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Leonie van der Voort is director of Cascade, the Dutch aggregates association, whose 18 member companies account for 90% of the almost 40 million tonnes of high-quality aggregates produced on land and riversides in the Netherlands each year. She spoke to Aggregates Business editor Guy Woodford about the major challenges facing the nation’s aggregates industry and her vital work, not just in the Netherlands but at a wider European level

The Mineral Products Association (MPA) has published a new regional construction and mineral products markets report, giving a detailed assessment of historic, current and future trends across every region of Great Britain.

Major UK construction materials supplier Aggregate Industries has today published the roadmap for its ambitious journey to net zero. 

Epiroc, a global market manufacturer of drill rigs and hydraulic breakers for the quarrying and mining industries, is recognising with three annual awards successful customer cooperation in creating the world’s largest single autonomous mine, safety-enhancing software products and battery-electric vehicles for the construction market.

The construction machinery sector got off to a good start in Italy in 2023, according to the Italian Construction Machinery Union, UNACEA. 

Tillicoultry Quarries has appointed three new directors, the first board appointments out with the family since the 1950s.

The Wacker Neuson Group is claiming a strong financial performance for the start of 2023. The firm says it is benefiting from significant growth, with group revenue up 27.9% in the first quarter to €667.2 million and the EBIT having increased disproportionately by 124.6% to €87.8 million. This last has been due to a one-time effect from the sale of fixed assets.

Heidelberg Materials has announced a 13.1% in Q1 revenue to €4,896mn. There was also a big improvement in results, up by €168mn to €258mn.

Holcim is investing in Coomtech, a cleantech start-up that offers an innovative low-emission kinetic drying technology for raw materials. 

The not-seasonally adjusted US construction unemployment rate dropped 0.4% in March 2023 from a year ago, down from 6% to 5.6%, according to a state-by-state analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data released today by Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC). Thirty-two states had lower unemployment rates over the same period, five were unchanged, and 13 were higher.

Following years of a protracted downturn, the Southern African construction industry is seemingly bouncing back. If demand for construction-type vehicles is anything to go by, says Maretha Gerber, vice president of sales and marketing at Daimler Truck Southern Africa, the industry is on an upward trajectory

Cemex Poland was recently announced as Construction Company of the Year at the country’s Builder Awards. 

The 31st SaMoTer construction machinery exhibition closed on Sunday, 7 May 2023, at Veronafiere after attracting more than 40,000 specialist visitors from 91 countries over the event's five days.

UK engineering contractor BAM has been working with the Antarctic Infrastructure Modernisation Programme (AIMP) on a large infrastructure project in the Antarctic. In this programme, Sandvik was proud to be selected as the partner of choice to supply three mobile crushers and screens for a runway resurfacing project to enable further exploration in the Antarctic. 

Construction output in Eastern Europe is expected to contract by 2% in 2023, as the headwinds that arose last year will continue to weigh on the industry, and firms will struggle to sustain high activity levels, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. 

UK producers of heavy-side building materials, including mineral products such as aggregates, asphalt and concrete, recorded a much-welcomed and broad-based rebound in demand in the first three months of 2023.

Rising costs and supply chain disruption are key challenges faced by Spanish aggregate company operators

Construction activity is expected to slow across much of Northeast Asia this year, with the continued weakness in the real estate sector in China being the most significant drag on growth in the region. As a result, GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, has revised its forecast of Northeast Asian construction output from its prior projection of a 3.8% annual growth to a growth of 2.4% in 2023.

Holcim acquires PASA, a leading roofing and waterproofing solutions producer in Mexico and Central America, with pro forma net sales of $38mn.

TELT has won the 2023 edition of the prestigious and historic SaMoTer International Award, established in 1973.