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The triennial major UEPG event is the Sustainable Development Awards Ceremony. UEPG launched the  rst European Restoration Award scheme in 1997; in 2005, UEPG enlarged the scope to all aspects of sustainable development with the UEPG Sustainable Development Awards; in 2010, a special award was dedicated to Biodiversity. The European Aggregates Industry supports the principles of sustainable development and is committed to operate with care and concern for the environment, for its neighbours and for society

Any region comprising four or five important producing countries will do well in the league tables in comparison to its constituent parts, but for the relatively sparsely populated Scandinavia there’s no one to touch its aggregates production per capita. Julie-Anne Ryan reports.
Finland and Norway are untouchable in that particular table, with an average of 16 million tonnes per capita, and Denmark and Sweden are also in the top ten.
Scandinavia as a whole has an average per capita tonnage of more than 12

As the demand for crushed rock in many parts of the world shows increases, equipment manufacturers are responding. Patrick Smith reports.
The recent unveiling of new highly productive and fuel efficient machines bears testimony to this.
Major shows such as bauma in Munich, Germany, and bauma Africa in Johannesburg, South Africa, have been the launchpad for such machines. Open days, attended by customers and dealers, have also seen record numbers of machines being demonstrated while many of the leading Eur

Britain’s Hope Construction Materials has invested in a new fleet of quarry machines in partnership with Finning, which has provided a range of new technology to enable Hope to manage the fleet “to achieve maximum productivity, flexibility and fuel efficiency.”

The deal will see Hope making “an entrepreneurial move” by taking the operation of its new fleet of 21 Cat machines in-house, supported by a bespoke fleet management package from Finning. The machines will be used at a range of Hope's aggregates a

Assets and stocks of bankrupt Danish brickworks Lundgaard Teglværk is to be taken over by Randers Tegl by 1 January 2014.

Randers Tegl will make use of the equipment for its investment in Hammershøj Teglværk, which is targeting niche markets where demand is increasing despite the sector's crisis.

Following an international tender, Metso and the industrial service provider Ferrostaal Industrieanlagen, Germany (Ferrostaal) have been awarded a joint contract to build a railcar dumper facility for the iron ore producer Société Nationale Industrielle et Minière (SNIM) in the harbour of Nouadhibou, Mauritania. The value of the order will not be published.

“SNIM's ambitious strategy is to boost our annual iron ore production capacity up to 40 million tonnes in 2025 through the start-up of a new iron ore

Alliance is going to launch production of concrete and dust-pressed tile in the Lipetsk region (Central). The production lines' capacities will be 30-50m2 of tile and 30m2 of concrete per hour. The required investment is estimated at RUB 10 million (€222,129.04) with RUB 1.5 million coming from Alliance's internal funds and the rest will be borrowed.

The company was set up ten months ago.

Shymkentcement (a part of Italian Italcementi Group) will invest €58.12 million in upgrading cement production. A line for the dry processing of cement will be launched. The first lot of clinker will be produced by mid-2015.

VOLMA-Orenburg continues building the gypsum plant in Russia’s central Orenburg region (Volga) with several production facilities, electric power grids, an access road, and a gas pipeline having already been built.

The developer has contracted production equipment suppliers and the equipment is to be supplied between January and May 2014.

The plant is expected to be launched in late 2014 and to reach its design capacity in early 2015. At first, the plant will open up 200 new jobs, and another 800 jobs

France's national ready-mix concrete union (SNBPE) presented Holcim Bétons France with the socio-educational and recreational facilities award during the awards ceremony at the Salon des Maires event for its work using Articimo decorative concrete in the Velotte area of Besançon.

Holcim Bétons France used the concrete to create a rest and relaxation area for cyclists with outdoor games, a water source and a shelter.

Eurocement Group is going to process municipal solid waste (MSW) at its plant in Podgorensky community in the Voronezh region (Central). The plant may process 300,000tonnes of MSW/year, which is to be used to make alternative fuel for clinker burning kilns.

