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In Iran, Mohammad-Reza Lotfi, deputy head of the Association of Cement Industry Entrepreneurs, is reported as saying that the Iraqi ban on Iranian cement imports has caused much trouble for the industry.

The only solution is to look for new markets, with Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia named as possibilities.

About 7 million tonnes of Iran's cement exports or 60% of cement and clinker exports went to Iraq in 2015.

Meanwhile, Azerbaijan, another big market, has also reduced imports due to i

A number of 688,640 shares in JK Cement have been sold by Templeton Global Investment Trust's Templeton Emerging Markets Small Cap Fund on the National Stock Exchange of India. Each share was priced at INR 579 (€7.65/US$8.65).

RDS Technology’s Loadmaster α50, the enhanced colour touchscreen replacement for the Loadmaster 8kiX, is an on-board weighing system for larger loaders that will be making its world debut at Hillhead 2016.

The company says it is designed to help increase loading efficiency, cut vehicle movements on site and ensure trucks are correctly loaded first time as is the Loadmaster α100 on show.

RDS Technology’s iSOSYNC enables control of the loadout operation and inventory, productivity and traceability manag

With a focus on the entire drive train and beyond, Siemens says it will show at Hillhead why its integrated drive systems, weighing, level and flow solutions bring significant benefits to the industry.

It will also be a focus on maximising safety and security, functions it says are more essential than ever to bulk materials handling operators.

In drive technologies, Siemens will be displaying its Simogear and SIP gear units, and in large drives, showing how converter-fed motors can help leverage energ

Raysut Cement Company (RCC) of Oman has started to use a new silo with storage capacity of 20,000 tonnes at its factory in Salalah.

The silo has three compartments with capacity of 3,000-12,000tonnes each to hold oil well cement, sulphate-resistant cement and ordinary Portland cement.

It also has two units to load bulk cement at rate of 300 tonnes/hour.

The company plans to complete building a new packing plant with 150tonnes/hour capacity at the silo in the fourth quarter of 2016.

Hillhead 2016 will provide a platform for the ranges of portable compressors, generators and mobile lighting systems from Doosan Portable Power.

Alongside the 7/41G Tough Top generator-compressor and the Stage IIIA compliant G100-IIIA generator, the company will be showing the new 12/254 portable compressor for the first time.

The 12/254 is part of a new platform of five large Doosan Stage IV-compliant portable compressors, which also includes the 9/274, 9/304, 17/244 and 21/224 models, offering free

Estonian Betoonimeister, a company, focused on the delivery of high performance ready mixed concrete has reached an agreement to acquire all the assets of TM Betoon, the subsidiary of TMB.

The acquisition is subject to approval by the Competition Authority, and the price of the acquisition is confidential.

The acquisition would facilitate TMB’s target to focus entirely on the manufacture of concrete elements and exit from commercial concrete market.

Betoonimeister said the acquisition would contri

Kobelco Construction Machinery Europe is continuing its European network expansion with the addition of two new French dealers.

Solomat and Agricane have been appointed as authorised Kobelco dealer partners, and help to improve the servicing of Kobelco customers on mainland France and Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean.

Established in 1960, Solomat is a family-run business specialising in construction machinery rental. It has 11 outlets covering central France and the Paris area, and Kobelco says its

Pakistan's cement exports have declined by 18.98% from 6.08 million tonnes between July 2014 and April 2015 to 4.92 million tonnes from July 2015 to April 2016.

Cement sales in April 2016 grew by 7.81% to 3.55 million tonnes from 3.29 million tonnes in April 2015 while cement exports fell by 18.66% year-on-year (y-o-y) from 0.64 million tonnes to 0.52 million tonnes.

Indonesian cement maker Semen Indonesia has named Rizkan Chandra as its new main director to replace Suparni. The appointment runs from 2015 until 2020.

CASE Construction Equipment will showcase 19 different models, including four machines from its new D series excavator range, at Hillhead 2016.

