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The Beumer Group has celebrated the official opening of the new factory building in Thailand, located in the eastern Chachoengsao Province. In a festive ceremony, the German ambassador Rolf Schulze congratulated the company on completion of the construction and praised the commitment shown by the Beckum-based family company in the Kingdom of Thailand. The newly-built premises covering 2,000m² will allow Beumer to increase its production for the Asian market. Dr Christoph Beumer, chairman and CEO of the grou

Turnover of Holcim (Deutschland) fell from €392 million to €378 million in 2012 while operating result changed from a profit of €28.8 million to a loss of €29.9 million. In the binding agents segment, sales in terms of value and volume were said to be disappointing but in the aggregate segment, sales in terms of volume met expectations. The ready-mix concrete unit failed to meet expectations and operating profit was poor.

The final preparations for bauma 2013 are now underway and ABE takes a look at some of the new equipment that will be launched at the show. With over 3,250 exhibitors and in excess of 420,000 visitors expected, bauma 2013 will reconfirm its position as the largest trade fair in the world. Work on placing the new equipment on the 555,000m² showground is now reaching the final stages. But the trend for these new launches isn’t always bigger is better, as there is a growing move towards improving efficiency an

A company’s new machines are being used at a quarry operation in north-west England. Civil engineering, plant hire and road haulage group P & L Barton has invested in two new Powerscreen mobile crushing plants. The company, based in Carnforth, north (County) Lancashire, England, sourced the XA400S and 1000 Maxtrak crushers from appointed distributor Blue Machinery Central. Currently working at a quarry in County Cumbria, north-west England, they join a fleet of excavators and hydraulic attachments, bulldoze

Finning has supplied three new Caterpillar machines to the Hillhouse Quarry Group. This is said to provide a solution to reduce the size of its fleet by two units, while retaining the same level of productivity at its quartz-dolerite quarry in Ayrshire, Scotland. Following multiple onsite surveys conducted by Finning, and based on prior experiences that the Hillhouse Group had with Cat equipment, it has invested in two Cat 775G off-highway trucks and a Cat 390D hydraulic excavator replacing smaller ADTs and

Few would argue against the benefits of restoring excavated quarry sites in such a way that it enhances nature conservation. However, the UK Environment Agency took some convincing that a request to import over two million tonnes of infill material was not an excuse to dump waste and effectively use old quarries as landfill sites. Engineering and environmental consultancy Wardell Armstrong used its expertise in waste legislation, planning and permitting to secure bespoke environmental permits for the restor

As the top aggregates producer in Europe, Germany is making the most of its strong position to ensure that it continues to lead the way out of the recession. Industry commentators agree that the overall economic prospects still look positive and that the improving employment situation plus favourable financing conditions are helping to incentivise home ownership, which can only be good for Germany’s historically healthy construction market. (Existing buildings, however, still account for more than 75% of th

European Associations are working cooperatively to ensure a well informed and adequately prepared supply chain capable of implementing the European Union (EU) Directive on identification and traceability of explosives for civil uses by the revised deadline of April 2015. The Commission Directive 2008/43/EC setting up a system for the identification and traceability of explosives for civil uses is part of the series of measures to help combat terrorism and adopt measures to strengthen the control of explosiv

FLSmidth has received an order worth approximately INR 1,900 million (approximately DKK 200 million/€27 million) from a leading Indian steel producer, Tata Steel, to supply two pipe conveyors for transport of 6 million tonnes/year of iron ore over a distance of around 9km from the steel company's Khondbond mines to the railway loading point at Joda in the state of Odisha, located on the east coast of India. The scope of supply includes two pipe conveyors with a total conveying capacity of 1,400tonnes/hour.

