate reserves? How can your business make sure it has done all it can to get the right assets on the books? Poor estimation or reporting and a good business suddenly looks like a bad bet. Embed best practice in strategic business planning and achieve a managed mineral asset portfolio with no surprises, argues Neil Wells.
International reporting standards provide a common basis for understanding resources and reserves information worl

Central Asia is expected to become one of the centres of global aggregates production during the next few years, due to the recently announced ambitious plans of some of the region’s governments. Eugene Gerden reports.

To date, the majority of Central Asia-based nations’ aggregates needs have been met by imports from China and Russia.

However, due to a significant deterioration of the business environment in the region caused by the decline of oil prices, further imports have become no longer profitab

Telestack was due to stage a number of innovative global product launches at Hillhead 2016.

The AggStack range is a series of value added mobile conveying systems designed to meet the needs of the quarry, aggregate, sand and gravel markets. The comprehensive model series is said to combine the Northern Ireland-headquartered manufacturer’s range of entry-level radial telescopic stackers, radial fixed length stacking conveyors, truck unloaders, hopper feeders and link conveyors with an emphasis on function

Hillhead 2016 was in its third and final day today – with all the quarrying sector’s top names having attracted good crowds despite wet weather.

The exhibition at Tarmac’s Hillhead Quarry near Buxton, county Derbyshire, England has seen numerous product launches and landmark sales announcements from OEMs including Finning-Caterpillar, Sandvik Construction, Terex Finlay, Powerscreen, Terex Washing Systems, Terex Minerals Processing Systems and CDE Global.

Event organisers were hoping to top the 17,50

Finning, Caterpillar’s UK & Ireland dealer, has launched ‘Our Promise’; part of a new customer charter delivered in direct response to customer feedback with regards to consistency, communication and transparency.

Built around the five main customer touch points, including new and used equipment sales, workshop services, field support and parts’ supply, ‘Our Promise’, unveiled at this week’s Hillhead 2016 quarry exhibition near Buxton, England, will make a series of key commitments as part of Finning’s f

The Mineral Products Association (MPA) has launched a ‘Driver’s Handbook’ to promote driver safety at the Hillhead 2016 quarrying exhibition in Buxton, county Derbyshire, England.

The new, comprehensive publication has been developed by members as a tool for drivers to help them understand and manage the risks that they face and can create when driving and operating vehicles for work. It is hoped that it will help them make safer choices about the way they drive and behave around vehicles.

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Innovative in its products and, more recently, in its production methods, Miller UK is a north-east England-based earthmoving attachments manufacturer set to reap the rewards of a shrewd and focused growth strategy. Guy Woodford spoke to the company’s managing director, Mike Askew.

Halfway through a five-year business development plan, Miller UK MD Mike Askew is enjoying how quickly his management team’s change programme is taking effect.

“Ex-colleagues ask what it’s like up here and wondered why I’m

A global leader in bulk material handling technology has announced the introduction of its new Pin Latch Secondary Belt Cleaner, a tungsten carbidetipped secondary cleaner that slides in and out for service without requiring any tools. The design from US firm Martin Engineering features a square, tabbed mainframe with segmented blades connected by a simple pin mechanism, allowing easy access and quick blade replacement by semi-skilled personnel.

The new product’s pin latch design provides adjustable tens

Chicago Pneumatic has launched Red Rock - its toughest ever range of portable air compressors. All models come equipped with what are said to be incredibly durable polyethylene canopies as standard, in addition to being lightweight and astonishingly quick to service, making them ideal for extended periods of use in the most challenging and rugged construction sites globally.
Manu Claes, spokesperson for portable compressors at Chicago Pneumatic, said: “With the Red Rock range, our portable compressors have

Ty-Max screen media from Haver & Boecker is said to maximise uptime on challenging wet or dry screening applications. Ty-Max is poured using open cast technology and permanently hardens when cured to maintain its chemical properties, enabling it to resist wear and tear. The polyurethane also wears exponentially longer than wire cloth and handles direct feed better, maximising productivity by reducing change-outs. Additionally, Ty-Max features an internal wire grid as thick as 1cm to reinforce the screen.

