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The Mineral Products Association (MPA), the trade association for the UK quarrying and mineral products industry, is to host a Summit to discuss public safety around disused quarries in Great Britain. These sites range from very old workings, sites that have been returned into private ownership after operations have ceased or have been restored for use as a public amenity or nature reserve. Statistically the majority of fatalities and serious injuries involving quarries have occurred in these types of sites

Metso will supply a complete greenfield quarry plant to the Colas Group in France. The large-scale delivery includes primary, secondary and tertiary stations with service maintenance contracts for inspection and extended guarantees. The aggregate produced in the quarry is mainly destined for road construction. The value of the order will not be disclosed. Metso's solution embraces the customer's high health and safety commitment with low environmental impact compared to less modern quarry plants, and the st

In France, Paris Plages is back along the banks of the River Seine for the joy of all Parisians. Every summer, the French capital transforms itself into a tropical oasis: palm trees, water games and deck chairs. And there is even a beach, thanks to the 5,000tonnes of sand delivered by the Lafarge Group. Organised by Paris City Hall, the Paris Plages operation is now settled on the banks of the Seine until 18 August.

Breedon Aggregates, the UK’s largest independent aggregates business, has released its unaudited interim results for the six months ended 30 June, 2013. They show that revenue was £100.2 million compared to £83.0 million for the same period last year, a 21% increase, while underlying EBITDA at £13 million (£9.7 million for same period in 2012) is up 34%. Underlying operating profit at £6.6 million (£3.9 million) is 69% up and the underlying profit before tax at £5.3 million compares to £2.2 million in the

Dutch construction company Ballast Nedam has sold a 100% stake in its Societé d'Exploitation des Carrières d'Yvoir sandstone quarry to Belgian company Group De Cloedt. This is part of its strategy to boost its financial position. The quarry produces 600,000tonnes of sandstone annually.

Albert Manifold will assume the role of group chief executive on 1 January 2014, following the retirement of the current chief executive, Myles Lee, after 32 years with the group. Manifold, an accountant and MBA, is aged 50. He has been a board member and CRH chief operating officer since January 2009. Prior to joining CRH in 1998, he held the position of chief operating officer with a private equity group. He has held a variety of senior positions within CRH, including managing director of the Europe Mater

The quarry in Bagnac-sur-Célé is celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2013. French construction group Colas took over the quarry in 1980 with the creation of the Société des Carrières du Massif Centrale (SCMC), which employs a dozen staff and produces 250,000 tonnes of hard rock per year for turnover of €3.80 million that are destined for the concrete industry, road or railway construction works, artisans, individuals, and building material traders. Some €1.4 million of investments have been spent over thre

Powerscreen has delivered its 100th Warrior 2400 mobile screen to distributor General Engineering Services (Genserv) in Oman. One of Oman’s leading infrastructure companies, Galfar Engineering SAOG, originally requested a scalping plant from Genserv, and required machines capable of providing output capacities ranging from 700-900tonnes/hour and, more importantly, that were mobile, as they planned to use them for roads and building projects all over Oman. The team at Genserv recommended the Warrior 2400 sca

Final approval has been granted by Eric Pickles, Secretary of State at the Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG) for a stone quarry in 80 acres of ancient woodland in County Kent, southern England. The quarry is run by the Gallagher Group. The development of Oaken Wood will be an extension of the existing Hermitage quarry site, which produces Kentish ragstone for building stone and aggregate.

Demolition Services (DSI) and Powerscreen crushing plants are key players in the demolition and recycling of the historic 1 million ft² (93,000m²) Navy Annex seven-building complex to provide for expansion of the Arlington National Cemetery. The 42 acre (17 hectare) site was built in 1941 as a temporary warehouse but was converted to federal office use after Pearl Harbor, and served as Marine Corps headquarters for more than five decades, as well as providing office space for numerous Navy personnel. It al

Romanian construction materials producer AdePlast recorded a turnover of RON 100 million (€22.56 million) in the first half of 2013, up 31% from the same period of 2012. The company's EBITDA also rose by 31% in the first six months of 2013.

The Austrian construction materials company Wienerberger announced that the EBITDA for its brick segment in Europe was €20 million lower than the company's target in the first half of 2013. This was due to the difficult economic conditions and the postponement of construction projects in Europe due to the long winter and heavy rain in May and June 2013. Despite this, Wienerberger remains optimistic for its other segments in 2013. The restructuring measures announced by the company in 2012 were put into effe

Prefabricated concrete solutions specialist Bonna Sabla is adapting its hydraulic engineering division's offering to the requirements of the Grenelle Environment Law. The company is now using resources of mineral origin to produce its prefabricated concrete, and proposing environmentally-friendly solutions to protect biodiversity. It is committed to creating sustainable sanitation networks, storing river water and treating domestic waste water. Bonna Sabla's Cofiroute subsidiary has invested in confinement

Cemex in Latvia is supplying building solutions, including over 80,000 m³ of specialty ready-mix concrete, for major improvements to Riga International Airport, which are expected to be completed in August 2014. Originally built in 1973, the airport is the largest in the Baltic States and serves nearly 5 million people annually. “We are proud to be the partner of choice for this important project which will benefit millions of residents and visitors for many years to come,” says Cemex Latvia Country Directo

McCloskey International is delivering enhanced screening to customers around the world with its latest design, new spiral drum options for the trommel screen line-up. The new option, available on all models, combines the drum incline found in all McCloskey trommels with the enhanced product quality control of a spiral drum. A spiral drum screens in a different way to the standard lift and drop system usually used in a trommel. It is able to prevent ‘“spearing’ where elongated material is lifted and thrown t

Metso will deliver an order consisting of 38 feeders for the major Mexican copper mine Buenavista del Cobre, which is owned by Grupo Mexico. The order will help to double the mine's capacity of copper concentrate by securing prompt copper ore feed flow in the mine extension project. The order value is over €7 million. The belt feeders will be installed at Buenavista del Cobre's Cananea copper mine, located in Sonora, in Mexico. To assist with the installation and future servicing, Metso will open a new, ful

A facility mining and processing non-metallic minerals is opened in the Ingush Republic, Russia. It has 20m³/hour automated concrete mixer and 90m³/hour screening and crushing machine. The investments totalled RUB 149 million (€3.45 million), and the new facility is to provide road metal, sand and concrete to all construction sites in the republic.

Video Included .. Terex Finlay has held its largest ever Customer Open Event at Jim Jamieson’s Quarry, Ellon near Aberdeen in Scotland. The company highlighted all of its new models for both quarrying and recycling applications. More than 300 end users and dealers present from China, Australasia, Russia and CIS states, Africa, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas, saw a total of 13 different models being demonstrated and previewed in both quarry and recycling applications at Jim Jamieson’s, Ardlethen f

Terex Finlay has held its largest ever Customer Open Event at Jim Jamieson’s Quarry, Ellon near Aberdeen in Scotland. The company highlighted all of its new models for both quarrying and recycling applications. More than 300 end users and dealers present from China, Australasia, Russia and CIS states, Africa, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas, saw a total of 13 different models being demonstrated and previewed in both quarry and recycling applications at Jim Jamieson’s, Ardlethen facility. The highli

Basf Construction Chemicals Espana and its tunnels division Meyco Global Underground will supply setting accelerators for the construction of the tunnels on the Zamora-Orense stretch of the Madrid-Galicia high-speed railway line in Spain. Basf is supplying additives for the production of concrete to be used in the tunnels. Since October 2012, all construction companies involved in the project including Geotunel, Nortunel, Vias y Construcciones, Obras Subterraneas and Isolux-Corsan Corvian are using Basf's s