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In Guangzhou, China, a strategic agreement has been signed between China Construction Fourth Engineering Division (China Construction) and Lafarge Shui On Cement (Lafarge).

It is said that the collaboration will help lower the operating costs and improve business process efficienies of both companies.

Cooperative principles such as flexible credit payments, supply security and purchasing priority were confirmed under the deal.

In the quarter of July-September 2014, YTL of Malaysia recorded a 13.9% decline in its revenue from MYR 5.21 billion (€1.23 billion/US$1.55 billion) a year ago to MY 4.48 billion.

Its net profit for the quarter dropped by 50% from MYR 427.56 million to MYR 216.13 million year-on-year, due to smaller contributions from its utility business and losses suffered by its management services and other divisions.

During the quarter, the group‘sYTL cement manufacturing and trading segment registered a 13.2% dr

A municipal solid waste processing project that can handle 300tonnes of waste/day has officially started operation in China's Pingliang city.

The project uses Pingliang Conch Cement Company‘s cement kiln system to process waste.

Arkan Building Materials Co has unveiled its AED 1.30 billion (€282.18 million/US$353.94 million) Al Ain Cement Factory.

Dubbed as the largest in the UAE, the cement factory will be catering for growing demand for building materials and cement in the local market. The factory has a cement production capacity of 4.5 million tonnes/year that could be raised to 5.6 million tonnes/year, followed by a clinker production of 900,000tonnes/year that could rise to 4 million tonnes/year.

It is reported that HeidelbergCement, having three large cement plant in Ukraine and occupying 23.8% of the local market, has stopped production at its plant in the Donbass region.

Its plant located east of Donetsk is in an area controlled by the pro-Russian separatists.

According to a representative of HeidelbergCement, their ideas about how business should be conducted does not coincide with the views of the group.

The newly-developed 55kW Hatz diesel engine 4H50TIC is among the TOP 10 of the GreenTec Awards 2015, one of Europe’s most prestigious environmental awards.

Development of the engine was funded because of its predicted and achieved goals by the Federal Ministry of Economy and Energy in Germany.

The engine is said to be the world's first industrial diesel engine that follows a consistent downsizing concept, and in a public online voting t until 11 January, 2015, it could be selected to the finals by vis

The 2014 winner of the international Swedish Steel Prize is Belaz from Belarus.

The prize was awarded for the company’s “innovative and new construction” for axle suspension and slewing bearings for the world’s largest dump truck. The new construction takes full advantage of the properties of high-strength steel.

“Belaz has boldly gone beyond the boundaries of what has earlier been considered possible using available technology,” says Gregoire Parenty, chairman of the jury and executive vice president

The UK Mineral Products Association (MPA) played an active and supporting role at the CBI Minerals Group’s Living with Minerals 5’ (LWM5) Conference with the theme Towards a UK Minerals Strategy’.

The Conference debated the merits of a UK Minerals Strategy, as well as drawing attention to the essential contribution of the minerals industry to the UK economy and our quality of life.

New findings launched at the event revealed that:

Minerals extraction generates a turnover of £5.3 billion (€6.6 bill

A new 20m high secondary aggregate production plant belonging to UK company Wainwright & Co is estimated to be 60% more productive than the equipment it replaces.

The county Somerset, south-west England-based company’s Moons Hill Quarry has seen £3.5 million (€4.4 million) of investment in the plant, replacing some of the equipment that has been in use since 1963. The crushing and screening equipment is all manufactured by Sandvik Construction.

Independent company John Wainwright & Co has been supplyi

A fleet of SDLG wheeled loaders is supporting HeidelbergCement Georgia and HeidelbergBeton Georgia to keep pace with its 24/7 production schedule at its concrete production sites across Georgia.

HeidelbergCement has seven concrete and two cement manufacturing plants which are maintained using the SDLG wheeled loaders.

The company’s SDLG fleet is a mix of LG936L, LG953 and LG968 machines and they are used for a variety of tasks, including cement loading and aggregates handling from the onsite quarries.

Family-owned Australian company WA Limestone has become one of the biggest suppliers of road construction materials and armour rock for breakwater construction and marine infrastructure in Western Australia.

