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Xylem, a leading global water technology company, is expanding its pump rental and service portfolio across Europe and South Africa through a multi-million euro investment.

Xylem says the expansion initiative will enable it to better meet the market demand from construction, industry, municipal and mining customers across both regions. In addition, the investment also supports Xylem’s global strategy to help build resilient communities, more prepared to respond to extreme weather events.

The expansi

The third -quarter of 2015 saw Italian natural stone products continue growing on the US market.

This is confirmed by the latest Istat export data analysed by the Marmomacc Observatory.

From January to September, 2015, exports to the USA of hewn, shaped and finished natural stones posted turnover of €336 million (US$364million), up by 29.4% over the same period in 2014.

UK-based Telestack, specialists in the design, manufacture and installation of mobile bulk material handling systems, has appointed Martin Dummigan as its new managing director.

He will be responsible for setting and achieving Telestack’s goals and objectives and will report to Jeff Elliott ,the group vice president aggregates & mining, and joins Telestack from Terex where he has had various roles in his ten-year tenure. His last role saw him serve as vice president, China Operations and Business Initiat

Rising demand for used construction equipment has created exciting opportunities for buyers and sellers alike. Guy Woodford reports.

IronPlanet, the world’s leading auction marketplace for the buying and selling of used heavy equipment and trucks, says it has seen a significant rise in its European activity during 2015 – a pattern that is set to continue throughout the rest of the year and into 2016.
“The strongest markets in Europe are still Germany, the United Kingdom – which is flying at the moment

FLSmidth has been awarded a contract for process and quality optimisation of 17 cement plants recently acquired by the CRH Group, based in Dublin, Ireland using FLSmidth's ECS/ProcessExpert and QCX/BlendExpert products.

FLSmidth's ECS/ProcessExpert system stabilises the process of the plant, optimises the production, manages and corrects process disruptions and minimises wear on plant equipment, all to ensure optimum plant performance.

By improving equipment availability and utilisation, the system he

Fergus Ewing MSP, Scotland’s Minister for Business, Energy and Tourism, has opened a new asphalt plant at Daviot quarry near Inverness, Scotland, which represents a £2.2 million investment in the area by Breedon Aggregates, Scotland’s leading independent building materials company.

Breedon’s new state-of-the-art Marini plant will be capable of producing up to 180tonnes of asphalt per hour, substantially more than the previous plant on the site, and it also has a significantly larger hot storage facility

The Mineral Products Association (MPA) has published its 2015 Sustainable Development (SD) Report, covering the year 2014.

The SD Report, which reiterates the mineral products industry’s commitment to quality reporting of evidence based sustainability data to increase transparency, sets out the organisation’s priorities: a continued dedication to improving health and safety, the supply of sustainable products, a reduction in CO2 emissions from production and support for conserving the natural environmen

In the Bavarian town of Lauterhofen, southern Germany, Hermann Trollius has been processing limestone and dolomite for three generations. Aside from traditional marketing, the company is now taking unconventional approaches. In order to conserve resources efficiently, Trollius is now for the first time making use of the leftovers of washing crushed dolomite. Using a Sennebogen material handler, the viscous mass is pumped out and then output as fertiliser.

Are the EU Nature Directives effective, efficient, consistent with other EU policies and legislation, still relevant and of added value?

These are the questions which the European Commission is tackling with the Natura 2000 Fitness Check.

In a precedent article of Aggregates Business Europe (March-April, 2015) we explained what was at stake for the aggregates industry, and how the Fitness Check would be done.

The process is now well advanced, and some conclusions may already be drawn, although no

Keeping tight control of your IP and other assets can help in tough conditions says Simon Trahair-Davies, partner at Stephens Scown LLP.

These are challenging times for many in the mining and minerals industries. With commodity prices on a long downward trend, the pressure has risen for operators.

Excavators and wheeled loaders are the bread and butter of quarry loading operations, carrying out a variety of operations.

