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Chinese construction equipment giant XCMG and ICBC Indonesia, a leading Chinese-funded financial institution, recently staged a Strategic Cooperation Agreement Signing Ceremony and a Forum for senior officials from China’s enterprises in Indonesia as part of the Chinese government’s Road and Belt initiative.

More than 50 senior executives attended the signing ceremony and forum staged at ICBC Indonesia’s City Tower in Jakarta. The notable attendees included, among others, Wang Liping, Counsellor of Econo

ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions in Germany has a contract from Yamama Saudi Cement Co, one of Saudi Arabia’s biggest cement producers, to build two turnkey cement clinker production lines.

The two lines with an overall capacity of 20,000tonnes/day of cement will be built at a new site around 80km east of the capital Riyadh. The value of the contract is said to be in the “higher three-digit million-euro” range. It is the largest cement contract ever secured by Thyssenkrupp.

Yamama Saudi Cement and T

Leading building materials supplier Cemex UK has handed over Lade Pits, formerly Denge quarry - a unique site equipped with three so-called Sound Mirrors - to the Royal Society for the protection of birds (RSPB). The site in county Kent, England, and its listening devices, which are located next to the existing RSPB Dungeness nature reserve near Lydd, have for many years been an iconic feature on the Kent coast and will now be one of nature’s homes in the region.

Lade Pits is a restored sand and gravel

SaMoTer and Transpotec Logitec will co-host their exhibitions at the Verona exhibition centre from 22-25 February 2017 after an agreement was struck by the two event owners, Veronafiere (SaMoTer) and Fiera Milano.

A triennial international earthmoving and building machinery exhibition, SaMoTer’s last edition in 2014 was held in conjunction with Asphaltica, the event organised in collaboration with Siteb (Italian Bitumen, Asphalt & Roads Association) dedicated to machinery and technologies for road pavi

Italy's antitrust authority has opened an investigation into four cement makers for alleged price fixing and, with the tax police, has searched the offices of the companies, it said in a statement on Thursday.

The companies under investigation are Buzzi Unicem, Cementir Italia, Industria Cementi Giovanni Rossi and Holcim Italia, the watchdog said.

"The case concerns the possibility of an agreement ... to coordinate cement sales price increases," the antitrust authority added.

Holcim Italia, part of

LafargeHolcim plans to raise to raise €3.29 billion (3.5bn Swiss francs) next year selling cement assets around the world as the recently merged Franco-Swiss building-materials group adjusts to tough conditions in important markets like China and India, reports the Wall Street Journal.

The company announced the “portfolio review “ after missing third-quarter sales and earnings expectations as the stronger Swiss franc and lower prices weighed on its first results since its creation through the merger of F

Building materials and construction solutions company Tarmac says it is the first company in the UK to trial a new Econic concrete mixer.

Designed by manufacturer Mercedes-Benz to enhance the driver’s field of vision, particularly on busy urban roads, it features a panoramic windscreen and floor-to-ceiling doors. These allow drivers improved visibility of cyclists particularly if they approach the nearside of the vehicle, a key blind spot.

It also features a low-entry cab, which greatly reduces the

Rapid International’s latest innovation, Trakmix, is a track-mounted, mobile and self-contained, fully weighed high-volume concrete mixing plant. The company says the unit was designed in response to the growing demand for a mobile continuous mixing plant “that provides easy, cost-effective transportation and eliminates the need for special transport permits.”

The Trakmix’s patent-pending features include a controls system that weighs all materials, and a double hopper cement weighing system. Other featu

Topcon Positioning Group has added a rotary-wing unmanned aerial system (UAS) to its mass data collection solutions line for the European market. The Falcon 8, powered by Ascending Technologies, is designed for inspection and monitoring, as well as survey and mapping applications.

“Rotary-wing systems provide the perfect solutions for small-scale sites and projects for which flexibility of take-off and landing or an oblique perspective is required,” says Francois Erceau, vice president of the Topcon GeoP

Siemens is upgrading its weighing technology portfolio to include two complete packages for stand-alone applications.

The weighing terminals Siwarex WT231 for non-automatic scales and Siwarex WT241 for belt scales both combine weighing electronics and touch panel in a single unit.

