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Chicago Pneumatic says it has become the blue stone quarry industry’s leading provider of portable compressors in India’s Navi-Mumbai region.
The company is now believed to supply 80% of the portable compressors in use across the region’s 250 stone quarries.
Chicago Pneumatic’s success in Navi-Mumbai began in October 2007 when the Akshay Stones quarry purchased its first CPS325 compressor.
This breakthrough order helped Chicago Pneumatic gain a reputation across the region, leading to more than 150 comp

Nigeria-based Dangote Group is aiming for the company to become one of the world’s top 100 companies within three years.
Aliko Dangote, Africa’s wealthiest man and Dangote’s chief executive, revealed this recently saying the company planned to expand regionally, with the aim of investing US$16 billion (€11.81 billion), where it already has considerable investments.
Dangote, already Africa’s leading cement producer, will complete five cement plants across five African countries in 2014, adding about 13.5 m

Metso CEO and president Matti Kahkonen explained how the company is evolving as Mike Woof reports.

Finnish crushing and screening specialist Metso is looking to expand its worldwide operations following the recent demerger of the group.
CEO and president Matti Kahkonen said that Metso has been a multi-industry business for the last 14 years. The firm’s biggest divisions have been the joint construction and mining division and the pulp and paper business, with its automation sector being the smallest of

Metso CEO and president Matti Kahkonen explained how the company is evolving as Mike Woof reports.

Finnish crushing and screening specialist Metso is looking to expand its worldwide operations following the recent demerger of the group.
CEO and president Matti Kahkonen said that Metso has been a multi-industry business for the last 14 years. The firm’s biggest divisions have been the joint construction and mining division and the pulp and paper business, with its automation sector being the smallest of

For indication of growth opportunities in Africa and particularly sub-Saharan Africa, look to the energy and transport sectors, and some pockets of economic expansion.
South Africa is naturally still the largest market, with aggregates extraction currently estimated by the Aggregates & Sand Producers Association of South Africa (ASPASA) at about 150 million tonnes/year. Other countries and their major infrastructure projects are developing, however.
Nigeria can now claim the largest cement industry in sub

One of the world’s largest infrastructure projects will require millions, if not billions, of tonnes of concrete.

In China, a variety of quarries and plants are producing the aggregates and cement required to supply concrete for the South-North water transfer scheme, which was started in 2002.

After completion, around 45 billion m³ of water will be diverted annually from the Yangtze River in southern China to the Yellow River Basin in arid northern China through the new canals running for several thou

What may well be the world’s largest mobile crushed stone plant started operation near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2013, where gneiss rock is being processed with the aid of mobile crushers from Kleemann. Two of the world’s biggest sporting events, the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games, will be hosted in Rio de Janeiro, and such mega-events involve immense infrastructure projects such as those of the Brazilian company Tamoio Mineração.

Tamoio is located just a few kilometres fr

Scottish company A&L McCrae Contractors has taken delivery of a new Doosan DX140LC 14tonne crawler excavator which has been working in a local quarry. Based in Argyll in the west of the country, the plant was bought from Coatbridge-based Scotia Plant, the authorised Doosan and Bobcat dealer for the central belt of Scotland. It is the fifth Doosan excavator supplied by Scotia Plant to be added to the McCrae fleet.

According to A&L McCrae Contractors, the reliability and high productivity of the Doosan exc

A new CH550 cone crusher from Sandvik Construction is helping the NIVET TPPL quarry produce a 0-10mm aggregate for use in road construction and civil engineering projects.

Part of the famous NIVET Group of quarrying and construction companies located in the west of France, the TPPL quarry is now able to provide customers with the aggregates they require, and deliver the material when it is needed. Furthermore the quarry has also reported direct operational benefits from the what are said to be the specia

2014 is a year of change starting with the Greek EU Presidency; the EU Commission 2014 work programme; the EU elections and the Italian EU Presidency during the second half of 2014.

EU Presidencies in 2014

The Greek EU Presidency started on 1 January. It is the fifth time that Greece will hold the EU Presidency since its accession to the EU in 1981.

