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In India, Zuari Cements is looking to widen its presence by expanding its footprint in the west and north.
By end-2015, the company intends to add 1 million tonnes to its existing 6 million-tonne capacity.
Zuari Cements is a subsidiary of the world's fifth biggest cement maker, Italcementi Group.

LiuGong’s Global Construction Machinery Technology Forum was being held today in the Chinese manufacturing giant's newly opened Global Research & Development Centre in Liuzhou, southern China. Around 300 distinguished guests from government officials, industry and association leaders, experts and scholars, internationally renowned component manufacturers, leading dealers and customers of LiuGong and trade media gathered to participate in the Forum. The event showcased LiuGong's great innovation energy and g

Terex Materials Processing, a business segment of Terex Corporation, has acquired the assets related to the Environmental Technology product lines of Austrian company Neuson Ecotec.

The company says 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

CDE Global says it has been ranked one of the fastest growing companies in the UK by the Investec MidMarket 100 for the second time.
This bi-annual ranking report is made up of the fastest-growing private companies in the UK with a minimum turnover of £10 million (€14 million).
The global supplier of washing equipment for quarries and mines is one of six companies from Northern Ireland on the list.
Brendan McGurgan, managing director at CDE Global, says: “We are delighted to have made the Investec Mid-

The Spanish marble producer Marmoles Bempe, which is made up of several marble producing companies, has filed for administration at the Mercantile Court of Alicante (Spain). It is reported that the court has given the go-ahead to the creditors' note plan put in place by not only this company but also Grupo Industrial Bempe, Canteras Alicantinas and Sociedad de Bienes Hermanos Torregrosa.

HeidelbergCement says it will return more cash to shareholders and be "disciplined" about acquisitions, having chosen to stay out of a merger between rivals Holcim and Lafarge that is creating the biggest single cement producer in the industry, Reuters news agency reports. Germany-based HeidelbergCement, which has met significant debt reduction and other financial targets it set in 2009, said on Wednesday it would focus on raising its dividend, expanding the company, cutting debt further and possibly buying

The Mineral Products Association Restoration Guarantee Fund (MPARGF) was relaunched at the MPA’s 6th Members’ General Assembly yesterday. This Fund is a valuable UK aggregates, cement and concrete industry pledge which ensures that restoration of a UK quarry site can still be paid for and completed, if an operator becomes financially insolvent. The MPARGF is endorsed by the British government through the National Planning Policy Framework.

To meet rising demand, reduce unit cost and promote localisation, Caterpillar and its southern African dealer, Barloworld Power, have established the first ever assembly plant for Cat generators in South Africa. Located in Boksburg, Johannesburg, the facility will initially assemble the CFat i6 and 400 series generator sets ranging from 400kVA to 1,000kVA, according to Imrad Amod, Barloworld Power assembly manager. The facility is an upgraded existing workshop previously used as a customised solutions centr

The 2nd Plantworx Construction Machinery Show, which ran for three days, at the show’s new Bruntingthorpe Proving Ground home in County Leicestershire, England, has reported a record footfall of more than 14,000 visitors, up 18% on the inaugural 2013 event.
The show, which spanned 135,000m³ and was home to 344 exhibitors, was deemed a huge success.
Rob Oliver chief executive of the Construction Equipment Association (CEA), which promotes the event, said: “The aerial photos of the event are stunning, and u

The Polish Association of Ready-Mixed Concrete Producers (SPBT) estimates that Poland's production of ready-mixed concrete will reach 20 million m³ in 2015; in 2016 it will grow to 21.4 million m³, and in 2017 it will increase to 23.3 million m³, similar to the record-breaking year of 2011.

In 2014, the production of ready-mixed concrete rose by 7%, when compared to the year before, and amounted to almost 19.2 million m³.

Nigeria-based cement maker Lafarge Africa has been named the Best Complying Company of the Year 2014.

The company won the award for its undivided commitment towards complying with the requirements of the Companies and Allied Matters Act and its ability to operate with the highest levels of ethics.

Lafarge Africa received the award from Nigeria's Corporate Affairs Commission.

Moroccan cement company Ciments du Maroc (Italcementi), which has three plants in Morocco, intends to open a grinding centre in the north of the country by the end of 2016, thus highlighting its priorities, sustainable development and envrionmental protection.

Italcementi is second in the country in the cement market, with 24% market share, and is Lafarge's main competitor.

The company aims to expand to Guinea, Western Africa, where several projects have been identified. Works are due to begin in 2015

In 2015, Lafarge Cement Zimbabwe (Lafarge Cement) will spend another US$5 million (€4.43 million) on plant upgrades.

The proposal has been approved by its parent company, France-based Lafarge Group.

The plant upgrades will increase the cement maker's volume from 390,000 tonnes of cement/year at present, to 500,000 tonnes.

In 2014, the company had announced its plans to spend up to US$15 million on upgrading its milling plant.

The Belarusian company Granit has lowered its plan for crushed stone production in 2015 from 15.70 million tonnes to 13.50 million tonnes, which is the same as in 2012.

The company may also stop developing the Sitnitskoe field and construction of a mining and processing plant.

Granit's actions are caused by a fall in demand for crushed stone in Russia, which is the main export market of the company, as well as by the Russian rouble's devaluation and price dumping practices of Ukrainian producers.

According to 2014 exploration results, the Primorsky region (Far East) of Russia had 31.61 million m³ of common minerals (such as sand, gravel), up from 15.5 million m³ in 2013. It is reported to have produced 4,064m³ in 2014 (-846,000m³ year-on-year).

Market players attribute the decline to the decrease in the demand for building materials and the absence of major projects.

As of 1 January 2015, the region had 253 mining licenses for areas of common minerals against 206 in 2013, and the total number

Building materials producer Cemex has opened a new 6,200m² production site in Carros in the French department of Alpes-Maritime.

With six hoppers, it has a unitary capacity of 80tonnes, with a storage capacity of 480tonnes of granulates as well as an additive storage facility in line with environmental regulations.

All water used is recycled for the production of concrete or to wash material, and returned concrete is recycled after hardening and crushing.

The factory has been painted black and gree

Magna Tyres Group and tyre wholesaler Reifen Müller have announced the establishment of their strategic relationship.

This agreement is an important step towards further introduction and continuation of Magna as a well-known OTR tyre brand in Germany.

Magna Tyres says it has found the ideal partner in Reifen Müller to further expand its OTR tyre activities in Germany.

The Ash Grove Cement Company of Overland Park, Kansas, has announced that James P. Sunderland, former company chairman and president, has died, aged 87.

He joined the Ash Grove Lime and Portland Cement Company in 1957 as its corporate secretary in Kansas City.

In his 43-year career at Ash Grove Cement, Sunderland held several leadership positions, including serving as the company’s chairman and president, and during his tenure, the company became one of the largest Portland cement producers in the US.

Exports of US-made construction equipment declined 14.9% for first quarter 2015 compared to first quarter 2014, with a total US$3.65 billion shipped to global markets.
All world regions experienced declines, and all in the double digits except Europe and Canada, with Africa the hardest hit, according to the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM), the North American-based international trade group representing the off-road equipment manufacturing industry.
AEM cited US Department of Commerce data i

RAIL.ONE Group, the producer of concrete sleepers and railway track systems, plans to implement a new corporate structure.

Within the scope of the reorganisation, the existing RAIL.ONE company is to be split up into a company for the German market and another company for the further development of the international business activities.