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HAVER & BOECKER the Packing machine specialist and supplier of complex systems and plants for the cement, building materials and minerals, chemicals, and mineral processing industries, has opened a subsidiary company in Lagos, Nigeria.

It says that over the last decade an intensive partnership has developed in the West African country through the Dangote Group. The target of the now ongoing set-up of the subsidiary company HAVER & BOECKER Nigeria is to allow a more rapid and targeted reaction in order to

McLanahan Corporation’s., has received certification in the ISO 9001:2008 Management System for the design, manufacture and service of equipment for the mineral, aggregate, agricultural and industrial industries.

The official registration audit was completed by SRI Quality System Registrar of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, and the company received its official certification in December. The success of the registration evaluation was ultimately the result of the commitment McLanahan employees have to pro

Philippi-Hagenbuch (PHIL) has signed an agreement with Håkan Johannesson, vice president of CeDe Group of Malmö, Sweden, licensing its Rear Eject Technology for use in off-highway body applications within the construction and mining sectors to CeDe for use in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Australia.

Rear Eject Bodies manufactured under the agreement by CeDe and shipping into Europe, the Middle East and Africa will be branded as CeDe products and bodies shipped into Australia will be branded under

Hitachi Construction Machinery (Europe)/(HCME) and Shell are testing the suitability of Shell GTL (gas-to-liquids) Fuel in construction operations.
The latest range of Hitachi Zaxis-5 excavators is being used to trial the liquid fuel as a solution to environmental and quality concerns surrounding conventional crude oil-derived diesel.

When it comes to hauling material in a quarry, be that uncrushed stone, crushed material or overburden, quarry operators don’t have that many choices.
Smaller sites or those with tough weather and ground conditions will tend towards articulated dump trucks (ADT), while those working with higher payloads, longer hauls and well maintained haul roads will prefer a rigid dump truck (RDT) fleet, writes Dan Gilkes.
The third option of course is to crush the material in-pit with mobile crushers and use conveyors

Dust from quarries tends to be unavoidable, particularly when the weather is very dry.
Activities, including the drilling, blasting, loading, hauling, conveying and crushing and screening of rocks all generate dust as does transporting the finished products.
According to Sustainable Aggregates in the UK, predicting the level of dust emission is extremely difficult because of the complex nature of mineral operations and the variable dispersion and dilution characteristics of dust in the air.
“This clearly

The maintenance of quarry sites and associated equipment is not only essential for health and safety but productivity as well.
Such maintenance includes regular inspection and, where necessary, the repair of fixtures such as haul roads, embankments and vehicles on site where tasks, including wheel washing, are a daily occurrence.
Ensuring plant operators and site engineers receive regular and adequate training is also essential says Ryan Barker, global service manager for CDE.

UK brickworks are scrambling to meet growing demand amid a revival in the housing market. Many brickworks were closed or mothballed as a result of the recession but builders are now reporting shortages of bricks and say the supply problems are causing project delays.

A shortage of roof tiles and skilled workers has been highlighted by builder Redrow.

Michelmersh Brick Holdings says it is making as many bricks as possible, while many brickworks across the UK have avoided the traditional end of year st

The factory operated by cement company, Lafarge, in Villaluenga de la Sagra in Spain, contributed €35 million to the regional economy of Castilla-La Mancha in 2013, according to the factory manager, Mariano Garcia Hoyos.

The contribution came through taxes, wages, contracting of services, sponsorship, donations and agreements.

The factory has employed 170 people directly and indirectly, and supplied 60,000tonnes of cement for the Legutiano Tunnel in Vitoria; 23,000tonnes for the construction of wareh

The Uk Mineral Products Association (MPA) is again highlighting the regulatory cost burden on the mineral products sector to government as preparation for the Chancellor’s March Budget takes place.

MPA says its research in recent years has highlighted the ever-increasing scale and cost of this burden on the mineral products industry.

