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Trimble says the purchase of a complete Trimble GCS900 Grade Control System will now include six months of Trimble Connected Site services at no additional cost if activated by 30 June 2017. The US telematics giant claims that Connected Site services make it even easier for contractors to connect the machine to the office to realise significant cost savings and productivity gains.
The announcement was made at bauma 2016 in Munich, Germany, the world’s leading trade fair for construction machinery, building

Sandvik Construction has launched Crushology - a new web portal to help quarry owners and operators get more from their equipment, boosting operational productivity and economy.
The new Crushology web portal has features including a collection of practical tips, tricks, downloadable guides, articles and films. It contains a wealth of helpful information on many aspects of quarry management, particularly crushing and screening.
Crushology is said to remove uncertainty from process planning, replacing trial

Tough economic conditions across the Asia Pacific (APAC) region have meant difficult times for construction and mining equipment manufacturers.
So says Clement Cheong, Terex Trucks sales and marketing director – Region APAC, but he adds that while a full recovery remains a distant prospect, opportunities for growth do exist.
APAC (Asia Pacific) includes South Korea, and that country has for some years now been a major international economic power, and the twelfth largest economy in the world (eleventh lar

Metso has renewed its exclusive Lokotrack mobile equipment distributor agreement for the United Kingdom with Garriock Bros.

Garriock Bros has been distributing Metso's mobile products in the UK since 2005 when they became the official Scottish distributor and saw their distributorship extended in 2011 to include England and Wales.

"Garriock is a partner offering a world-class sales and support organization throughout the UK; they have invested heavily in facilities, tools and people to ensure that t

Trimble’s new Trimble Loadrite H2250 is a haul truck monitor for rigid body haul trucks used in the aggregates extraction and process industry.
The in-cab display and sensor system is used in combination with InsightHQ cloud reporting and data analysis, a web-based management portal accessible via any browser, including mobile devices. InsightHQ consolidates live, operational information from Trimble Loadrite devices across the site, to provide near real-time productivity and performance reports for extrac

Tough machines are required for tough jobs, and for hauling equipment used for a variety of arduous tasks, this is certainly true. Whether moving rocks, clay or earth, these rugged machines are in constant use, meaning that productivity is a key factor for owners. In Wareham, county Dorset, southern England, near Purbeck’s Jurassic Coast, a fleet of Terex Trucks is helping to uncover some of the world’s richest clay deposits in an area renowned for its dinosaur bones.

A pair of L220 wheeled loaders from Volvo Construction Equipment are proving up to the delicate task of transporting huge blocks of marble for a family quarrying business in the French Pyrenees. Guy Woodford reports
Joseph Laplace was in London recently and was delighted to see the marble decorating the facades of boutiques in Piccadilly as coming from the Arudy quarries in the French Pyrenees, where his family has mined for generations.
The Tokyo showroom of French fashion giant Hermes also boasts marble

The mass production of 3D printed construction and quarrying equipment wear parts is not as far away as you may think. Such a norm could lead to a reduction in manufacturing costs for OEMs, and the greater and quicker availability of wear parts for customers.

The topic of 3D printing of wear parts was among a number that arose during two fascinating round-table discussions between senior Caterpillar executives and trade press representatives during bauma 2016.

George Taylor, Caterpillar VP Marketing &

I always look forward to the Hillhead exhibition in Buxton, county Derbyshire, England. It’s partly the setting: in an attractive working quarry in the middle of the breath taking Peak District. But mainly it’s due to the event attracting all the leading quarrying OEMs and ambitious smaller companies, keen to launch or European market premiere their new and latest equipment models.
Hillhead 2016 (28-30 June) will be true to form and there is product news to whet your appetite for the event inside this iss

FLSmidth has signed an EP (Engineering and Procurement) contract at a value of approximately DKK 255 million (€34.24 million) with the Vietnamese cement producer Tan Thang Cement Joint Stock Company for the supply of main equipment to a greenfield cement plant in Vietnam. The plant will be located in the Nghe An province, approximately 300km south of the capital Hanoi.

