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A total of US$40 million (€35.87 million) is being invested by Holcim Philippines to raise capacity.

The money will largely be used for the de-bottlenecking of current facilities. Such move will be able to increase the output of cement to 10 million tonnes through 2017.

According to Eduardo A Sahagun, CEO and president of Holcim, financing the capacity expansion is not an issue as the company has ample cash and very little debt.

Some PHP 2 billion has been set aside by the company for capital expen

Hitachi Construction Machinery is to develop an autonomous haulage system (AHS) that is scheduled to be delivered to the global mining industry by 2017.

The company says that historically, Hitachi Construction Machinery has been committed to innovation and its interest in AHS technology will lead to increased flexibility for its customers, and improved safety and operation efficiency at mines around the world.

Hitachi Construction Machinery’s dump trucks already benefit from existing synergies within

Having commissioned its new Technical Centre in 2013 the latest part of CMS Cepcor’s expansion plans at itsr global headquarters in Coalville, County Leicestershire, central England, is nearing completion with the opening of a new purpose-built corporate head office building.

When complete the new facilities will incorporate CMS Cepcor’s corporate and administration functions alongside research and development, quality inspection, crusher training facilities and a substantial expansion of its existing cr

The creditor banks of Sacci, the Italian cement manufacturer, are reported to have rejected the 99.5% acquisition bid launched by Buzzi Unicem, the other leading Italian cement maker. The €120 million offer had been accepted by Sacci.

Asia Cement posted a 15.8% on-year drop in its January-March 2015 revenue to CNY 1.35 billion (€194.71 million/US$217.10 million).
Also, the Taiwan-based company reported a 99.97% decline in its profit to CNY 37,000 (€5,344.33/$5,959.07) during the quarter.

Sales of cement maker Holcim Indonesia declined by 4.5% from a year ago to IDR 2.25 trillion (€154.76 million/US$173.11 million) in the first quarter of 2015.
Cost of sales for the company under the Holcim Group of Switzerland expanded by 3% to IDR 1.72 trillion.
Its net income decreased from IDR 323.60 billion to IDR 32.70 billion due to increasing costs and lower demand.

Accurate payload monitoring over time can save huge sums for a quarry business, with leading weighing solution manufacturers constantly bringing new products to the market. Guy Woodford looks at what’s new for 2015.

For accurate payload monitoring within quarry operations, Trimble Loadrite has introduced InsightHQ, its new web-based management portal accessible via any browser, including mobile devices. The new portal is said to consolidate live, operational information from Trimble Loadrite devices acro

UK plant machinery maintenance specialist United Plant Services (UPS) has made an ambitious and significant investment in a new national fleet of support vehicles, dedicated to satisfy increasing demand for the successful range of services offered by the company. The fleet investment coincides with a major rebrand for the company as it integrates sister company Macplant – well known in Scotland – under the UPS name for a unified, UK-wide network of 40 versatile, highly-trained engineers.

United Plant Ser

Dust Control Technology (DCT) has introduced a new quick-release manifold bracket, engineered to limit worker exposure to harsh service environments and potential safety hazards, while minimising process downtime.

Designed to fit all fan-driven models of DustBoss atomised mist dust suppression equipment, the bracket design allows removal and replacement of the manifold in about five minutes, with no tools required. It secures the manifold in position, allowing maintenance personnel to remove and replace

The Irish international building materials group, CRH, says it expects further progress in the second half of 2015, with group EBITDA from continuing operations in H2 expected to be ahead of 2014.
The group, which will report its interim results for the six months ending 30 June 2015 on 27 August, revealed this in an interim management statement for the period 1 January 2015 to 30 April 2015. Its annual meeting is in Dublin tomorrow (Thursday).
The statement says that looking ahead to the second half of t

Having already spent 35 years at Caterpillar, and as the world’s biggest selling construction equipment manufacturer’s Vice President of Worldwide Sales & Marketing, Construction & Infrastructure, it makes sense to hear Paolo Fellin’s views on the quarrying market. Guy Woodford listened to them.

