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A Lafarge Tarmac quarry in county Bedfordshire, southern England, boasts the world’s first Terex Washing Systems’ AggreSand 206 modular wash plant combined with a TWS AggreScrub 150. Guy Woodford visited the quarry during a world premiere showcase for new customers and TWS dealers of the two models working in tandem to hear how the dual solution from the Northern Irish firm is helping Lafarge Tarmac meet its customers’ needs.

Having moved two kilometres to its larger Broom South quarry from Broom quarry

A Telestack TS 842, the largest mobile conveyor in Denmark, is at work in the largest gravel pit in the country.

NSI, which is Denmark’s largest producer of sand and gravel, is using the stacker at its gravel pit in Roskilde, close to the capital city of Copenhagen.

The enormous Telestack TS 842 works in conjunction with a mobile crushing plant, a set that is producing road base material for a large number of infrastructure projects in Copenhagen, which is growing rapidly.

The telescopic Telestack

A new Terex Finlay 683 Supertrak is said to be helping a company increase productivity.

Launched just over six months ago by Newlay Concrete, Dewsbury Sand and Gravel is part of the long-established Hargreaves Group GB, who produce a wide range of aggregates for the construction industry as well as decorative aggregates for the commercial market.

The machine has been supplied to the county West Yorkshire company by Finlay Plant Northern, part of the Finlay Group of companies.

Dewsbury Sand and Grav

The European Aggregates Association (UEPG) in its Vision for the European Aggregates Industry has placed excellence in health and safety at the centre of its activities.

The objective is Zero Harm to all industry employees, contractors and sub-contractors and visitors by 2020, and to help achieve this all those in the industry have a part to play, including equipment manufacturers.
Many already incorporate high safety standards on equipment and this is constantly updated as new machines are introduced.

The European Aggregates Association (UEPG) in its Vision for the European Aggregates Industry has placed excellence in health and safety at the centre of its activities.
The objective is Zero Harm to all industry employees, contractors and sub-contractors and visitors by 2020, and to help achieve this all those in the industry have a part to play, including equipment manufacturers.
Many already incorporate high safety standards on equipment and this is constantly updated as new machines are introduced.

Compared to the bleak days of seven years ago, the economic outlook for the the UK and Ireland are now among the best in Europe.

Good news stories from companies in the aggregates, construction and related industries are not hard to find as new opportunities arise.
Businessman Craig Jackson has invested over €670,000 on new machines to enable the business to grow in a new direction, with a Hyundai R220LC-9A crawler excavator; Hyundai HL770-9 wheeled loader alongside a Powerscreen Premiertrak 300R mobile

The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has released a regulatory framework for the use of drones and calls for new regulation to be proposed by December 2015.
Building on the European Commission’s new standards to regulate the operation of drones, which were released last year, the regulatory framework could place Europe at the forefront of drone innovation. Simon Trahair-Davies from Stephens Scown LLP explains more.
Drones, also known as unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) or remotely piloted aircraft sy

At the European Parliament in Strasbourg, UEPG President Arnaud Colson has launched a Vision for the European Aggregates Industry at the UEPG Delegates Assembly.

To construct and maintain hospitals, schools, private homes, roads, railways, water channels, dams and dykes for flood protection, beach refurbishment and coastal protection, Europe needs 2.7 billion tonnes of aggregates each year.
Aggregates are the most used bulk material on the planet, and the question is not whether we need aggregates, but

Weir Minerals Europe’s Tony G. Locke talks to Patrick Smith about the company’s robust targets to grow its business after investing heavily in its European market reach, with attractive emerging geographic markets such as Turkey, North Africa and Kazakhstan offering great potential for the firm’s high-quality range of equipment for the global mining and mineral processing sectors.

The market town of Todmorden made news when residents decided to grow fruit and vegetables in public places, asking people to

Lafarge’s flagship Pitt River Quarry in British Columbia, Canada, is part of a Lafarge North America network, the largest diversified supplier of construction materials in Canada and the United States.