Every year, three million tonnes of crushed rock is drilled, blasted, transported and sold from a low silica limestone quarry in Fujairah, one of the seven districts of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
A relative stone’s throw from the glittering towers and desert oasis of Dubai, Tawiain in Fujairah lies just inland on the Gulf of Oman coastline. The region is dominated by the Hajar mountain range, which reaches up to 1,000m and contains igneous, limestone and metamorphic rocks.

Chinese quarry producer Beijing Xindadi Equipment Company is looking to increase the size of its Caterpillar machine fleet as part of its plan to increase output.

The company is based at Beijing Miyun Taishi Village and currently produces 1-1.5 million tonnes/year of limestone, which is used for general construction in the Beijing area, writes Mike Woof.

Zhang Guofeng is equipment manager for the firm and said, “Business is good because the market is not affected by the downturn.”

The formula for making concrete: water, cement and aggregates, seems simple, but concrete manufacture is a complex process. Developing various mixes for concrete requires advanced scientific skills, with the quality of the cement and aggregates and the dosage and proportions just some of the variables that influence the properties of concrete.

Likewise, the equipment for producing concrete has become more sophisticated over the years with precision measurement of the ingredients now standard on most mac

Loading and hauling, however achieved, is an essential part of any quarry or related operation. Getting material from A to B in the shortest time and most cost-effective manner is the key. Saqr Port is the biggest bulk handling port in the Middle Eastern region, handling materials on a global scale.

In the northern Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah, it has 12 berths and an in-port draft of up to 12m, and handles vessels up to 260m long. Efficiency and productivity have seen throughput increased by 100% in the p

Hauling is a major part of the biggest public-private partnership (PPP) contract ever signed in France’s rail sector, as Patrick Smith reports. Indeed, the South Europe Atlantic high-speed rail (SEA HSR) that will run for 302km from Tours to Bordeaux is said to be one of the world’s largest infrastructure projects launched over the last decade.

About 400 Volvo Construction Equipment (CE) machines are being used at the SEA HSR development that will pass through a giant chunk of Western France–Centre, Poit

An upswing in new infrastructure worldwide means that demand for aggregates and therefore concrete is also increasing. Housing, non-residential, road, rail and bridges are among projects now under construction in many countries.

Indeed, statistics show that twice as much concrete is used in construction around the world than the total of all other building materials, including wood, steel, plastic and aluminium, and annual production is measured in billions of tonnes.

Reporting from Zambia, Shem Orier

Safety, along with productivity and cost-efficiency, is what is driving minerals processing and aggregate production today. Indeed, as raw materials and other resources become scarcer, plants look for new ways to be more efficient with energy use and operations.

Metso and other companies are developing their offering in intelligent processes and service solutions to help customers meet these challenges.

“Safety is a high priority, and having zero accidents is every plant’s goal. Automation removes op

Before Christmas, the European Commission published a package of proposals aimed at improving quality of Europe’s air,despite concern from across industry. Simon Trahair-Davies of Stephens Scown LLP sets out the proposals with particular reference to a proposal, as part of that package, to introduce a directive on emissions from medium combustion plants.

On the 18 December 2013, the European Commission published its Clean Air P

The aggregates industry in Eastern Europe is once again among the front runners in global recovery, writes Julie-Anne Ryan.

Latest figures from recent years vary from country to country depending on individual organisations, but from forecasts showing a worldwide expansion through to 2017 of 5.8% a year to 53.2 billion tonnes, Eastern Europe is expected to register faster growth than many.

Marshalls recorded pre-tax profits of £13 million (€15.55 million/US$21.49 million) in 2013, up from profits of £9.3 million the previous year.

The paving block maker's revenues reached £307.4 million, up from £300.9million the year before.

Marshalls benefited from a strong second-half performance and an increase in international sales to £16.5 million. The company added that sales for the first two months of 2014 are up 18% against the corresponding period in 2013, although it acknowledged that sales