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Crushing is a key process in the quarry operation but the choice of mobile or stationary units is no longer a straightforward one of tonnes per hour, Claire Symes reports. In the early days of mobile crushing equipment the desired output was an easy deciding factor between whether a quarry needed the larger volumes offered by stationary equipment or the fast set-up of a mobile unit more.

TechnoAlpin pro air solutions is breaking away from the parent company TechnoAlpin and will be trading in future under the name EmiControls. It has been developing mobile and stationary solutions for optimum dust emission control in demolition work, open-pit mining, recycling plants and industrial applications since 2008.

With almost nine months to go, 91% of the stand space at Hillhead 2012 has already been allocated to exhibitors, including major players such as Volvo, Sandvik, Metso, Terex Group, Finning/Caterpillar, Liebherr and Bell Equipment.

Securing Resources to meet future demand is a key part of Fassa Bortolo's investment in a new quarry in the Brescia region of Italy but it is environmental issues that have guided the design. Claire Symes reports. As you enter the main gates of most quarries, it is clear from the hive of hauling, crushing and screening activity that you are in an active aggregates operation. But this is not the case in one of Italy's newest quarries where the production is carried out deep underground, some 85m below the qu

Bernard Fontana, presently CEO of Aperam, a company recently spun-off from ArcelorMittal, is to assume the position of CEO of Holcim Ltd. He is replacing departing CEO Markus Akermann who will reach retirement age at the end of January, 2012.

Many construction equipment manufacturers will be launching new machines or upgrading existing models this year to comply with the latest emissions regulations. Dan Gilkes takes a look at the new legislation. The quarry and aggregates industry is no stranger to regulation and legislation - from health and safety to site planning, every step of the mineral extraction process is examined and recorded in some way.

JCB hopes to reduce the risk of theft on machines sold in the UK and Ireland with the announcement that 80% of the machines sold in these markets will be fitted with anti-theft devices as standard from this year. According to the company around £1million-worth of equipment is stolen every week in the region and currently just 5% of machines are recovered

Lafarge has acquired a 100% stake in Serbian cement factory Beocinska Fabrika Cementa (BFC) after buying out the company's minority shareholders.

Euro Auctions says that it experienced its best sale results ever at the recent unreserved auction at its site in Leeds, northern England, UK.

Greece-based cement producer Titan Cement has announced that it is to undertake alternative fuel trials at its plant in Bulgaria.

HeidelbergCement has issued a Eurobond under its €10 billion EMTN (Euro Medium Term Note) programme with an issuance volume of €300 million and a maturity date of 15 December, 2018.

Holcim Belgium, the Belgian division of the Swiss cement manufacturer Holcim, has celebrated its 100th anniversary at its Obourg site.

South Africa-based Pilot Crushtec has achieved a new standard that will help to guarantee quality in its manufacturing processes. The crushing, screening, washing and stockpiling equipment company has announced that it has gained ISO:9001:2008 accreditation ahead of schedule. The company received confirmation of its certification from Germany-based audit company TÜVRheinland after an audit of all Pilot's processes and procedures took place during November 2010, without any findings. "We have always known th

Overburden stripping is part of any quarry operation but on some sites this work turns up some interesting artefacts that significantly add to historical knowledge. Often the potential to find archaeological artefacts on a site is known well before any topsoil is stripped from a quarry but sometimes what is unearthed is far more important than anyone could guess. The sheer size of quarries means that the overburden management has the potential to provide a huge window onto previous use of the landscape and

Northern Ireland-based Powerscreen has announced that it has appointed Allen Smith as mining business development manager. The company has said that Smith has over 20 years of experience in the mining industry as well as the quarrying sector. "This is an important new appointment for the company," said Powerscreen global sales and marketing director Pat Brian. "Allen's experience and respect in the mining industry will be an asset to the Powerscreen strategy, which has been evolving into a clear direction f

Packaging specialist Beumer has said that its range of stretch hiding packaging systems offer state of the art pallet packaging to the building materials market. The company has said that its systems are helping to ensure products reach customers in optimum condition as stretch packaging wraps horizontally and vertically for better load stability and better protection.

Metso and the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, have finalised a three-year agreement encompassing joint research and performance evaluations of the VERTIMILL grinding mill developed by Metso.

Lafarge has ranked seventh in the UK’s first-ever league table of ‘green’ organisations, which features more than 2,000 businesses, agencies, hospitals and government units, and which aims to show what progress is being made to cut carbon.

Cemex has produced its one millionth tonne of cement at its new plant in Broceni, west-central Latvia, the largest amount of cement produced and sold per year in the history of Latvia.

Northern Ireland-based Powerscreen has announced that it has appointed Anboni as its new dealer for the sale of its mobile crushing, screening and washing equipment in Sweden. Anboni was established in 2003 and has specialised in the sale of concrete batching plants but will now build on this by offering Powerscreen's products.