The facility in Pitt Meadows, 50km west of Vancouver, a big market for the granite quarry, is near the banks of the Pitt River. It ships out 1.5-2 million tonnes of aggregate/year, loading river barges or trucks with the prized product.
Reserves at the quarry are expected to last for the next 50 years. Wh

The delivery of the South Korean government’s 2013 announced US$108.6 billion plans to develop road, rail and other transport infrastructure, the country’s staging of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, and some eye-catching commercial construction projects alongside an increase in residential construction, is creating stronger domestic demand for aggregates and construction equipment, writes Guy Woodford.

Terex Materials Processing, a business segment of Terex Corporation, has acquired assets related to the environmental technology product lines of Austrian firm Neuson Ecotec. The acquisition marks further expansion of the Terex Environmental Equipment (TEE) business unit, closely following the purchase of the assets of Continental Biomass Industries (CBI) in April. TEE, part of the Terex Materials Processing segment, has been serving the wood, biomass, and recycling industries since 2011 and has already del

Hope Construction Materials, Britain’s leading independent concrete producer has just completed the supply of almost 12,000m³ of ready-mixed concrete to a new Scottish wind farm being built by renewable energy specialists Community Windpower.

The concrete has provided the foundations for 19 new wind turbines at Aikengall II Community Wind Farm (East of Edinburgh) each of which will stand at 145 metres, among the tallest in the UK.

Hope’s Dunbar and Dalkieth ready-mix plants supplied the bespoke concre

The Conveyor Equipment Manufacturers’ Association (CEMA) has issued a new standard for the ranking of conveyor belt cleaners, a long-awaited publication that provides performance-based guidelines for specifying belt cleaners by establishing a specific formula for determining the level of difficulty in a given application.

The goal of rating the application difficulty is to assist in appropriate cleaner selection, facilitating a suitable choice so both end-user and supplier can be satisfied with the resul

LiuGong has staged the inauguration of its new Global Research and Development Center in Liuzhou, southern China. The inauguration emphasises the internationally renowned Chinese construction equipment manufacturer’s long-term commitment to product innovation and future technology. Yesterday's showpiece event was attended by LiuGong's top executive team along with leading domestic political and international construction equipment manufacturing industry figures including Xue Yiping, vice chairman of China

Volvo Construction Equipment is hosting a Construction Climate Challenge summit in Sweden next week, where leading industry representatives, academics and interested stakeholders will gather to discuss the challenges of achieving sustainable construction.
The Construction Climate Challenge (CCC) initiative promotes sustainability throughout the entire construction industry value chain and provides much-needed funding for environmental research.

The French group VM Matériaux has decided to change its name to Herige.

The new visual identity is to be put into place in the following weeks.

This decision was made in order to clearly distinguish between the group and its building material trading division, which will continue to use the name VM Matériaux.

The group also includes industrial joinery and concrete divisions.

Kenya's weak currency has caused local cement makers to suffer foreign exchange losses in the recent months.

For instance, National Cement Company incurred a KES 160 million (€1.45 million/US$1.64 million) foreign exchange loss due to importation of equipment and inputs in May 2015.

Clinker, coal and spare components were found to be items that really took a toll on local cement makers' importation costs in April and May 2015.

As such, cement producers expect that a price hike of about 10% on cemen

Lafarge Africa has completed and delivered 2,000 houses in Nigeria and it is planning to invest in more mass and low-cost housing projects in the country.

It is estimated that Nigeria has housing shortage of 17 million for middle and low income groups and Lafarge Africa intends to help the government reduce the deficit.

Lafarge Africa has partnered with the federal government to build houses in Ogun state for 1,000 villagers as well as affordable houses in Abuja.

The company also has signed an agr

HeidelbergCement is planning to increase its EBTIDA by 75% to more than €4 billion by 2020.

The company also wants to raise its turnover by one-third to €17 billion.

Acquisitions and share buy-backs are possible, too. As a result, HeidelbergCement is reducing the austerity measures implemented earlier.