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For over 20 years, UK company JPE Holdings has grown to develop its business of supplying aggregates, groundworks and site clearance, becoming one of the Midlands region’s leading suppliers to the construction industry. In the winter of 2010, the company invested in a CDE mobile washing plant for operation at their Elford Quarry site in Tamworth, England, which included an M2500 E3, an A400 Aquacycle Thickener and an Aggmax 150 for feeding, screening, sandwashing and stockpiling. This equipment has enabled

Although markets for recycled aggregates have fallen during the recession, the sector still accounts for nearly 20% of the total aggregates market in the UK. In its latest survey on the industry, the marketing consultancy, BDS Marketing Research (www.bdsmarketing.co.uk) has identified around 530 static sites in the country with an aggregates recycling plant, and together these plants produced around 37 million tonnes in 2011.

Thomas Schulz, president of Sandvik Construction and member of the group executive management, is leaving Sandvik for a position as CEO with the global engineering company FLSmidth & Co based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Schulz has worked for Sandvik since 2001 and held various positions within the construction business.
"I want to express my sincere gratitude for Thomas Schulz's contributions to Sandvik and wish him the best of luck in his new position", says Sandvik's president and CEO, Olof Faxander. The sea

Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) is to invest $10 million (€7.6 million) in the creation of a new exclusive manufacturing facility in Brazil for its SDLG-branded machines. This investment in Pederneiras, São Paulo State, will also see a separate legal entity established, called SDLG America Latina. The new facility will share the site of Volvo CE’s existing manufacturing complex in Pederneiras, but be separate and solely for the manufacture of SDLG machines. Work on the new factory has started, and w

Cemex is supplying special ready-mix concrete for the 4,900m³ Quartier 17 reconstruction project in the historic city centre of Stralsund, a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site on the Baltic coast of Germany. This immensely complex enterprise is designed to match neighbouring historic structures giving the impression of a flourishing medieval town. To complete this challenging task, Cemex has been in close collaboration with the project’s contractor as well as a team of archeologists. Formerly a very densel

Fund-raisers have dreamt up a colourful way of raising at least £75,000 (€92,000) for the NSPCC () in County Staffordshire, England, by auctioning off JCB machines in eye-catching shades other than traditional yellow. The two machines, a golden skid steer loader and a wheeled loader, which will be painted in a colour of the auction winner’s choice, are up for grabs on www.jcbauction.com. The auction runs until Monday, 17 December. The skid steer was bought by JCB’s kind-hearted UK dealer network and donate

Deputy CEO Hans-Christian Schneider will assume overall responsibility for the Ammann Group on 1 January 2013,extending the tradition followed over the past 143 years by this Swiss family and company into the sixth generation. He takews over from current CEO Ulrich Meyer, who has been in charge of the Ammann Group since September 2010. Ulrich Meyer will join the Board of Directors of the Ammann Group in January 2013.

The Mineral Products Association (MPA) is supporting Phase 2 of the Million Ponds Project, coordinated by Pond Conservation. The project is using pond creation to put back into the landscape a scare natural resource, clean, unpolluted water, which is vital for protecting life in freshwater. Clean water has been all but eliminated from large parts of the British landscape with 95% of freshwaters damaged by pollution in large parts of the country. The MPA’s members extract minerals (sand, gravel and rock) es

In the UK, the Mineral Products Association (MPA) and Bumblebee Conservation Trust (BBCT) have established a new partnership to help conserve bees and help them thrive. A new Memorandum of Understanding between the organisations will be the basis of partnership working that will include facilitating access to quarry sites for monitoring, advising and educating quarry staff on measures that help bees including creation of suitable habitat, and training quarry staff to recognise and survey their sites for bee

HeidelbergCement has commissioned a new cement mill with an annual capacity of 1 million tonnes at its Tema cement grinding plant in Ghana. Capital expenditure was €16 million. With around 300,000 inhabitants, Tema is one of the most important coastal cities of the country, and is 25km east of the capital Accra. HeidelbergCement’s subsidiary, Ghacem, operates two cement grinding plants in the coastal cities of Tema and Takoradi, and with the commissioning of the new mill, the company increased its cement g

SteelPhalt, a unit of Harsco’s global Metals and Minerals Group, has opted for a Volvo L150G loading shovel for its steel slag asphalt producing plant in Rotherham, County Yorkshire, England. It has a bespoke 4.2m³ rehandling bucket; automatic greasing system and RDS 8000i weigh loader. “We’ve operated Volvo shovels, dump trucks and excavators for many years,” says asset manager Mark Watson. “The L150G takes over as our new frontline machine from a six-year old L150E that has clocked up over 30000 hours.”