The order includes all the main equipment from raw mill grinding to clinker silo, as well as a coal mill installation, civil design,

FLSmidth has signed a contract with Larsen & Toubro for engineering, procurement and supply of equipment for a complete cement production line with a capacity of 3,000 tonnes/day. The plant will be located in Ariyalur, approximately 300km south of Chennai in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. The end client of the project is Tamil Nadu Cement Corporation Limited (TANCEM), a wholly owned undertaking of the Government of Tamil Nadu, with whom Larsen & Toubro Limited has an EPC contract.

The order includes a c

McLanahan Corporation has welcomed Jeff High to the company as global product manager, crushing and screening.
With over 19 years of experience working in the mining and aggregate industries, the company says he brings extensive knowledge of both crushing and screening products to McLanahan.
His previous positions have included responsibilities dealing with the distribution, sales and repair of crushing and screening equipment, as well as sales management, distribution and product development.
In his

Karen Thompson, president of Haver & Boecker Canada, believes quarry operators should act on a number of time-tested tips for ensuring increased screening uptime.
It’s an industry thousands of years old, with the same materials and same uses today as then. Refining and producing aggregate dates to the Roman Empire, where it was used to establish a network of roads and massive aqueducts. While the purpose of aggregates remains relatively unchanged, manufacturers continue to innovate, developing methods of p

BHS-Sonthofen has introduced its new rotor impact mill of type RPMF, a variant of the proven rotor impact mills of type RPM.

The new RPMF machines from the German manufacturer are said to produce even finer fractions, as well as output material with a significantly higher proportion of fine sand. As such, machines of this type are more efficient in producing crushed sand.

The RPMF design is a variant of the rotor impact mills of type RPM, which are known in the industry as ‘sand makers.’ BHS designed

Volvo Construction Equipment is celebrating after its revolutionary Volvo Co-Pilot on-board services display beat stiff competition to win an international accolade.

The Volvo Co-Pilot system beat international innovations and wowed a panel of judges to win ‘most innovative HMI feature’ in the Car HMI Awards 2016 (which, despite the name, aren’t just for cars). Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) was up against stiff competition, beating the likes of Volkswagen to win the top prize.

The in-hous

Hillhead 2016 was getting underway today – with all the quarrying sector’s top names set to attract more than 17,500 visitors over the course of the three-day event.

Demand for the exhibition at Tarmac’s Hillhead Quarry near Buxton, county Derbyshire, England has been buoyant, with every square metre of the 28-30 June show allocated, including a new outdoor area at the southern end of the site and an extended Registration Pavilion.

More than 460 exhibitors were due to be in attendance, with all the

Following the outcome of the EU referendum to leave the EU, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) is calling for an urgent discussion to mitigate the impacts on the engineering sector – which is vital to the UK’s economy.

The IET had published a statement of concern that a vote to leave the EU could result in a number of negative impacts on UK engineering, including exacerbating the UK’s engineering and technology skills shortage by making it more difficult for companies to recruit engineer

China’s largest modern open-pit phosphorus mining operation is relying on a fleet of 40 Volvo articulated haulers to transport the essential element efficiently and safely.

The pace is fast and furious at the Jinning phosphate mine. A procession of Volvo articulated haulers powers up the dusty hill towards the mine entrance. Located near Kunming, Yunnan, the mine nestles amidst the beautiful mountainous region in south-western China. Everywhere, the earth is a deep red hue. At its highest point, the min

Cemex Holdings Philippines (CHP), an indirectly wholly-owned subsidiary of Cemex España, has received pre-effective approval of the registration statement it filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission of the Philippines (the Philippine SEC) relating to a proposed initial public offering of CHP’s common shares (the Offering).

Meanwhile, CHP has also received notice of approval from the Philippine Stock Exchange (the PSE) for the listing of CHP’s shares on the PSE. Subject to obtaining the correspo

Terex Finlay has demonstrated its innovative T-Link Telematics system at Hillhead 2016 (28-30 June 2016) in Buxton, county Derbyshire, England.

The remote monitoring and fleet management system combines the Northern Irish crushing and screening equipment manufacturer’s machines' inbuilt CANbus control system with satellite positioning and telematics software.

From the fleet fundamentals of knowing the hours and location of your machine to sending machine specific alerts and tracking machine productio