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Barton Plant’s first wheeled loader from Bell Equipment has been delivered following an on-site demonstration. The loaders have been available in the UK for only four years, and County Northamptonshire, England-based Barton Plant, part of The Bennie Group, bought the Bell L1806E wheeled loader primarily to operate in its recycling and landfill operations. It followed a demonstration of the larger Bell L2106E at the group’s aggregates company Peter Bennie on site at Cauldon Low Quarry. The loader will work i

A new device that promises to enhance safety and reliability for the earthmoving industry has been launched by Miller International. The Cramlington, Newcastle, north-east England-based manufacturer of buckets and couplers, unveiled Miller Mate at the inaugural Plantworx construction equipment show at Stoneleigh Park, County Warwickshire, England. Miller Mate is an in-cab device that is said to simplify the safe and correct operation of a quick coupler during the attachment changeover process. It replaces t

Barton Plant’s first wheeled loader from Bell Equipment has been delivered following an on-site demonstration. The loaders have been available in the UK for only four years, and County Northamptonshire, England-based Barton Plant, part of The Bennie Group, bought the Bell L1806E wheeled loader primarily to operate in its recycling and landfill operations. It followed a demonstration of the larger Bell L2106E at the group’s aggregates company Peter Bennie on site at Cauldon Low Quarry. The loader will work i

The first Plantworx equipment exhibition, which was held in Stoneleigh, near Coventry, UK, from 14–16 May, had a total attendance of 11,696 people. The number of unique visitors came to 9,445 people. The Plantworx team says it was delighted with the high quality of those attending, with 60% of visitors pre-registering for the event. “The British weather was true to form with torrential rain for the best part of two-days, but the sun did make an appearance on day three,” says the Construction Equipment Assoc

Construction and building materials company Holcim Srbija says it has opened its new concrete factory in Dobanovci, Serbia. Holcim Srbija invested €2 million in the new plant, and will invest a further €4 million by the end of 2013. The factory's capacity will be 100,000tonnes per annum, the majority of which will be launched on the domestic market. In the last decade, the company has invested €131 million in the Serbian market.

IronPlanet has appointed Davide Di Paola as director of trading, and he joins from Compangnia Generale Trattori, a Caterpillar dealer in Italy where he was sales manager in the used construction machinery division. Matt Bousky, vice president of business development, mining and cranes at IronPlanet, said: “I am delighted to welcome Davide Di Paola to IronPlanet. With over 12 years of experience working in the global construction machinery industry, Davide is the perfect addition to IronPlanet’s global marke

Support for the Nature After Minerals (NAM) programme in recent years has helped the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) , one half of the programme partners, alongside Natural England, to successfully bid for funding from the European Union’ss Interreg IVB North West Europe Programme. Now until June 2015, NAM (through the RSPB) will be one of seven partner organisations working across north-west Europe as part of a new project, whose aim is to engage in collaborative partnership working across

Cramlington, north-east England-based Miller Groundbreaking won orders of the value of £200,000 (€237,000) after attending the inaugural UK plant exhibition Plantworx 2013 at Stoneleigh Park, County Warwickshire, England. The Plantworx show is the UK's new biennial event for the construction industry, and attracting in excess of 10,000 visitors and with over 100,000m² of live construction equipment, it will features construction applications and working machinery.

Cemex's strategy to reduce carbon dioxide emissions has seen its plants in Germany achieve a substitution rate for alternative fuels of 82.6% in April 2013. During the month, the firm's Kollenback plant substituted the use of 12,000tonnes of coal for alternative fuels, such as industrial, agricultural and municipal waste. The substitution rate for that plant is over 94% per day. In 2012 the company is said to have managed to consolidate its leadership in the use of alternative fuels with a global substituti

Italian cement manufacturer Italcementi has reopened the five-year senior bond originally launched on 21 February 2013. While the bond was originally valued at €350 million this has now been extended by an additional €150 million. The issue is being managed by UniCredit, Natixis, BNP Paribas, Banca IMI and Credit Agricole CIB.