Hillhead (28-30 June, 2016, Hillhead Quarry, Buxton, county Derbyshire, England) will also be the venue for the second qualifying round of the annual Case Rodeo Challenge, an event designed to test the skill and speed of operators throughout Europe, with the best going forward to this year’s final in Paris.

Six machines from the D Series of crawler excavators,

French cement producer Lafarge has launched Le Praktis, its new cement packaging, a bag that can be introduced entirely in the cement mixer without opening it.

Lafarge worked three years with Swedish packaging specialist Billerudkorsnas to develop the bag, which is made of a new type of paper protected by a humidity-resistant covering.

During the blending, the bag is shredded into invisible microfibres that do not alter the cement characteristics.

It is claimed that the new packaging will reduce th

Tesab’s new 700i jaw crusher at Hillhead 2016 is based on the proven 10570 tracked jaw crusher but weighs less; is a more streamlined and can produce up to 400tonnes/hour.

With a two-deck independent pre-screen, production costs are said to be reduced as a sized product can be produced on the side belt while the new and improved step deck vibrating feeders allow a higher throughput tonnage, improved material separation quality and the ability to handle dry, damp or wet material.

Tesab’s 800i jaw crush

The Finnish company Lahti Precision is considering construction of a dry mix mortar plant in the Kabardino-Balkaria Republic, North Caucasus, Russia.

The company has been offered three locations.

The future plant's capacity is planned at 10tonnes/hour, and some 40 new workplaces will be created at the plant.

The products will be in-demand in Kabardino-Balkaria, since the construction of a number of major facilities, including a new hydrometallurgical plant and a polyethylene terephthalate plant, wi

Tesab has appointed Banner Equipment as the new Tesab/Trackstack dealer covering a geographical area from the Scottish Borders down to Aberystwyth in Wales and Kings Lynn in county Norfolk, eastern England.

Banner Equipment, a family-run business based in the North-East of England, has over 35 years’ experience in the construction and quarrying industries.

Its contract crushing and screening operations process over 3.6 million tonnes/year. It also has aggregate recycling/washing operations; earthmovin

The authorised Hitachi dealer in Kazakhstan, Turkuaz Machinery, has supplied a large fleet of Hitachi mining equipment to SSGPO’s (Sokolov-Sarbai Mining Production Association) Kachar iron ore mine.

The open pit in the north of the country, where temperatures vary from +40°C to -46°C, is home to 21 Hitachi EH3500ACII rigid dump trucks, and two EX5500E-6 and five EX3600E-6 ultra-large Hitachi excavators.

With 1.3 billion tonnes of reserves at Kachar, there is enough mining work estimated for at least a

Volvo Construction Equipment’s largest articulated hauler, the new 55tonne capacity A60H, can be seen for the first time in Great Britain at Hillhead 2016.

It has been designed for heavy hauling in severe off-road operations, including quarries, opencast mines and large earthmoving operations.

Volvo CE says it has come a long way from its original 10tonne articulated hauler in 1966, Gravel Charlie,’ and to celebrate this achievement it is presenting the old and new its stand,

The A60H is powered by

PRECAST2016, the UK’s largest precast concrete event, sponsored by Trimble Tekla and Tarmac, was a great success, say the organisers.

Over 60 exhibitors showcased their latest products and services in the industry.

The event included a variety of seminars, live demonstrations, and opportunities to network with industry professionals throughout the day.

Over 400 delegates attended the event, which included up-to-date briefings on key topics including Building Information Modelling (BIM); the propos

In January-March 2016, Kazakhstan enterprises produced over 3.06 million tonnes of concrete.

The figure grew by 1.3%, compared with Q1 2015, and by 29.9%, compared with Q1 2014.

Albert Sigei, the COO of East African Portland Cement, has tendered his resignation from the company, it is reported.

Sigei was the vice president of business support and ready-mix operation at Lafarge's branch in Nigeria.