Due to its extensive diagnostic capability and limit value control, the Siwarex WT231 with integrated WP231 weighing module can be used in industries demanding a high degree of accuracy, while the Siwarex WT241 with integrat

Kobelco Construction Machinery Europe (KCME) says the arrival of its latest Generation 10 specialist earthmoving and construction excavators are available from its growing European Kobelco dealer network.

The SK260LC-10/SK260NLC-10 is the next Kobelco conventional excavator to comply with Stage 4 of the exhaust emissions regulations.

Compared to the previous Generation 9 equivalent model, S-mode (normal work) fuel consumption has decreased by 9%, while Eco-mode sees a 10% reduction, which is further e

Doosan Portable Power’s new range of large Stage IV compliant portable compressors are all based on the same platform and are the first to feature a Doosan airend.

The new platform covers five large Doosan portable compressors, the 9/274, 9/304, 12/254, 17/244 and 21/224 models, offering free air deliveries from 21.5-30m³/minute at operating pressures from 8.6-21bar.

The compressors, powered by the Cummins QSL9 T4F six-cylinder diesel engine, meet the Stage IV regulations without the need for a DPF.

Kohler Engines has specifically developed a new Power Unit line of KDI diesel engines for the power generation market, which has been expanded by adding a new 3.4litre model to the line.

The KDI Power Unit, a plug and play solution, is said to represent “an effective answer for generator manufacturers looking for a complete high-performance drive system which can be easily implemented in their product range, thanks to the availability of a package of standard components and accessories.”

Kohler Engine

Asphalt is widely regarded as the most recycled material in the world. In the United States alone, 73 million tonnes of hot-mix asphalt is recycled every year; Across across the Atlantic Ocean in the UK, one major highways maintenance contractor is more than doing its bit to maintain asphalt’s world-leading recycled material status, as Guy Woodford discovers.

Delivering the road maintenance contracts for 17 of the London boroughs, as well as holding the North-West contract for Transport for London’s (TfL

Liebherr showcased a variety of its new machines for the quarrying sector to more than 1,000 international customers at the firm’s recent Quarry Days event in Saint-Nabor, France.

Customers got the chance to put event featured models to the test, and also visit Liebherr’s production sites for crawler excavators in Colmar.

Among the 20 machines on show at Liebherr Quarry Days was the German manufacturer’s new R 956 crawler excavator, the new PR 726 crawler tractor and the new Liebherr large wheeled loa

Slantsev Cement Plant Cesla in the Leningrad region of Russia, and part of the HeidelbergCement group, plans to upgrade production and continue development of its quarry.

The investments in the project will amount to some RUB 1 billion (€14.45 millionUS$15.38 million).

The plant's range of products includes five kinds of concrete.

Also in the Leningrad region a reinforced concrete products plant has been launched to produce wall slabs, intermediate concrete slabs, beam columns and piles.

The pro

Infravation, a European call for projects, has selected the Biorepavation road recycling project being developed by French company Eiffage as part of an international consortium including Ifsttar; the University of Iowa; the Western Research Institute; Nottingham Transport Engineering Centre, and the Dutch subsidiary of Arizona Chemicals.

The project aims to increase the recycling rate of roads, currently around 40%, to above 50% and even to reach 100%.

Eiffage is thus developing a plant-based asphalt

Shareholdings in France-based road and rail-focused civil engineering company Colas Group's subsidiaries Vietnamese Colas and Indonesian Colas have been acquired by Thai asphalt manufacturer Tipco Asphalt (TASCO) for THB 2.2 billion (€ 57.88 million/US$61.62 million) in its effort to become a leading asphalt provider in Asia Pacific.

Within the next five years, TASCO hopes its sales volume to increase to 6 million tonnes/year comprising of some 4 million tonnes of asphalt and 2 million tonnes of diesel

Chicago Pneumatic, whose product portfolio includes rig mounted breakers, portable compressors, light compaction equipment, generators and handheld hydraulic tools, has chosen GT Trading as its newest authorised dealer in Sweden.

LafargeHolcim, the world’s largest cement company formed by the combination of French firm Lafarge and Swiss peer Holcim, has announced that its sales declined in Q3 2015, as well as the first nine months of this year.