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The government of the Kyrgyz Republic plans to put Kurmentycement factory and a limestone field near it up for sale. The company is undergoing bankruptcy proceedings. Its management company is Kar-Kyra.

According to Dwi Soetjipto, managing director of Semen Indonesia, the cement producer has started work on its new cement plant in Rembang.

The green plant, with capacity of 3 million tonnes/year covers 5 hectares, and some 30% of the area around the plant will be used as an open green area.

The environmentally-friendly features of the plant include strict emission control, use of alternative energy as well as lower utilization of electricity and water.

Finnish construction and infrastructure company Lemminkäinen's deputy CEO Casimir Lindholm has been appointed Lemminkäinen Corporation's president and CEO and the chairman of the Executive Team as of 1 August 2014.

Lindholm is currently the executive vice president, building construction in Finland. He will continue in this duty until a new executive vice president has been found.

Regulatory approvals for the acquisition of controlling shares in two companies in South Africa have been secured by South Africa-based construction company Raubex.

It has bought a 70% stake in the gypsum operations and another 70% in aggregate crushing and ready-mix concrete operations of Oranje Mynbou en Vervoer (OMV) for ZAR 70.30 million (€ 4.84 million).

The acquisition will take effect from 1 July 2014. Apart from that, a 60% stake in Shisalanga Construction has been acquired by Raubex for ZAR 3

In France, Cemex has joined the Carbone Local Midi-Pyrénées initiative aimed at allowing entities to offset their greenhouse gas emissions on a local scale.

The scheme will allow the acquisition of Carbone Local credits from Ecocert. Prior to signing the agreement on 17 June 2014, Cemex contributed to the planting of 500 tree seedlings at its Cugnaux site.

France's national union of quarry industries and construction materials (Unicem) reports an activity decline of 3.4% in May 2014, confirming the downward trend witnessed in April.

Ready-mix concrete production was stable at 0.2% in May but down 2.3% compared with May 2013.

The aggregates sector was down 5.6% in May 2014 compared to May 2013. There was a 3.4% increase in public works contracts carried out between April 2013 and April 2014. Housing starts have declined since the beginning of 2014, with

Raymond Brown Aggregates has won a new long-term contract for incinerator bottom ash (IBA) processing with one of the UK’s leading recycling, waste management and renewable energy companies.
Raymond Brown was chosen by Viridor to build and operate a new IBA processing facility to produce a secondary aggregate (IBA aggregate) at its new County Oxfordshire plant.
The contract will last for 15-years and will see Raymond Brown, one of the country’s leading IBA processing companies, invest more than £2 million

French construction materials company Garandeau has acquired Carrières d'Ambazac. The family company, based in Haute-Vienne, comprises three entities: Ambazac Béton, Carrières d'Ambazac and Ambazac Transports.

Caterpillar has given dealers and customers a first glimpse of the new Hydex BH40 articulated block handler.
Appearing at a demonstration at the Caterpillar Block Handling Days at a Carrara marble quarry, near Pisa in Italy, the machine is specifically designed to transport mining blocks around the site easily and safely.

CEMEX UK has completed a £11 million (€13.8 million) deal with Finning UK and Ireland to create the UK’s first integrated equipment management contract at Dove Holes limestone quarry in Buxton, County Derbyshire, England.
The eight-year contract will see Finning and CEMEX staff work hand in hand to deliver numerous efficiency gains that will lead to a £1.4 million (€1.75 million) fuel saving over the contract period. Key improvements will include a 15% increase in production and a 10% reduction in machine

H2 Equity Partners is to acquire Ballast Phoenix, a UK-based aggregates recycling business, from Dutch construction company Ballast Nedam. The £30 million (€37.52 million) sale is expected to be completed by the end of June 2014. Ballast Phoenix processes incinerator bottom ash into construction aggregates.

The RESTORE Project’s mid-term conference took in Dortmund, Germany, where stakeholders from local and regional governments, environmental NGOs, community groups, the minerals industry and research institutes, across the project’s partner countries, contributed and discussed four themes related to mineral sites restoration, each with keynote speeches. The need for partnership working; delivering public benefits; involving local communities, and using an ecosystem-services approach in successful restoration

Metso has secured a six-month long grinding media order to a gold mine in Egypt with a value of over €5 million.
"Our comprehensive value adding services packages will materially improve the productivity of our customers' processes and their overall performance. The quality of our grinding media will lower both the wear rate of the grinding media as well as the operative costs for the customer" says Rodrigo Gouveia, SVP, Wears Solutions, Services business line, Mining and Construction, Metso.

Chicago Pneumatic has appointed United Sales & Services (USS) as its official distributor in Southern Africa. The company, which operates in South Africa, Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo, will now supply its customers in the region with Chicago Pneumatic’s complete portfolio of construction equipment and portable energy products, in addition to its range of stationary compressors and hand-held power tools.

Nick Allen has been appointed Volvo Construction Equipment Division, Volvo Group UK’s managing director. He joined the dealership in 2010 as chief financial officer having previously worked within Volvo CE’s European sales and marketing function. At the end of 2013 he took on the role of interim managing director for the division replacing Val Ledden who was promoted within the group.

Although it was a mixed bag of first-quarter results for the major aggregates and cement producers, company chiefs remain upbeat about prospects. Lafarge and Holcim, preparing for a “merger of equals” had differing results. Lafarge saw a 2014 first-quarter net loss of €135 million (loss of €117 million in 2013) and Holcim an operating profit of CHF 295 million (approximately €241 million) , an increase of 9.3%. On a like-for-like basis the growth in operating profit was 28.4%. “Our first quarter results con

First Aggregates Company (FAC), Russia’s largest producer of crushed stone and one of the country’s largest aggregates producer, may be sold to one of its local competitors. The amount of the deal is estimated at 4.8 billion rubles (US$130 million). Among the main bidders for the company, owned by the national railway monopoly RZD, are rumoured to be several large Russian aggregates producers, including Berdyaush, JSC Yuzhuralavtoban from Magnitogorsk and the National Aggregates Company, owned by Russian bu

Recent data from Nigeria’s statistics office indicate that the country has surpassed South Africa as Africa’s largest economy.
Nigeria’s Bureau of Statistics said the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) for 2013 totalled US$509.9 billion, an increase from the $258 billion estimated before a rebasing calculation.
According to reports, Africa’s most populous country with 170 million people and the continent’s top oil producer has been growing as a destination for foreign investors owing to the size of it

A revolutionary vertical shaft impact (VSI) crusher from Sandvik Construction has helped O’Ahu, Hawaii-based company, Hawaiian Cement, supply badly-needed aggregates and cement products for the island’s construction industry. Before adopting the CV229 from Sandvik, the company had to import sand from British Columbia, Canada, over 3,200km away.

Hawaiian Cement is now able to supply materials of the highest quality for the islands infrastructure projects, and reduce its own carbon footprint by being able

Quarry overburden in the quarrying and aggregate production process is the only by-product, and being a natural product it offers no pollution risk. Indeed, while the material which overlies a rock formation cannot be usually be used for the production of aggregates, it has to be disposed of in a managed manner. Often it is removed to a disposal site, then shaped and re-vegetated to blend in with the landscape.