Paolo Fellin is very quick to sum up what he sees as quarry sector customers key priority. “Lower cost per tonne [of quarried material]. Quarrying is a highly competitive environment with high pressure on aggrega

Vulcan Materials, America’s largest producer of construction aggregates, reported a Q1 2015 loss of US$39.8 million, after reporting a profit in the same period a year earlier.

On a per-share basis, the Birmingham, Alabama-based company said it had a loss of 30 cents. Losses, adjusted to extinguish debt and to account for discontinued operations, came to 16 cents per share.

The results are said to have surpassed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of seven analysts surveyed by Zacks Investm

Metso will deliver six Lokotrack range mobile crushing plants to Shimizu Corporation to assist in a major landfill project being carried out in the 2011 tsunami area in the Tohoku region of Japan. The new-generation LT120 model crushing plants will be used to crush 6-7 million tonnes of aggregates on a demanding project schedule.

The earthquake and tsunami caused significant sinking of the ground level in several coastal areas in the northern part of Honshu island. Before new construction works can begin

The ambitious growth of Chinese construction equipment brand SDLG across North America continues with the addition of six new dealerships.

It’s been just over a year since SDLG entered North America, and its goal of providing customers with an alternative to premium, used wheeled loaders has made inroads into the industry, as both dealers and customers are said by the brand to be seeing the benefits of its offer of quality wheeled loaders backed by top-notch support.

Six new dealers have joined SDLG’

Superior Industries, a major American manufacturer and global supplier of bulk material processing and handling systems, has acquired MFE Manufacturing.

Family owned and operated since its founding in 1947, MFE designs and builds portable plants for construction, aggregates and material handling industries. The company is headquartered in Miramichi, New Brunswick, Canada.

Today, MFE is best known for engineering and fabricating portable processing plants, including jaw and cone crushing systems, scre

China’s continuing status as the world’s biggest single country consumer of aggregates will always make it a key focus of the quarrying and construction equipment manufacturing industry. The years of highly impressive Chinese double-digit economic growth may not be returning any time soon, but it was interesting to hear Caterpillar CEO Doug Oberhelman tell CNN that a few years of more sustainable growth of 3-5% will still create a “fantastic” market for leading OEMs to trade in.

The reassuring message fr

The recent publication of new encouraging sales figures from the European construction equipment manufacturers’ association, CECE, was perfectly timed, coming as it did the month before INTERMAT 2015. Many visitors to and exhibitors at the 20-25 April event in Paris, France, the world’s biggest construction equipment show globally this calendar year, will have read about the 9% rise in European sales in 2014 compared to 2013. The CECE Economic Report noted that after North America, the European construction

The rise in popularity of mobile crushing and screening solutions looks set to continue in the coming years due to the versatility and increasingly high productivity it offers customers. Guy Woodford hears from a senior Sandvik Construction executive just how exciting a market it has become.

The year 2015 is already shaping up to be a big one for Eugene Lyons, vice president of global sales and marketing for Sandvik’s mobile crushers and screens. But the proud Irishman’s happy disposition is as much to d

For five years European associations representing the Explosives for Civil Uses Task Force, led by the European Aggregates Association (UEPG), have worked closely to ensure a well-informed and prepared supply chain capable of implementing the European Union (EU) Directive on Identification and Traceability of Explosives for Civil Uses by the revised deadline of 5 April 2015.

The European Commission Directive 2008/43/EC, setting up a system for the identification and traceability of explosives for civil u

Metso will deliver six Lokotrack range mobile crushing plants to Shimizu Corporation to assist in a major landfill project being carried out in the 2011 tsunami area in the Tohoku region of Japan.
The new-generation LT120 model crushing plants will be used to crush 6-7 million tonnes of aggregates on a demanding project schedule.
The earthquake and tsunami caused significant sinking of the ground level in several coastal areas in the northern part of Honshu island. Before new construction works can begin,