Atlas Copco is launching two multi-use portable compressors featuring its PACE system (Pressure Adjusted through Cognitive Electronics), which enables multiple pressure and flow settings to precisely suit the application need.
The unprecedented versatility of the XAVS 186 means a single compressor, which can be set to operate anywhere between 7 and 14bar, efficiently provides power for jobs that previously would have required multiple machines.
Using the intuitive PACE system, the XATS 186 can be set at i

Haver & Boecker is introducing a three-year leasing option for its Pulse vibration analysis service programme, giving mining and aggregate customers insight to their equipment’s performance.
Haver & Boecker designed the Pulse programme specifically to monitor the health of vibrating screens to ensure optimum screening performance and equipment durability.
The company, which designed the Pulse programme specifically to monitor the health of vibrating screens to ensure optimum screening performance and equi

Hyundai dealer Young Plant, based in Doune, Scotland, has shown the first HX140 L excavator in Europe at Scotplant.
The new Stage IV–compliant hydraulic excavator is said to provide up to 10% better fuel economy and 5% increased productivity versus previous models.
The 14tonne model, powered by a Perkins 1204F Stage IV engine rated at 87kW, achieves a maximum dig depth of 6.73m and maximum digging reach of 9,98m, and is equipped with a standard 0.58m³ capacity bucket.
The HX140 L also features IPC (Intel

Trimble and Rototilt say that excavator operators can now achieve accurate guidance when using a tilt rotator attachment with the Rototilt positioning solution and the Trimble GCS900 Grade Control System.
“We have completed successful tests together with Trimble and are now able to connect the Rototilt positioning solution with the Trimble GCS900 Grade Control System,” says Per Väppling, vice president of marketing and sales, Rototilt Group.
“This allows the operator to integrate the Rototilt tiltrotator

Caterpillar has launched its new 6015B hydraulic shovel, building on the robust and productive 5110B. The 100tonne class shovel has a powerful engine and a large standard bucket and payload capacity of 14.6tonnes.
The 6015B is equipped with a single Cat C27 ACERT engine that provides 606kW of rated power. “As with all hydraulic shovels, the greater the engine power, the greater the digging power and the faster the digging cycles,” says the company. “The 8.1m³ standard bucket, outfitted with Cat C70 hammerl

A new 50,000tonnes/year road sweepings recycling system from CDEnviro is operating at Biffa Waste Services’ treatment facility in Horsham, county West Sussex, southern England.

Biffa, one of the UK’s leading integrated waste management companies, provides collection, recycling, treatment, disposal and technologically driven energy generation services, controls the largest volume of waste in the UK.

It has invested in a CDEnviro road sweepings recycling system, and the solution at Horsham, one of the c

Baioni says the new CentriPod system is designed to meet the growing needs for water clarification and solids dewatering in the extractive industries.
After a long association in the silt and water reclamation processes, the Environment Division of Baioni Crushing Plants, Manvers Engineering, and Mudtech, have agreed a joint venture for the production of the Manvers Pod centrifuge system to be manufactured in the Baioni works in Italy.
The CentriPod system uses the Baioni high-performance BaiDec centrifug

One of two new impact crushers from Kleemann – the Tier 4 final-compliant Mobirex MR 110 ZSi EVO 2 - was shown at World of Asphalt 2016 in Nashville, Tennessee.
The MR 110 ZSi EVO 2 is the slightly smaller version of the MR 130 ZSi EVO 2. EVO 2 is the continuing evolution of the successful EVO Contractor Line, with additional benefits in terms of economy and operational safety. These new impact crushers are said to be differentiated by their size and productivity; the MR 110 ZSi EVO 2 has a crusher inlet o