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China's Sinoma International Engineering has started work on Nigeria-based Dangote Group's cement plant in Nigeria's Edo state.

The deal is valued at US$278 million (€246.38 million).

Four, 6,000tonne/day production lines will be set up under the project.

Two of UK-based WCL Quarries’ machines have been given another 2,500 hours of undercarriage life, following a Finning repair and refurb.

The Cat D6T dozer runs at the Griff Quarry in county Warwickshire, while the D6R dozer is used at the Ketley site. The machines are essential to WCL Quarries’ operations and are used to fill in void spaces with inert materials, carry out compaction and leveling duties, as well as to support mixed recycling procedures.

The D6R was originally taken into Finning for

Saudi Aramco (Saudi Arabian Oil Company) has awarded an EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) contract to Canada-based SNC-Lavalin for the asphalt production expansion project at the Ras Tanura refinery.

Local subsidiary Saudi Arabian Kentz will handle the 18-month contract execution, which includes comprehensive engineering and detailed design, procurement, installation, construction and commissioning.

The expansion will increase the 22,000barrels/day asphalt production at Ras Tanura to 42

Mexican cement giant Cemex has posted sales of US$3.2 billion for Q1 2016, an increase of 3% on a like-for-like basis compared to the same quarter of 2015.

The company’s welcome sales rise was said to be due to higher prices of its products, in local currency terms, in most of its operations, as well as higher sales volumes in the US and Europe and AME&A regions.

Cemex’s operating EBITDA increased 12% year-on-year and on a like-for-like basis during the first quarter of 2016 to $583 million. And the

It is predicted that Poland's cement sales will reach 16 million tonnes in 2016, which will represent a 4-5% increase in comparison to 2015.

In 2017, the sales will grow further by 500,000tonnes owing to new road and rail investments implemented in the country.

However, it is emphasised that increased sales will not necessarily mean that the production of cement will also grow, and according to some scenarios, it might even drop. This is because exports of cement are predicted to increase.

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Total sales of cement in South Africa increased by 7.7% year-on-year (y-o-y) to 13 million tonnes in 2015 due to strong demand from the construction industry, according to PPC, a South African cement producer.

The total usage of cement including imports went up by 3.1% y-o-y to 13.8 million tonnes in 2015 and cement sales grew the fastest in the first quarter of 2015 at 15.6% y-o-y.

Cement sales rose by over 7% y-o-y in the third and fourth quarter of 2015 while sales growth in the second quarter was

Ecocem has opened its first bulk import terminal in the UK.

The Irish company partnered with Peel Ports to open the terminal at Runcorn Docks on the Manchester Ship Canal, north-west England.

Ecocem invested £2 million (€2.5 million) in the project.

A further £2 million has been set aside to fund an increase in capacity.

Ecocem produces low-carbon cement at a plant at Dublin Port, Ireland.

The volume of supply of rock and aggregate materials on the Russian domestic market exceeded 25.68 million tonnes in the first quarter of 2016.

Of these 79% accounted for high-endurance rocks (30.8%, granite; 23.9%, gabbro; 3%, diabase); 9.2% for limestone; 6% for gravel, and 2.5% for sandstone.

In the first quarter of 2016, among the main producers of solid rock were Pavlovsk Nerud (1.5 million tonnes) and Granit (1 million tonnes), while in the production of limestone the top spots were taken by the

Metso is launching a new generation of upgrades that it says aim to increase the productivity of old crusher models, while also reducing maintenance costs and bringing equipment into line with enhanced safety practices.

The new upgrades are available for Symons and Nordberg cone crushers, and Superior gyratory crushers. They are offered in packages that are said to be easy to take into use with every kit including clear installation instructions. Alternatively Metso can provide the customer with a field

Global cement and minerals processing expert FLSmidth, and Kleemann, part of Wirtgen Group, have signed a long-term cooperation agreement on supply of cone crushers for mobile applications in the construction industry.