Terex Washing Systems (TWS) Dual Power control system is now available on all versions of the Terex M-Range wash plant. These include the M1400, M1700 and M2100 mobile rinser plants, and the system, using both diesel-hydraulic and electrical-hydraulic power drives, allows the user to start, transport and operate the machine using the standard diesel engine. In position, a suitable electrical power source means the machine can be plugged in to use the electrical-hydraulic power drive, offering reduced runnin

A medium-sized family-run company that has close links with the quarrying industry is celebrating 125 years in business. According to the memoirs of Carl Haver junior (1884-1976), which the son of the founder of the company (Haver & Boecker), Carl Haver, wrote in the 1960s: “If someone had told my father in the early years of his entrepreneurial activity that his company would at some stage have branches abroad, he would probably have smiled in disbelief.” With his cousin, Eduard Boecker, Haver established

Italian Company MB has seen its products used at various sites in Brazil in preparation for the 2014 football World Cup. Following a partnership with Grupo Monte Sinai Locação, MB’s crusher and screening buckets have been used during construction of the Arena Pernambuco stadium in the city of Recife, eastern Brazil, which is being carried out by Construtora Norberto Odebrecht. It was Odebrecht who contacted Grupo Monte Sinai for the hire of its MB crusher buckets. Following initial contact between Grupo Mon

ZF Off-Road Vehicles division has unveiled a number of new developments at a test day at the Hacker Quarry, near Passau, Germany. Vehicles including dump trucks, wheeled loaders and mobile excavators were tested, and one of the focal point of was the ZF cPOWER stepless transmission for wheeled loaders, where driving comfort and high efficiency were the principal aspects taken into consideration by ZF engineers during the development. “The transmission ensures optimum power transfer continuously: that is ove

End-of-life strategies for asphalt pavements will be highlighted and debated at an upcoming conference.
Although sustainable construction processes that conserve natural resources are well recognised within the asphalt industry, practices for the recycling of asphalt vary across Europe. The matter will be discussed during the Re-Road final conference organised by FEHRL (Forum of European National Highway Research Laboratories) on 13 November, 2012 at the THON Hotel in Brussels, Belgium.

Many leading companies have been improving their asphalt recycling systems and putting them to good use in eco-conscious projects. Guy Woodford reports. The reuse of old asphalt is an absolute must in this day and age The reuse and the recycling of reclaimed asphalt pavements (RAP) started over 30 years ago, and in many European countries the use of RAP is common practice, says the European Asphalt Pavement Association. "Asphalt is 100% reusable/recyclable and for sustainable development its reuse/recycling

In response to the mining and quarrying sectors’ concerns over pump and engine damage in situ, Pioneer Pump has devised a solution to protect its customers’ pump-sets. Based on Pioneer Pump’s original Rock & Rain protection, consisting of a painted carbon steel roof over both the engine and the pump, the new design aims to provide added protection to the sides of the pump-set, reducing repair costs and increasing equipment longevity.

Water removal in quarries is essential for good working, but much of the water is reusable within the site. Patrick Smith reports. Rubislaw Quarry in Aberdeen, Scotland, was opened in 1740, and during its 200-year lifespan an estimated six million tonnes of granite were excavated. The site, credited with giving Aberdeen its famous Granite City name (many buildings are constructed from the material), left one of the deepest man-made holes in Europe. When quarrying ceased, so too did daily pumping, and in the

Maintenance is not the exclusive domain of fitters and mechanics. It is also the responsibility of almost all workers in every sector and is carried out in almost every working environment, says the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (http://osha.europa.eu) in its e-facts series. Defining maintenance, the organisation says it is working on something to keep it in a functioning and safe state and preserving it from failure or decline. “The ‘something’ could be a workplace, work equipment, or means