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German machine hire specialist Borchers & Speer recently purchased 90 new Terex wheeled loaders and midi-crawler excavators to meet the needs of its customers. The machines will be used across its 15 branches in the German states of Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lower Saxony, Brandenburg and Saxony-Anhalt, as well as in Bremerhaven. Siegfried Speer, CEO and one of the founders of the Kiel-based company, said: “The Terex wheeled loaders are the perfect machines for us. They offer everything th

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Italian cement manufacturer Italcementi is investing € 150 million on the upgrade of its plant in Rezzato, northern Italy. The firm says that new cutting edge technology could cut the site’s production costs by up to 23%, and CO2 emissions by 75%. The plant is expected to become operational by the end of 2014, with no job cuts.

Rapid International has launched a new fully weighed mobile continuous mixing plant, the Rapidmix400CW, into the USA. The Rapidmix continuous mixing plant is now offering full weighing options for all materials, aggregates, cement and water. Measurement by weight is a critical requirement of specifications and the Rapidmix400CW offers record keeping that is automated, precise and detailed. The new Rapidmix400CW model now incorporates a 1,200mm belt conveyor between the aggregate hopper and the continuous m

Titan Machinery Bulgaria, the recently appointed Case Construction Equipment distributor, has been awarded a Gold Medal and Diploma for innovation in construction equipment at the Plovdiv International Technical Fair 2012. The prize was awarded for the Case 721F wheeled loader, which took centre stage on the company’s stand at the exhibition. Titan Machinery says its first visit to the International Technology Fair in Plovdiv was a huge success, with the latest crawler excavators, backhoe loaders, skid ste

Belgium’s official Hitachi dealer, Luyckx, celebrated its 60th anniversary with its largest ever open house event, which attracted more than 15,000 visitors.
A total of 100 machines were on display at the two-day gathering, which also marked Luyckx’s 30th year as a Hitachi dealer. These included several new Zaxis-5 models for customers to test drive, as well as the ZH200 hybrid and EX1900-6 mining excavators. Managing director Jos Luyckx said: “Our focus was on the operators, the engineers and their famil

The Illinois CancerCare Foundation in Peoria, USA, will be the recipient of a benefit effort that was featured at the world’s largest mining trade show, as Dust Control Technology announced the introduction of its newest equipment design. The company displayed the massive DustBoss DB-100 at MINExpo 2012 with one specially-painted model available for sale. All profits from that unit will be donated in honour of Barry Brown, a founding partner of DCT who lost his battle with cancer in 2010.
“The DB-100 dus

AB R&S Sundvik, a Finnish crushing contractor, is one of the first in the world to use Metso’s newest jaw crusher model, Nordberg C120. After more than 4,000 working hours and over 500,000tonnes of crushed materials, the family company says it has found the C120 a highly reliable and productive tool.

The Liebherr Group has acquired concrete pump manufacturer Waitzinger, based in Neu-Ulm, Germany. The Waitzinger takeover completes Liebherr's product range in the concrete technology sector. Waitzinger Baumaschinenwas founded in 1991, and today employs a staff of nearly 60 in Neu-Ulm, specialising in the development and production of truck-mounted concrete pumps, trailer concrete pumps and truck mixer concrete pumps. These products will now also be distributed via Liebherr's international sales and servic

The first ever Cemex global aggregates conference took place in Manchester, north-west England, with a visit to the largest Cemex UK quarry, Dove Holes, in Buxton, County Derbyshire. Thirty eight delegates from 14 countries discussed key issues of health and safety, operations, commercial and trading, reviewing the global as well as the local market and the latest industry and Cemex developments.

JCB today unveiled plans to expand its manufacturing operations in India by investing £62 million (€76 million)in a new world-class construction equipment factory on a 70 acre site in Jaipur, Rajasthan. The company, celebrated its 67th birthday by announcing the signing of a land purchase agreement for a manufacturing facility in MWCJL, Jaipur, marking the beginning of a new expansion phase for JCB India, which is said to be the market leader for construction equipment in India.

For his second look at major quarries in the UK, Patrick Smith visits a ‘flagship quarry’ with history on its doorstep Steeped in history, the Priory Church of Saint Mary and Saint Hardulph has a dramatic setting. The church, which has a history dating back over 1,300 years, is perched on top of a hill, its sides having been dug away over many years through quarrying. Not any more. True, it stands proudly at the top of Breedon Hill in central England looking down over two Breedon Aggregates’ quarries a hund

Tarmac’s restoration at a long-established quarry in England is helping the site harness its biodiversity potential Located in County North Yorkshire, England, Scorton Quarry is a busy and complex operational site which extracts, processes and sells approximately 450,000tonnes of sand and gravel each year. In 2008, Tarmac began Phase 1 of an ambitious programme to restore 30 hectares of the site. Since then, it has carried out significant work, transforming the landscape and adopting a grassland management

Tarmac’s restoration at a long-established quarry in England is helping the site harness its biodiversity potential Located in County North Yorkshire, England, Scorton Quarry is a busy and complex operational site which extracts, processes and sells approximately 450,000tonnes of sand and gravel each year. In 2008, Tarmac began Phase 1 of an ambitious programme to restore 30 hectares of the site. Since then, it has carried out significant work, transforming the landscape and adopting a grassland management

Tarmac’s restoration at a long-established quarry in England is helping the site harness its biodiversity potential Located in County North Yorkshire, England, Scorton Quarry is a busy and complex operational site which extracts, processes and sells approximately 450,000tonnes of sand and gravel each year. In 2008, Tarmac began Phase 1 of an ambitious programme to restore 30 hectares of the site. Since then, it has carried out significant work, transforming the landscape and adopting a grassland management

According to Oficeman, the Spanish association of cement producers, during the first nine months of 2012 demand for cement in Spain decreased by 34.6% compared to the same period the previous year to 10.6 million tonnes in what is now considered to be the worst crisis of the sector in its history. Demand in September decreased by 38% and accounted for the annual outputs of just one of the 35 plants operating in Spain. Under these circumstances producers adjusted outputs by -28.1% to 12.61 million tonnes du

Danish group FLSmidth is reported to have been granted a €130 million loan from the Nordic Investment Bank (NIB). The company will use the money for financing of research and development activities, mainly for new products, optimisation of raw materials and fuel consumption, and reduction of hazardous emissions.
The loan accounts for half the sum that will be spent on the programme that will take place in 2013-2015.

Irish company Kemek, half-owned by building materials group CRH, reported a decline by 15% in revenue year-over-year to €13.20 million in the fiscal year ended December 2011 from €15.50 million in the previous year.
Pre-tax profit of the industrial explosives company dropped 33% to €812,000 from €1.2 million as the firm incurred EUR 1.57mn non-cash depreciation costs. Accumulated profit amounted to EUR 10mn with the number of workforce fell to 44 people from the previous 55 people in 2011.

An innovative higher apprenticeship qualification developed by the University of Derby Corporate (UDC), England, and industry experts has received a nomination for a prestigious Lord Stafford Award. The consortium, comprising UDC, Hanson UK, the Institute of Quarrying (IQ) and the Mineral Products Qualification Council (MPQC), has been shortlisted for an Open Collaboration Award. The team will be competing against the University of Birmingham for the accolade, which celebrates innovation through business an

Weir Minerals has launched its first service centre in Hungary to provide increased support to its growing customer base in the country, as well as in Romania and the former Yugoslavia. The centre is in Tatabánya, north Hungary, and is well placed for the motorway network allowing rapid access to customer locations around the country and beyond. As well as providing a location for off-site repair and maintenance works by a team of engineers permanently based at the centre, the site will also hold strategic