The agreement is said to bring together FLSmidth's technology leadership within cone crushers with Kleemann's position in the mobile crushing in the construction and aggregate industry.

“This alliance is a result of FLSmidth's strategy to cooperate and develop technology in partnership

ACC, part of the Lafarge-Holcim Group, is benefiting from the construction boom in India.

Because of this, the Indian cement manufacturer has expanded the capacity of its factory in Wadi in the south Indian state of Karnataka to 13,000tonnes/day.

The Beumer Group as main EPC contractor has got a repeat order on turnkey, for high-performance belt bucket elevator, type HGBW-HC 1250 x 175.3m. With a distance between centres of 175.3m, this is currently the highest in the world.

ACC’s decision is said

Hitachi Construction Machinery (Europe)/(HCME) has appointed Makoto Yamazawa as its new president and CEO.

He is also the new regional CEO of Hitachi Construction Machinery for Europe, the Middle East, and North, West and Central Africa.

Having graduated in law from Waseda University in Tokyo, he joined Hitachi Construction Machinery in 1983, with his first role as a sales representative for the company’s domestic business. After eight years, he was transferred to HCM’s international division for ten

LiuGong has officially signed a global service and service parts agreement with Cummins, renewing an agreement between the two parties originally constructed in March 2014.

The current version optimises the list of engines and territories covered, as well as the parts supply chain.

The signing ceremony was held at bauma 2016, and the renewal of the agreement, signed by both Luo Guobing, vice president of LiuGong, and Hugh Foden, executive director of Off Highway Engine Business at Cummins, marks an

The Mineral Products Association (MPA) is launching a new publication, Ready-mixed concrete: Essential, Local, Sustainable, highlighting how versatile and vital the material is to the construction industry, why the industry is important and examples of infrastructure projects the industry is currently supporting.

Steve Crompton, chair of the British Ready-Mixed Concrete Association, welcomed its content. “This report shows the industry to be innovative and sustainable delivering a high quality essential

South Africa-based Burgh Plant Hire has become the first customer to place an order for not just one but three of the new Volvo A60H articulated haulers unveiled last week at bauma 2016 in Munich.

“It feels great to be the first customer for the A60H. It’s a good product – a magic machine,” said Stanley van der Burgh, Burgh Plant Hire director.

Van der Burgh already owns a fleet of more than 100 Volvo machines for his company’s coal mining operations – the majority of them articulated haulers – so ha

Tanzania Portland Cement Company (TPCC) achieved a 3% year-on-year net profit rise in 2015 to TZS 56.2 billion (US$ 25.76 million). TPCC's profit grew thanks to a very encouraging 22% increase in sales. Moving forward, demand for cement in Tanzania and the East African region as a whole is expected to rise, as reported in a recent addition of Aggregates Business International.

The Cement Company of Northern Nigeria (CCNN) has reported a healthy NGN 13.04 billion (US$65.49 million) turnover for 2015. The firm’s gross profit was NGN 3.96 billion ($19.86 million) for the year under review. Meanwhile, CCNN's total and non-current assets grew 9% to NGN 17.15 billion ($86.05 million) and 21% to NGN 10.12 billion ($50.77 million) respectively.

A new asphalt plant will be constructed in Kazakhstan’s southern region. The facility will produce 22,000tonnes/year of fine-grained and 7,000tonnes/year of coarse-grained asphalt.

CRH chief executive Albert Manifold was Ireland’s highest paid boss in 2015, according to a poll by Irish newspaper the Sunday Independent.

The building materials giant, whose acquisitions’ spending last year approached €8bn last year, is said to have paid Manifold €5.53 million in 2015.

US-based Astec Inc, an Astec Industries company, celebrated the beginning of the construction of a new manufacturing bay with a groundbreaking ceremony at the Astec manufacturing facility in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

The 2,302m² addition, which is designed for manufacturing equipment used for Astec wood pellet plants and asphalt mixing plants, is expected to create 40-50 new jobs, with around 30 of those jobs starting when the bay begins operating in September 2016.

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