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The Financial Express of India has reported sources saying that Indian cement producers including Piramal Group and JSW as well as foreign cement firms such as CRH, Heidelberg Cement and Votorantim Group of Brazil are likely to have submitted expressions of interest (EoI) to bid for Lafarge India's assets.

Private equity funds including Blackstone and KKR are also likely to be among list of bidders to acquire Lafarge India's 10.75 million tonne capacity business, reports the online business newspaper. Th

Sandvik Mining and Schenck Process have signed a global partnership to provide increased screen processing and cone crusher capacity.

“The partnership provides increased crushing circuit productivity for Schenck Process double and single deck high capacity multi-slope screens and Sandvik high productivity cone crushers," Sandvik, says.

"It also enables a single service provider approach to support customers throughout the entire plant life cycle.”

The new co-operation between the two companies bri

Breedon Aggregates has posted record results for 2015, but senior company figures say an “exciting new era” for the company in 2016 is accompanied by concern that the EU referendum could have an adverse effect on growth, with “increasing concern” also apparent over global growth being hit by the Chinese economy.

A leading UK-based producer of aggregates, asphalt and ready-mixed concrete for builders, Breedon said its pre-tax profits in the year to December 31 rose 46.4% to £31.3 million (€40.4 million) w

Volvo Construction Equipment claims rigorous side-by-side comparison tests have confirmed customer feedback that the Volvo EC220E excavator offers the best fuel efficiency and operator comfort in its weight class – better even than a competitor hybrid.

Since the launch of the Volvo EC220E in February 2015, Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) says it has received widespread praise from customers about the excavator’s low fuel consumption and comfortable cab. Many customers have, says Volvo CE, even

Road constructors, facing a lack of new projects in home markets, have shown an increasing tendency to take part in tenders for new roadbuilding worldwide. For this reason there has been the preference to use easily transportable, tyre-mounted plants, capable of fitting into the most difficult of logistic situations, says Marini, which has introduced the new XPRESS 2500.

The batch plant with a production rate up to 200tonnes/hour, is tyre-mounted for easy transfer, and within the road transport limits (a

Italian testing equipment company Controls has moved its headquarters after 30 years at its historic base at Cernusco sul Naviglio, Milan, which can no longer meet the growing productive needs of the company. The company, which has seven branches and more than 4,000 products for the construction industry in three business areas, has a new plant in Liscate, a small town in a logistically strategic position, just 17km from the centre of Milan and at the intersection of two major new motorway networks. Among i

Metso has developed a new maintenance platform that increases safety when changing wear parts in jaw crushers. It is available on all Metso C Series jaw crushers.

The platforms consist of hand rails which are also used for lifting the platform, sturdy work platforms and related control mechanisms, enabling them to be precisely placed at the desired height of the jaw opening.

The platform, constructed of aluminium, is said to be easy enough for one person to move.

“With a small investment, Metso’s

Drilling rig maintenance and customisation specialist Euro Repair is expanding its services by taking its engineers into the field. The Mansfield, county Nottinghamshire, England-based company is launching a new mobile repair service for drilling rigs, plant and machinery, that will work across the country. “The mobile service is a significant investment, but means that we can better meet the needs of our clients,” says Jeremy Moore, the company’s managing director.
“Downtime for a rig or other plant machi

McCloskey International has introduced the Fuel Hub product line of secure, environmentally friendly, transportable bunded tanks that are said to allow for fast, efficient refuelling at work sites around the world.
They are available in eight sizes with capacities ranging from 450litres-10,000litres.
“Along with features to suit the needs of each project, the durable galvanised base frame and hatch plates ensure the McCloskey Fuel Hub is suited for rugged conditions, whether on construction sites, in quar

A new marketing agreement has been agreed between Redbird and Caterpillar in the Europe, Africa and Middle East region. Redbird, established in 2013, is a pioneer in the acquisition and analysis of aerial data collected by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones.

The company’s ability to both collect drone data and provide analysis of that data using cloud-based, proprietary algorithms offers significant benefits for customers.

Caterpillar says that developing relationships with a broad variety of

Stelex Construction Equipment, supplier of the original Hercules range of heavy duty trommels, has launched the new HT182C heavy-duty trommel as part of its standard product range.