Swiss cement firm Holcim is planning expansion in Mexico, after its two main markets in Latin America, Mexico and Brazil, started to show signs that demand will recover.

Holcim is said to be looking at developing more plants in Mexico and restarting operations in Peru. Executives at the company are cautiously optimistic about recovery in Mexico at the beginning of 2014.

Demand for cement in Mexico will increase by about 41%, reaching 48 million tonnes in 2020, according to a Holcim report dating from

During the first half of 2014, Holcim France, specialised in the production of cement, aggregate and concrete, will set up a transport solution that combines rail and river traffic to transport construction materials between quarries in Bayel and the branched terminal installation in Vernou.

ECR, which won the three-year contract, will offer three trains of 1,500-2,500tonnes/week. Once unloaded in Vernou, the materials are then sent to Holcim Bétons by barge.

By 2015-2016, 1 million tonnes could be se

In addition to a grinding mill order earlier this year, Altay Polimetally has also chosen Metso as the supplier of a complete grinding system for its new copper mine in Kazakhstan. The order value is over €30 million.

Altay Polimetally is targeting production of 3 million tonnes/year, and including host rock, 10 million tonnes. The plant is scheduled to begin operation last quarter 2014. Metso says its solution will ensure that Altay reaches this target.

“Metso has designed this grinding system as a s

Credit Suisse Group AG's shareholding in Chinese cement producer China Shanshui Cement Group increased to 5.02%, equivalent to 141.29 million shares after the acquisition of 11.671 million additional shares. The transaction was settled at an average price of HKD 3.40 (€0.32) per share, totalling to HKD 39.66 million.

Cementir, the Italian cement and construction materials group, has told the unions that it is to close down the hot production area in its Taranto plant by the end of December 2013.

This is largely due to the drop in demand from the construction sector as well as a decrement in supply of slag to Ilva, the local steelmaker whose activity remains also uncertain.

Cementir's activity reduction will impact its 98 staff at the plant as 56 of them will not be needed any longer. The facility's nominal product

In Morocco, prestressed concrete specialist Sadet has inaugurated its latest production plant.

The 20,000m² site is built on nine hectares of land in Sebt Ezzinate (Tangier) and will produce various concrete products used in the construction industry, including slabs and beams.

The factory represents an overall investment of MAD 263.80 million (€23.50 million). Roughly 60 indirect jobs and 80 direct jobs were created.

Moscow will host MosBuild 2014 Building & Interiors Exhibition in April 2014. The exhibition will have three sectors: Building & Interiors (1-4 April 2014, Expocentre); Fenestration (1-4 April 2014, V.V.C.) and Cersanex (15-18 April 2014, Expocentre).

Building and finishing materials, design services, and design equipment will be exhibited. BASF, TechnoNIOL, Ruukki RUS, AGC Glass Europe, and Kerama Marazzi are on the exhibitor list. The event will host several conferences and a forum.

According to Bruno Martinet, the managing director of the French Federation for Tiles and Bricks (or FFTB), the French tile and brick market is expected to drop 5% by late 2013 from turnover of €919 million in 2012 while 2014 is expected to bring a drop of 3% to 5%.

The brick market is mostly concerned with new construction, a segment that is less dynamic than renovation.

The FFTB has 96 members, 500 direct jobs and production of 4.7 million tonnes in 149 factories throughout France. Tile represents 5

The Italcementi Group has held a ground-breaking ceremony for a new kiln line at its Shymkent Cement in south Kazakhstan.

Plant managing director, Gabriel Morin, said the capacity of the new dry-process cement line would be 1.2million tonnes/year. The project will take 20 months to complete, Kazakhstan General Newswire reported.

“The new cement making technology line is expected to produce first clinker in mid-2015. After the launch of the new line, the old kiln will be shut down,” Shymkent Cement's g