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In a bid to reduce air pollution, Bamburi Cement in Kenya has adopted the usage of waste tyres instead of coal as an energy source.
Bigger bag fillers that suck in the dust emitted by the plant have also been installed by Bamburi Cement.

Cementir Holding (Cementir), the Italian cement and construction materials producer and part of the Caltagirone group, has announced its intention of carrying out a five-year capital increase worth up to €300 million in order to support the group's growth strategy, especially in the Far East and North and South America.
In particular, the operation, which is expected to be structured as one or more tranches, may also feature a call option.

In response to companies' strategies to avoid the tax on cement, the Moroccan finance law for 2015 will alter the modalities of the tax so that it is imposed on cement production rather than on cement sales.
This comes after cement groups opted to absorb their concrete subsidiaries to avoid the tax, resulting in a loss in revenue for the treasury from the tax on cement used for concrete production.
Sales of cement to subsidiaries represent approximately 16% of total cement production, proportional to the

In an interview with French publication Le Figaro, Bruno Lafont and Wolfgang Reitzle, respectively the future managing director and president of the entity formed by the merger between French construction materials group Lafarge and Swiss cement group Holcim, have said that the project is on track to be completed during the first half of 2015.
Lafont added that the group is still awaiting approval from competition authorities in other countries, including India, the US and Canada.
In the Le Figaro intervi

Limerick-based Adare Machinery has been appointed by Doosan Construction Equipment as a new authorised Dealer for Doosan Heavy and Bobcat products in Ireland.

Under the new agreement, Adare Machinery has exclusivity for sales and service in Munster and Connacht for Doosan 3-53 tonne crawler and wheeled excavators and the Doosan range of wheeled loader models with bucket capacities from 1.9 to 4.8m³. The company is also a dealer for Doosan wheeled loaders in Leinster but on a non-exclusive basis.

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Terex Trucks has appointed a new Sales and Marketing and Aftermarket team as part of a new investment programme following the firm’s acquisition last year by Volvo Construction Equipment.

The new appointments will help the Motherwell, Scotland-based truck manufacturer’s position itself as a key global competitor in both articulated and rigid dump truck markets.

The team will assume their new positions through January and February 2015.

Kobelco is to build a US$41 million US hydraulic excavator production facility in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

Having re-entered the American market successfully in 2013, having a North American production site will allow the Japanese firm to reduce the production lead-time of machineries for its US customers, and improve its capabilities for meeting market needs.

Site preparation for the US production facility will begin in April 2015 and is expected to be completed in December 2015. Kobelco’s mult

British Prime Minister David Cameron and Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne have visited Accrington brick works, County Lancashire, north-west England, to mark the restart of production, seven years after the factory was mothballed.

Around £1.4 million (€1.8 million) has been invested and 30 jobs created to bring the works back into production as regional and national demand for bricks continues to rise.

They were hosted by Hanson UK CEO Patrick O’Shea and Stephen Harrison, managing director o

FLSmidth has signed an agreement with a company in the Solix Group to sell all shares in Cembrit Holding, a leading distributor and manufacturer of fibre-cement products in Europe.
The buyer is a consortium of investors headed by Solix Group, whose strategy is to retain and further develop Cembrit as the leading distributor and manufacturer of fibre-cement products in Europe.
Cembrit has been part of the FLSmidth Group since 1927, and its sale concludes FLSmidth's divestment of building materials compan

A new Safequarry app, the industry’s first health and safety app, has been launched at the Mineral Products Association’s Health & Safety Conference and Awards 2014. At the same time one of the industry’s newest companies, Hope Construction Materials, also received a top safety award. The conference heard that over recent years the Safequarry.com website has made a huge impact across the mineral products industry and beyond: 112 countries worldwide.

The aesthetic appearance of construction machinery is immediately recognisable, but to a casual observer the technical thought process that influences their designs can be overlooked. Legislative changes, the safety and comfort of operators, and the continuous development of new technologies make the visual design of construction equipment a complex and intellectually challenging endeavour, says Chinese construction manufacturer LiuGong.

Lafarge Tarmac has awarded Babcock International Group a £41 million (€52.5 million) five-year contract (with a five-year extension option) to provide a fleet managed service for its heavy mobile equipment (HME) across the UK.
Babcock says the new contract follows an open tender process run by Lafarge Tarmac to secure the best solution for its requirements. Babcock’s independence coupled with ALCAMiE, its proven approach to optimising fleets, was key to this, ensuring that Lafarge Tarmac will benefit from

Atlas Copco has launched a new protective guard for its surface drill rigs to give operators added protection from moving parts.
While the risk of working close to moving parts on any machine is always apparent, and although most operators around the world are required to follow strict safety regulations, accidents still occur. The new Atlas Copco safety concept targets the potential risk of getting too close to the rotating drill rod while the drill rig is in operation.
The firm’s new slim-line guard doe

Australian construction company Dante Constructions has bought a small Rammer 455 breaker through local dealer, Walkers Hammers of Victoria. With a staff of ten, plus a long-serving team of contractors, Dante Constructions provides a range of building and maintenance services in Victoria. To provide enhanced levels of service the company recently bought a 3.5tonne Takeuchi TB128FR excavator, and subsequently went looking for a breaker to work with it.
After being contacted by company director Frank Mazzite

The sale of used construction equipment has become big business over the past few years and it looks like continuing.

Major players in the industry, such as Ritchie Bros., IronPlanet and Euro Auctions, regularly hold successful worldwide auctions, both on-site and online.

As an example of the pull of such events, Ritchie Bros. says that the US$203 million (€163 million) of equipment sold over six days at its Orlando, Florida, USA, auction site in February, 2012, was the largest in its history.

A new modular Metso crushing and screening solution is allowing a quarry company to overcome Mozambique’s tough operational environment and meet growing national aggregate demand, as Munesu Shoko reports
Having posted a robust real GDP growth of 7% in 2013, Mozambique’s economy is on a path of exciting expansion. The unprecedented growth in coal production and the implementation of mega infrastructure projects, coupled with budgetary expansion, are projected to continue swelling growth, estimated at abou

Indonesian state-owned construction firm Waskita Karya will seek a bank loan of US$338 million for its work on the Pejagan-Pemalang toll project in central Java island. The project is being managed by Pejagan Pemalang Toll Road, a subsidiary of Waskita Karya.

Waskita company secretary Antonius Yulianto Nugroho said the firm has enough cash resources to cover a quarter of its financial commitment on the project and is targeting bank loans to cover the other 75%.

Waskita Karya plans to carry out a bond

In 2014, the accumulated national cement production lines in China hit 1,758, including part of the discontinued lines that have not been removed.

The designed clinker production capacity reached 1.77 billion tonnes, while accumulated capacity grew 4% as compared to 2013.

In 2014, cement sales in Indonesia increased by 3.3% to 59.9 million tonnes, based on the Indonesian Cement Association (ASI)'s data.

That figure is lower than targeted, as a result of uncertainty amid legislative and presidential elections. The target sales growth for 2014 had been at 3.5%-4%.

Semen Indonesia is looking to acquire two companies based in South-east Asia and intends to spend between IDR 1 trillion (€66.77 million/US$ 78.74 million) and IDR 2 trillion on the plan.

The cement producer expects to wrap up the acquisition deals within 2015.