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The general manager of Suez Cement, Bruno Carre, said a wind energy project in Gulf El-Zeit, Egypt, will provide electricity to the company's manufacturing facilities in Egypt.

However, electricity could only be used in the crushing process since flame and heat will be needed in the cooking process.

According to Carre, insufficient gas supplies are one of the greatest challenges faced by the company, has seen its share in the Egyptian market fall 5% from 2012 to 16% at present, representing less than

Sales of cement in Romania for Lafarge, the French firm, fell by 15% in the first nine months of 2013 compared with the same period a year earlier because of lower infrastructure investments and a higher level of competition in the construction market.

Sales of cement and clinker in the first nine months of 2013 for Holcim, the Swiss building materials producer, in Romania fell by 2.4% compared with the same period in 2012 but sales rose by 15.5% in Bulgaria in the same period.

The Finnish construction and infrastructure company, Lemminkäinen, has reported net sales of €751.0 million in the third quarter of 2013, which was up from €716.6 million a year earlier. The company's quarterly operating profit amounted to €61.8 million, which was up from €40.4 million over a year.

Tata Steel Europe has been awarded its first Gold Caterpillar Supplier Quality Excellence Process Award (SQEP), for its global supply of track shoe profiles.

SQEP is Cat's process for assessing and recognising suppliers' quality performance, and combines industry-recognised systems (ISO/TS16949:2002) with demonstrated results. This latest award builds on a strong history of success for the company's Skinningrove, north-east England site, which has received Cat's Silver Award for the last three years.

With eight months to go before Hillhead 2014 opens its doors, the show is already heading towards a complete sell-out.

Event director Jack Berridge explained that “with all the major players like Terex Group, Volvo, Finning/Cat, JCB, Komatsu, Case, Sandvik, Phoenix Parker, Hyundai, Bell, Liebherr, Doosan, Bell, Atlas Copco, Bomag, Wirtgen and McCloskey all rebooking, along with a host of other Hillhead regulars, there was now very little outdoor space left to offer new exhibitors.”

The show will take

The Swiss building materials producer Holcim has announced that its cement and clinker sales in Romania fell by 2.4% in volume in the first nine months of 2013. Also, its sales of aggregates dropped by 21.5% in January-September 2013. Holcim Romania operates two cement factories at Alesd and Campulung, a cement terminal at Turda; 15 concrete plants; three aggregates plants and a cement terminal in Bucharest.

Solihull,England-based Lafarge Tarmac, one of the UK’s leading sustainable building materials group, has marked the official launch of its new headquarters by welcoming Caroline Spelman, Member of Parliament (MP) for Meriden to meet its team.

Portland House, the company’s low-energy headquarters near Birmingham International Airport has undergone a major internal refurbishment to ensure that the offices can now accommodate up to 500 Lafarge Tarmac employees.

Cyrille Ragoucy, Lafarge Tarmac CEO sa

In the third quarter of 2013, Vicat posted sales of €593 million, down 1.5% due to negative currency effects, but up 3.1% at constant scope and exchange rates.

The French construction materials group's Concrete and Aggregates activity grew 10.8% during the period, while its Cement sales fell 1.6% at constant scope and exchange rates.

Vicat's Other Products and Services activity was down 0.7% during the third quarter of 2013.

Ready mixed concrete markets in Great Britain are expected to increase by around 5% during 2013, says industry marketing consultancy, BDS Marketing Research.

The company says that it has been a roller- coaster for the industry in recent years with demand for ready mixed concrete falling by 8% last year thus cancelling out the improvement which the industry enjoyed in 2011.

However, BDS Marketing Research expects that the ready mixed concrete industry can now enjoy steady increases in the market over t

Sandvik Asia has appointed Harinder Jit Singh as its new vice president for Sandvik Construction sales area India.

A Sandvik employee since 1989, latterly filling the role of business line manager for tunnelling, Singh has a wealth of experience of Sandivk’s many different products lines and areas of expertise. Sandvik Asia says that in his new role, Singh will draw on his strong people management skills, and an in-depth understanding of the construction industry within India.