The coal-rich province of Xinjiang, China, is under pressure with increasing demand for energy, with Volvo Construction Equipment’s new G-Series wheeled loaders said to be helping one mine deliver on its promises. Xinjiang is the largest autonomous region of China, located in the north-west. The vast 1.6 million km2 province borders Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India, and it boasts a varied landscape, one that ranges from ice-capped mountains, flowing river

Leading international equipment services specialist Zero48 is Terex Construction’s first dealer in West Africa. The move is said to further strengthen Terex Construction’s global dealer network and to meet customer needs in the region. Zero48, through its subsidiary company, IBS, will distribute Terex construction equipment in Guinea and will initially focus on selling Terex articulated and rigid trucks, and other construction products, with a plan to distribute more of the Terex range in the future. With G

Concrete will be one of the major components of Europe’s largest construction project, Crossrail. As 1,000tonne tunnel boring machines (TBMs) work on excavating the 42km of new Crossrail tunnels (21km of twin-bore) under central London, some 250,000 concrete segments to line them must be produced at two special factories. The TBMs will bore the tunnelled section of the 118km rail line, linking Maidenhead and Heathrow in the west with Shenfield and Abbey Wood in the east. When completed, Crossrail will bring

Waste material generated from the quarrying of decorative stone can represent a profitable quality product provided the equipment used is able to contain costs and deliver high productivity. Puglia, a region that boasts one of the most important mining industries in Italy, possesses several districts where quarrying plays a leading role in the local economy. One of the most important is Apricena, site of Apricena Stone, known throughout the world for its aesthetic qualities and hardness. Apricena Stone is a

Located 50km from the capital Doha, Qatari Primary Materials (QPMC) operates one of the world’s largest sand cleaning plants. With temperatures reaching 40°C and 64,000tonnes of aggregate needed to be handled for every export shipment, Volvo Construction Equipment’s wheeled loaders are helping with operations in the gas-rich state. Volvo CE is involved in one of the country’s largest industrial operations, having provided QPMC with a fleet of machines to help the state-owned company meet the needs of both l

With an average compressive strength of around 180Mega-Pascals (MPa), granite is one of the hardest rocks on earth. The granite found in the Boda Quarry near Vrigstad, a small town in southern Sweden, even yields values of more than 300MPa in some cases. This imposes particularly high demands when it comes to processing the material. TJ Gräv, a provider of crushing services from Brandstorp, was contracted to process 40,000tonnes of the material, and being already familiar with German manufacturer Kleemann (

A world-renowned collection of 36 rare and historic Caterpillar machines is to stay in New Zealand. This has been made possible by Ben Gough, executive director of Gough Group, and his sister Gina Satterthwaite. The Canterbury-based brother and sister have secured a deal which will see the machines and associated equipment remain in New Zealand following the sale in Rotorua of the privately-owned New Zealand Caterpillar Experience. The Experience has operated for the last seven years, and is well-known worl

Most quarries use static or dynamic weighing systems to manage the quality of the products they produce. These are used to measure the quantity of material or finished products such as aggregates that are delivered to customers. Established equipment is regularly joined by new state-of-the-art products that make the weighing job easier, quicker and more effective. For example, Finnish company Tamtron has just launched a self-developed and self-manufactured Power wheeled loader scale. The company, which says

Much of the talk at this year’s bauma exhibition in Munich, Germany will once again be about engine technology. A lot of the new equipment on show will be seen for the first time with EU Stage IIIB/US Tier 4 Interim power under the engine canopy, some previously seen last year at Intermat in Paris. The engine manufacturers themselves will be keen to show that they are already on top of Stage IV/Tier 4 Final emissions standard. Regulators realise that for a major manufacturer changing over in one go to a new

The requirements for building materials, concrete and asphalt have continuously risen in recent years. This has meant that requirements on the gravel, chippings and sand used in their production have also risen. “Since demand for high grade crushed sand and high quality aggregates is also constantly rising, gravel and aggregate plants have to expand and equip their machine pools in order to meet the European standards and directives that require increased use of high quality aggregates,” says BHS-Sonthofen,

Roads, wherever they are, represent major public investment and for this reason are expected to last for a long time. Rapid increases in the number of vehicles and thus a rise in traffic volumes and axle loads produce congestion, wear and tear on structures, along with air pollution and noise emissions. The materials used to construct modern roads, from the sub-base upwards to the asphalt or concrete wear surface have improved vastly over the years, as has the equipment involved. In the Netherlands, Kuiken,