For example, two Hitachi ZX350LCH-3Gs, recently acquired by Logistics Support Services (LSS), operate at the Arigu Rock Quarry, near Tamale in northern Ghana, excavating granite materials for use in road construction and concrete works.

The quarry, with a lifespan of over 50 years, supplies aggregates to customers such as Brazilian companies Queiroz Galvão and Andrade Gutierrez,

A requirement to make the best use of all extracted material, along with tougher aggregates specifications, is seeing an increase in the use of washing equipment.

The latest technology from manufacturers also looks to minimise the impact on energy and water consumption while offering quarry operators the opportunity to produce quality sand.

In Germany, mobility was the key when Anton Klee of Bad Beisig, which overlooks the River Rhine some 35km south-east of Bonn, was looking for a washing plant.

A German quarry is benefiting from the use of one particular innovative plant automation system, while a variety of state-of-the-art plant automation software is delivering huge benefits to quarry and aggregates sector professionals. Guy Woodford reports.

Schnorpfeil operates one of Germany’s most modern quarries in Treis-Karden on the River Mosel. Mosel graywacke, used, among other things, as a road construction material, is quarried there. Using a Siemens’ Simatic Mobile Panel operated by WLAN, the Tre

Service packages for equipment from aggregates industry suppliers are now a big part of their business and although they come at a cost, they can provide long-term savings.

For example, Metso says: “Your profitability and cash flow depend on smooth-running production with minimal downtime and predictable costs. When equipment fails unexpectedly, production time is lost and there is the added unexpected cost of spare parts and repair work.

Cartoon figures Norman, the loveable walking disaster, and Monty, his long suffering boss, are back on the ‘big screen’, in the latest Cemex UK health and safety video, Step In...Save a Life! For the first time in the building materials industry, the video involves cartoon characters interacting with real live colleagues.

Rising demand for used construction equipment has created exciting opportunities for buyers and sellers alike. Guy Woodford reports. IronPlanet, the world’s leading auction marketplace for the buying and selling of used heavy equipment and trucks, says it has seen a significant rise in its European activity during 2015 – a pattern that is set to continue throughout the rest of the year and into 2016.

Rising demand for used construction equipment has created exciting opportunities for buyers and sellers alike. Guy Woodford reports. IronPlanet, the world’s leading auction marketplace for the buying and selling of used heavy equipment and trucks, says it has seen a significant rise in its European activity during 2015 – a pattern that is set to continue throughout the rest of the year and into 2016.

Not everyone would be happy to come across a Dingy Footman on a dark night, but in a recent survey of moths by Butterfly Conservation at Southam Quarry, in county Warwickshire, UK, a lepidopterist was delighted to see one.

This moth and, more importantly, the Pammene Suspectana are just two of 120 species surveyed at the site, making Southam Quarry one of the most important sites in the Midlands for both moths and butterflies.

A ‘first’ for Warwickshire and the rarest moth spotted at the site so far

A new diesel-electric-driven Metso Lokotrack LT330D has been received enthusiastically by Finnish crushing contractors.

Hämeen Moreenijaloste is one of the many crushing firms across Finland that have purchased the LT330D.

The 2014-launched Lokotrack model, which uses a cone crusher and a full three-deck screen, was used as the crusher for a 40,000tonne aggregate contract project carried out by Moreenijaloste on behalf of Etelä-Suomen Kiviaineskauppa in the Pennala logistics area in Orimattila, southe

A family-run business in eastern England is reaping the efficiency and production benefits of investing in the latest washing solution technology.

Peterborough-based PJ Thory has joined forces with Aggregate Processing Solutions (APS) to introduce the latest high-performance CDE washing system to its business operations.

Comprising of a M2500 and an AggMax 83R, the system is already proving its worth, processing 1,000 tonnes/day of concrete aggregates at sizes 10mm, 20mm and 40mm, as well as concrete