The new Sandvik Constr

HeidelbergCement says it doubled group profit in the third-quarter to €627 million (€318 million same period 2012) following a solid operational performance concealed by currency effects.

The group’s latest figures show cement volumes up 4%; aggregates volumes up 6% and ready-mixed concrete volumes up 4% while the group revenue was stable at €3.9 billion (like-for-like +5%), although operating income before depreciation (OIBD) decreased by 7% to €811 million (like-for-like -2%; excluding prior year gain

British independent concrete supplier Hope Construction Materials has launched a new range of ready-mixed concretes. HOPEFlow is a suite of high-performance, self-compacting concretes and flowing screeds that can be placed in a fraction of the time of conventional concrete, says the company. The range, which is available nationwide, is said to be ideal for any situation where conventional concrete could be used, from foundations and floors to walls and columns.

The new 76 Series vibratory feeder from Eriez, the largest unit in the company’s line-up of compact vibratory feeders, offers the same features and benefits of existing models in a supersize design to meet larger application

requirements.
“Some trays are too heavy for existing models and it is not always practical to use multiple drives,” says Rob Yandrick, product manager—vibratory/screening.
“The 76 Series vibratory feeder offers a solution and fills a void in the market. It satisfies larger applica

Doosan Construction Equipment’s new Stage IIIB compliant DX140LCR-3 15.3tonne reduced tail swing crawler excavator is said to meet an increasing demand for reduced radius machines.

The excavator is powered by the Cummins QSB 4.5 common rail four-cylinder turbo-charged diesel engine featuring maintenance-free Diesel Oxidation Catalyst (DOC) after-treatment technology to meet Stage IIIB engine emission regulations.

The engine runs at 2,200rpm and delivers 11% more power (81kW) and 10% more torque compar

Representatives representatives from 40 different organisations, including the mineral products industry, nature conservation, safety organisations, regulators, mineral planning, emergency services, landowners, sporting and recreational bodies gathered in London on public safety in former quarry sites.

Delegates were invited to better understand the scale of the issue, to share information about current practices, to examine potential opportunities for cooperation and agree actions going forward.

The

A company has gained a new product and saved on the potential outlay of another machine with new plant from Terex Finlay. DJB Haulage replaced its previous combination of a Terex Finlay 683 inclined screen and 595 mobile scalping unit with a new Terex Finlay 684 inclined screen with a four-way split. The new 684 is said to be transforming recycling operations for the business. Under the new process, recycled concrete is fed into a Terex Finlay 883 heavy duty screen to take off fines before over-size clean m

The Construction Products Regulation (CPR), which repeals the Construction Products Directive (CPD), came into force on 24 July, 2011, and applies from 1 July 2013. The CPR aims at clarification of the basic concepts and of the use of CE marking; simplification of the procedures, so as to reduce the costs incurred by enterprises, in particular SMEs, and increased credibility for the whole system. The key concept of the CPR is the declaration of performance (DoP), which is replacing the declaration of confo

Since becoming CEO at FLSmidth, Denmark’s globally renowned supplier of systems, equipment and services to the cement and minerals industries, five months ago, Thomas Schulz has wasted no time in identifying new growth opportunities, as Guy Woodford discovered

Mining and minerals-related production and its associated services are in Thomas Schulz’s “genetic code”.

“I was born in Germany between a big coal mine and a big steel mill. When I came out the front door I saw on my left side the red sky over

Marble has for centuries been used to build some of the most iconic structures in the world. Patrick Smith reports

Little has changed over the years, or is likely to, as the stone - quarried, cut, shaped and polished - is still the building material of choice for impressive buildings such as the Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi; the Uzbekistan parliament building and parts of the new Ground Zero structure in New York. In Makkah (Mecca), Saudi Arabia, the holiest city in the religion of Islam, it is not only s