The HT182C uses a chain drive system for the barrel rotation in place of the standard live drive system that was introduced in 2005.

The live drive system has been a huge success and extremely reliable but the reduced cost of the chain drive will hopefully make it an attractive alternative to customers on a tighter budget

Sandvik Construction is adding geoSURE, a rig-integrated, high precision, online rock mass analysis and visualisation system, to its existing offering for tunnelling process optimisation.

The new option is fully integrated to the iSURE tunnelling project management software, providing rock mass information and a view inside the drilled rock.

Designed to be used with Sandvik underground construction drills rigs, geoSURE delivers real-time onboard analysis of the rock mass, which is said to provide many

Aggregates Institute’s Manufactured Sand workshop

Aggregates Institute’s forthcoming workshop on manufactured sand is ideal for forward-thinking, innovative quarry operators and contractors. Below, workshop presenters Barry Hudson and Hugo Pettingell discuss its key content.

There is natural sand, there is crusher dust, and in-between there is ‘manufactured sand’ of varying, but almost always dire, effectiveness. Concrete producers want the first, aggregate producers want to dispose of large quantitie

In addition to increased capacity and big fuel savings, Norwegian crushing contractor Finsveen Maskin appreciates the easy transportability of Metso’s Lokotrack LT220D cone plant.

The revolutionary two-in-one crushing and screening plant has enjoyed worldwide sales success since its Las Vegas, US launch in early 2014. After logging more than 2,500 equipment operating hours, Finsveen Maskin says it knows with certainty that the unit really does boost production and significantly lowers fuel costs – to th

Quarrying company Italcave has boosted productivity thanks to the addition of a Volvo A40F-FS full suspension articulated hauler.

The Volvo A40F-FS offers enhanced stability and high power making it ideal for use on challenging terrain.

Set between the city of Milan and the border of Switzerland is Cucciago, a village with a population of about 3,000. Dominating its five square kilometres is a 350,000m² quarry – the largest in the province. Boasting an ancient history, its geology can be traced to th

The grand opening of an ambitious public access stairway overlooking restoration work some 50metres above ENCI quarry in Maastricht, The Netherlands has brought the trans-European RESTORE project to a successful conclusion.

It follows three years and close collaborative working between seven partners across four countries in north-west Europe (U.K., Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany). Funded by the European Regional Development Fund through the INTERREG IVB NWE programme, RESTORE has worked to promote

The UK-based Quarries Partnership Team is working together to tackle quarrying and associated mineral processing workplace dust. Marie Warburton, Respiratory Interventions Team, Health and Chemicals Unit, Engagement & Strategic Interventions Directorate, Health and Safety Executive reports on its work

Silica is a natural mineral present in varying amounts in materials such as sand, sandstone and granite. When these materials are crushed or abraded during quarrying and associated mineral processing activi

Big transport infrastructure spending is creating exciting possibilities for Eastern Europe-based aggregate suppliers and quarry operators, many of whom are benefiting from more efficient production. But the Russian aggregates market remains severely depressed. Guy Woodford and Eugene Gerden report.

There’s big money being poured into Eastern European transport infrastructure, with aggregate suppliers and quarry-based equipment manufacturers set to benefit.

A huge area geographically, comprising more

Level measuring specialists Hycontrol have designed and installed a multi-point bitumen level measuring and overfill protection system for Aggregate Industries at their Express Asphalt plant at Botley, near Southampton, England.

The system, utilising microwave and capacitive technologies, has been fitted to four 36.5tonne tanks containing hot bitumen, replacing the existing ‘cat and mouse’ level system. This out-of-date mechanical arrangement, based on pulleys and counterweights, was becoming increasingl

Hugo Pettingell, of the Aggregates Institute, discusses how savvy use of equipment can help quarrying professionals cater for changing aggregate market demand.

The market for traditional quarry products in Western Europe has changed significantly over the last couple of decades, a trend that is set to continue with the decline of large infrastructure projects. A contributory factor is the more frequent use of recycled products for non-critical purposes, which means that the once-obligatory supply of fill