Nigel Jackson, chief executive MPA, said: “MPA remains extremely concerned at the identified cumulative cost burden on our sector arising from environmental and planning

A generational change took place at the helm of Haver & Boecker in Oelde, Germany, when Florian Festge (39) and Dr Fabian Festge (36) took over responsibility for the management of the Machinery Division of the company from their father, Dr Reinhold Festge, who has taken over the position of president at the Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau (Association of German Machinery and Plant Manufacturers) for the next three years.

He will continue to be available to his sons for advising on matters ma

FLSmidth has received an order worth US$38 million (approximately DKK 205m) from Omani cement producer Oman Cement Company (SAOG) for the supply of milling equipment for a cement plant located in Rusayl Industrial Area, 60km from Port Sultan Qaboos, Muscat.

The order covers supply of a 150tonnes/hour closed circuit ball mill system including two cement silos, each with a capacity of 8,000tonnes. The scope of supply also includes a high-efficiency central drive for the ball mill and a dynamic separator an

Africa’s leading cement producer, Dangote cement has revealed that it will complete five cement plants spread across five African countries this year, adding about 13.5 million tonnes of cement/year to the existing capacity when completed.

The plants are at various stages of construction, and Africa’s wealthiest man and chief executive of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, says the projects, highlighting company’s pan-African expansion drive, include the 1.5million tonnes/year Zambian plant; Tanzania’s 1.5 mi

The size of the construction materials market in Romania in 2013 stood at around €3.20 billion, about the same as 2012. This sector accounts for one-third of the whole construction industry

Market players report that two concrete manufacturers, Lujabeton and Betomix LO, will merge in the nearest future.

Lujabeton is a subsidiary of Finland's Luja, whose annual turnover totals approximately €500 million and Betomix LO is a division of Finland's Rudus, which has over €300 million turnover and belongs to Ireland's CRH Group.

The rumoured merger will allow the companies to occupy 5% of the St Petersburg and the Leningrad region market. Some experts think that both businesses will remain, but

Turkish construction company AKG Gazbeton has been awarded by the Ministry of Energy in the 2014 Industrial Energy Efficiency Project contest.

The company's project saves 50% water, energy and heat in construction material Gazbeton production, which amounts to 162,000kcal/hour.

AKG Gazbeton's project can be adapted to other sectors' operations which use water heating.

Herbert Pexider Gesellschaft, the Austrian manufacturer of concrete, cement and calcareous sandstone for construction and wholesaler of building materials and sanitary ceramics, is insolvent.

It has liabilities amounting to €9.8 million and assets of some €2.5 million. Pexider has a debt of approximately €7.3 million and its insolvency affects 88 creditors. Its circumstances are attributed to the difficult climate in the construction and construction materials industry. Pexider has been unable to find a

In Russia, the National Association for Pricing and Value Engineering reports the average wholesale prices for ready-mix concretes and mortars to have grown 2.9% in 2013. Prices for sand grew 7.5%, while prices for crushed rock grew 7.2%. Cement prices grew 1.5%. Walling material prices grew 10.1%. Prices for ferrous rolled building materials reduced 2.5%.

The RX46 breaker from Chicago Pneumatic is being used by Ballut Blocks, one of Malta’s largest civil engineering contractors, to meet challenging productivity targets on the project, which involves the excavation of 1 million m3 of rock over a period of four years without the use of explosives.

With a service weight of 3,000kg, the RX46 breaker is one of the largest ever used on the Mediterranean island of Malta. It was supplied by Swaey Bros, a company that has been Chicago Pneumatic’s sole distributor

Spanish natural stone company, Levantina, is progressing with its commitment to corporate social responsibility (CSR) with the creation of the Levantina Foundation which will focus on developing social economy and entrepreneurial and corporate spirit. It will also work on disseminating knowledge on the natural stone industry, protecting the environment and generating environmental and social value.

The foundation will mainly be funded by private contributions from Grupo Levantina. Initial work to concent