The company, which has been operating for over 40 years, has quarries strategically located all over the Perth and north-west area, and its sand and gravel plant, now in its fourth year of operation, produced 1 million tonnes of concrete sand and gravel in the first three years. It supplies 30 differ

Despite already boasting a large road network spanning more than 213,649km of paved highways and some 154,711km of unpaved highways, Indonesia is demonstrating a voracious appetite for closing what is still a gap in its transport infrastructure. Guy Woodford reports.

From next year, Indonesia’s 250 million plus population along with visitors to the archipelago’s thousands of islands will see an awful lot of construction equipment appear at infrastructure development sites.

To well and truly close Indo

Wheeled loader is fitted with a special bucket to suit the demands of German quarry site.

One of the first Hitachi ZW370-5s in Europe has been delivered to a quarrying company in the Eifel region of Germany.

Trasswerke Meurin ordered the large wheeled loader to handle lava, pumice and basalt materials in the quarry, where it started working over 150 years ago. These materials are common to the area, due to an eruption approximately 12,900 years ago that created the Vulkaneifel volcanic field, and the

As Egypt announces plans to build 3,200km of new roads, Italian company Veronafiere is launching a new exhibition in Cairo for companies who want to exploit Egypt’s trading opportunities. Kristina Smith reports.

In July this year, Egypt’s Minister of Transportation Hany Dahy told the Al-Ahram newspaper that the government’s national development plan includes up to 3,200km of new roads at an estimated cost of LE36 billion (€3.92 billion/US$5 billion). Around 1,200km, costing LE17 billion (€1.85 billion/$2

The aggregates market in The Netherlands has been given a boost after the Dutch Minister of Infrastructure and Environment and the State Secretary said an extra €28 billion is to be made available until 2028 for the construction, management and maintenance of national roads, railways and waterways. The extra investment will enable the reinforcement of five bridges across the canals in Twente, improvement of the ring road Noordelijke Randweg Utrecht, and the installation of electric wiring on the railway lin

Cutting-edge hydraulic breakers, drills and hammers are a feature of 2014, with the recent Steinexpo show hosting the launch of more new models. Guy Woodford reports.

Chicago Pneumatic’s hydraulic breakers and portable compressors are said to be proving a great fit for India’s expanding granite building stone industry. An example of this is Kerala-based granite quarry National Granite and Hollow Bricks which is successfully using CP1150 and RX22 hydraulic breakers as well as a CPP60E portable air compre

A leading global manufacturer has unveiled what it claims is a world crawler excavator first, while increased demands from leading European cement and aggregate companies for local firms to load and haul their materials is encouraging new UK loader model sales. Guy Woodford reports.

Komatsu, in cooperation with global partner Topcon, says its new PC210LCi-10 model for the EU market is the world’s first fully integrated OEM machine control crawler excavator.

Built at Komatsu UK’s excavator plant in Bir

Cement consumption in Spain grew by an encouraging 5% in October 2014, compared with the year-ago period, to reach 1.037 million tonnes. And Oficemen, the Spanish cement manufacturers association, believe national cement consumption could grow by double figures in 2015. The October cement consumption figure and the upbeat forecast for 2015 is a big contrast to Spain’s cement consumption figure for the January 1 to October 31 period, when consumption fell 0.5%, putting the sector's figures at their lowest le

Egypt-based South Valley Cement Company (SVCC) has signed an agreement with five local lenders for a long-term syndicated loan facility worth US$178.04 million (EGP 1.27 billion). According to a statement, the facility has a grace period of eight years, and it will be used to fund the company's expansion in energy alternatives, grinding energy and storage among others. The five lenders involved in the deal are Arab African International Bank, Ahli United Bank, Banque Misr, Commercial International Bank-Egyp

One leading global dump truck manufacturer has big plans to expand its production capacity, while others are attracting strong interest in their latest models. Guy Woodford reports.

Ambitious Chinese firm SANY is planning to ramp up production levels to meet growing demand for its expanding range of haulers for mining and quarrying applications.

The firm’s Kunshan factory has seen its truck production rise from just two in 2009, following a manufacturing relocation from Shanghai, to 200 last year. No