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Mordovcement is completing the installation of FPB 1314-20 mobile crusher by FAM at the chalk warehouse of its dry cement plant.

The works, carried out by Tekhspetsservis, will stabilise the equipment operations, and in the event of an unexpected stoppage of the conveyor belt, limestone is to be supplied directly to the crusher from the quarry by trucks.

The government of the Republic of Tuva in Siberia, Russia, is planning to build the first cement plant in the region.

The plant will be based on the Karachatsky clay deposit (6 million tonnes in reserve) and Khairykansky limestone deposit (19 million tonnes in reserve).

JSW Steel has received approval from Competition Commission of India (CCI) to acquire the grinding facility of Heidelberg Cement at Raigad in Maharashtra. It has an annual output of 600,000tonnes.

The UK’s CEA (Construction Equipment Association) has been given support to run UK Pavilions at both bauma China, Shanghai (25-28 November 2014) and bCIndia, New Delhi (15-18 December 2014). In addition, the UKTI Trade Show Access Programme (TAP) will offer exhibitor grants of £2,500 per eligible UK exhibitor.

The CEA says it will offer fully fitted stands under the UK banner at both these events, in excellent locations within the exhibition centres with stand packages will be available in early 2014.

Weir Minerals has strengthened its presence in Scandinavia with the addition of a dedicated service centre at a site in Gällivare, north Sweden.

The new facility, which will provide enhanced support to customers across the region, is based alongside an existing manufacturing site operated by Gema Industri, the Swedish mine servicing business acquired by Weir Minerals in 2012.

The service centre includes a team of technicians and support staff for contracts with customers including LKAB and Boliden. It

Cemex, is part of a consortium providing over 550,000m3 of ready-mix concrete for the first phase of what will be Malaysia’s largest infrastructure project, the Klang Valley Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system.

The first line of the project is the Sungai Buloh–Kajang Line, comprising 31 stations, including seven underground stations covering a span of 51km across the heart of the capital Kuala Lumpur.

The Klang Valley MRT project is designed to ease public mobility in the Klang Valley region which is exp

The UK Mineral Products Association (MPA) has published its latest Sustainable Development (SD) Report, which aims to further improve the quality and reporting of sustainability data to achieve more transparency and better communication of sustainability.

This summary of the industry’s sustainable development performance in 2012 is supplemented by commentaries which provide an indication of activities in 2013. This includes examples of areas where further action and progress is required.

Nigel Jacks

LSR Group is acquiring 100% in the Gazstroy company, which controls the Ryabovo Ceramic Plant in the Leningrad region.

The business centres of the holding company are to be part of the payment for the asset. As well as obtaining control over Gazstroy, the group is to get the licence to develop the Krasny Latysh clay quarry with proven reserves to last for 30 years.

After the deal the group is to produce about 450 million bricks a year in the Leningrad region and the St Petersburg and the Moscow region

Grafton Group is joining the FTSE 250 as announced by the exchange on 12 December 2013. Earlier in 2013, the Anglo-Irish building materials producer and retailer took the decision to join the London, England, listing and leave the Irish Stock Exchange.

Krasnoyark Cement (part of Siberian Cement group located in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia) is going to produce 900,000tonnes of cement in 2013 (6.7% up on 2012).

CEO Vladimir Skakun says that 52% of the produce will be high grade cement (35.7% up on 2012).

In 2014, the company expects to boost production to between 920,000-950,000tonnes, particularly special cements. For example, production of oilwell cement is to double to reach 40,000-50,000tonnes with the first contract for supply of oilwell cement being m

French construction materials group Lafarge is to exploit a clay quarry in Roullet from 2014. The Berguille site is located less than 10km from Lafarge's factory in La Couronne.

Clay will be extracted from the 23.6hectare site for cement production over a period of 15 years. The Berguille site will gradually replace supplies from the clay quarry in Nersac.

The Siberian Centre of Logistics (SCL, Tomsk, Siberia), which engages in aggregate materials production and logistics, has taken out a 1.5 year loan of €6.63 million from VTB bank. SCL comprises Tomsk Shipping Company and Samus Shipbuilding Yard.

The money is to pay for the shipping of aggregate materials by water transport.

Spanish company, Grupo Cosentino, which specialises in stone, has chosen enterprise networks, data centre and collaboration technologies from Cisco to simplify its management and provide support to its growing business abroad.

The company hopes that the technology will enable it to reduce operating costs, standardise communications, improve productivity and manage the firm in a global manner. The firm's growth is based on internationalisation, innovation and new technologies.

It has been reported in the Oman media that FLSmidth has signed a contract with Oman Cement Company (SAOG) for supply of equipment and machinery for a cement plant in Oman.

FLSmidth confirms that this information is correct. If and when down payment is received and the contract becomes binding, the company says it will immediately inform the market.

A new Bobcat S130 skid-steer loader is being used for shiptrimming work at a new cement installation providing cement for customers in the London and south-east England region.
It is an important diversification for Scotline’s operations at its Rochester Transit Terminal on the River Medway in County Kent, south-east England.
Scotline bought the loader from Bobcat of London, the authorised Bobcat dealer for London and south-east England.
After docking at the terminal, cement in the hold is pumped out via

Cemex has released Sublime Nature: Photographs that Awe and Inspire, the first edition of its new Nature Series.

The inviting and innovative series follows the same tradition of excellence that won recognition for Cemex’s celebrated 20-volume Conservation Book Series. Through a compendium of spectacular views from award-winning photojournalists, interspersed with profound quotations from the world’s leading poets, naturalists, and scientists, the book seeks to motivate society to become part of nature’s

A Rammer 7013 hydraulic hammer, mounted on a Demlone excavator, played a key role in the demolition of a manufacturing plant in Hinwil, Switzerland.
A range of specialised equipment, including the hammer, was used for demolition. Some of the heaviest beams were over 1m thick and the contractor was also required to process around 10,000m³ of concrete and 1,000tonnes of steel.
A total of 77,000m³ of material was demolished and, where possible, recycled by specialist contractor Toggenburg of Winterthur, wh

Family-run extraction business Kinegar Quarries of Cockburnspath near Dunbar, Scotland, has opted for a new Volvo EC380D excavator for its Glenfin hard rock quarry.
Continuing a 25-year association with Volvo Construction Equipment products, the machine replaces an Akerman EC300, which was built in 1996 and has clocked up 12,600 hours.
The EC380D is in charge of ripping greywacke sandstone from benches at Glenfin Quarry. The material has an exceptionally high PSV value of around 72 which, when crushed dow

Worldwide sales of cement are forecast to expand more than 5%/year through 2017 to over 4.7 billion tonnes, a slight deceleration from the 2007-2012 pace.

Following severe declines from 2008 to 2011 and stagnating demand in 2012, cement consumption is expected to rebound sharply in North America and Western Europe. Eastern Europe will perform much better as well. While growth in China is expected to decelerate noticeably between 2012 and 2017 after more than a decade of rapid gains, demand for cement in

Worldwide sales of cement are forecast to expand more than 5%/year through 2017 to over 4.7 billion tonnes, a slight deceleration from the 2007-2012 pace.

Following severe declines from 2008 to 2011 and stagnating demand in 2012, cement consumption is expected to rebound sharply in North America and Western Europe. Eastern Europe will perform much better as well. While growth in China is expected to decelerate noticeably between 2012 and 2017 after more than a decade of rapid gains, demand for cement in