In the first quarter of 2013, Titan Cement of Greece posted a 19% rise in its revenues, to €51 million in comparison with the corresponding period in 2012. Titan also posted an EBITDA loss of €2 million from €12 million profits as well as a net loss of €17 million from €0.2 million profits. At group level, its revenues rose by 8%, to €243 million while its EBITDA dropped by 29%, to €24 million compared with the same period last year.

Danish group FLSmidth has been awarded a contract for the construction of a cement factory in Akoga, Equatorial Guinea. The order from Grupo Abayak Akoga Cemento is valued at just over DKK 500mn (€67 million). Capacity of the plant, which is scheduled to be taken into operation by 2016, will be 3,000tonnes of cement per day.

Cemex UK has launched a new book, A Gift of Nature, at a reception in London. The book is the 20th in Cemex’s conservation book series, an initiative dating back to 1993, and one that was launched on the back of the United Nations Rio Earth Summit in 1992 as part of a strategy to help conserve the world’s natural resources. Cemex says it recognises that as a leading construction solutions provider the need to balance the production of building materials with the protection and maintenance of a sustainable e

Lafarge has signed an agreement to raise €200 million through capital increase subscribed by Baring Private Equity Asia, and representing a 14% minority stake in its Indian subsidiary, Lafarge India. The transaction, which is subject to the approval of local regulatory authorities, will accelerate Lafarge’s growth plans in India in all its product lines: cement, aggregates and concrete. Lafarge says India is an important market for the group which has been present in this fast-evolving market for the past 1

Case Construction Equipment has launched the new F Series wheeled loaders in India. Launched worldwide during 2012, the company says the new F Series offers Indian customers fast acceleration performing cycle times, high travel speeds and productivity, together with reduced fuel consumption. The two new loaders, the 721F and 821F, run an FPT Industrial 6.7litre Tier 3 engine. The Case four-mode programmable power control, offering Economy, Standard, Auto and Max settings, provides operators with increased

In response to growing demand from the South African quarry and mining market, Measurement Devices Ltd (MDL) and Optron have teamed up to establish a product service and repair capability. The facility is based at the Centurion head office of Optron which has been an essential partner in providing MDL laser measurement systems to the South African market. Rock face profiling, pre- and post-blast comparisons, as well as volumetric measurements, are essential for quarry and mining applications. “At MDL we b

Hyundai Construction Equipment India (HCEIPL) launched its 210-7v excavator at bC India 2013. The company, a subsidiary of Hyundai Heavy Industries, Korea, says the R210-7v is equipped with mechatronics for optimised fuel consumption and productivity while offering low operating costs in the 20-22tonne class excavators. “The seamless matching of workloads with power requirement saves up to 7-10% fuel per hour and ensures enhanced earnings per dig. The machine is attractively priced in the Indian CE market a

The new Cat 312D/D L Series 2 hydraulic excavator uses a Cat 3054C diesel engine that meets US EPA Tier 2 and EU Stage II emissions regulations. Depending on the regional offering, the new model is available in standard and/or long undercarriage con gurations, and it has operating weights ranging from 12,900kg to 13,900kg. “The 312D/D L Series 2 is designed with low operating costs and achieves excellent performance in the toughest applications, providing customers with a durable, reliable machine that i

Doosan Construction Equipment has launched the new 48tonne DX480LCA and 51tonne DX520LCA large crawler excavators for markets in the Middle East and Africa (MEA). This is the latest phase in the launch of the new LCA generation of Doosan crawler excavators for MEA, replacing the previous SOLAR range, which began in 2012 with the introduction of the new DX- 225LCA, DX300LCA and DX340LCA models and is due to be completed by the end of 2013. The DX480LCA model is a mass excavation machine  tted with an extra-

Associated Construction Company (ASCO), Kuwait has bought a M2500 mobile sand washing plant from CDE Global. The plant is required as a result of the increasing demand for the quality washed sand produced by ASCO and supplied to many local ready-mix concrete companies and construction projects currently underway in Kuwait. It is the  rst M2500 to be supplied to the Gulf region and the purchase was agreed following a visit to see a similar plant in operation in south Beirut, Lebanon, by Khaled Nasr, deputy