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CEMEX has announced that the US Department of Energy awarded US$3.2mn to Solar MEAD, a joint project headed by CEMEX, Sandia National Laboratories, and Synhelion, which aims to decarbonise cement production.

Global off-highway power and technology heavyweight Cummins and Internet of Things (IoT) solutions provider Trackunit have announced plans to combine their expertise leveraging advanced engine insights to minimise downtime for construction customers. 

Astec Industries (Astec) will be at CONEXPO-CON/AGG, showcasing its strength in the infrastructure market and its prime position to offer customers a one-stop shop of equipment for the asphalt, concrete, mining, quarrying, forestry, and industrial heating industries.

Global building materials supplier CEMEX has adapted its production process to provide Network Rail with a never-seen-before concrete bearer for a challenging rail replacement project at Lewisham Station in London, UK. 

Sustainability is a huge topic across the construction and quarrying industry – not just in terms of what can be achieved tomorrow via carbon-free hydrogen fuel cells and hydrogen internal combustion engines of machine fleets, but today, through the use of smart technology to make jobsites more efficient and sustainable by getting work done right first time, every time

Continental is launching its ‘Make Power Smart’ smartphone app for conveyor belts onto the European market.

Producers of essential materials for UK infrastructure projects have welcomed news that an urgent review of national planning policy for major projects is to be carried out.

McLanahan Corporation has entered into an agreement to purchase Diefenbach, a filtration, water and tailings management company based out of Northern Italy. 

CEMEX says it is the first company to introduce lower carbon Cement & Concrete in the United Arab Emirates.

The fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic has affected demand for aggregates in China this year but CAA, the country’s aggregates association, says rapid development in urbanisation projects is supporting demand in the country’s quarrying sector

Holcim is launching what it says is Europe’s first calcined clay cement operation at its Saint-Pierre-la-Cour plant in France.

Barbara Gregorio, divisional product marketing manager Innovative Energies and Digital Solutions, Atlas Copco Power and Flow, discusses how portable power solutions are part of a wider solutions portfolio helping to achieve more sustainable quarries

The first Doosan DX1000LC-7 100-tonne crawler excavator in Europe began work on 31st January 2023 at an oil shale mine at North Kiviõli in Estonia, run by Kiviõli Keemiatöötus (KKT), part of the Alexela Group.

Construction output in Sub-Saharan Africa grew by an estimated 1.7% in 2022, compared to a growth of 3.2% registered in 2021. The industry is forecast to record growth of 3.2% in 2023. However, significant downside risks persist, most notably the rising debt levels across the region, says GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.

UK retail sales of construction and earthmoving equipment continued to show very strong growth at the end of 2022. Sales in Q4 were 20% above the same quarter in 2021, and as a result, sales for the full year were 2.9% above 2021 levels, reaching 37,400 units. By exceeding 2021 levels, which were higher than the peak levels reached in 2018 and 2019, sales in 2022 were the highest since before the financial crash in 2008. As reported in previous updates, this means that last year saw equipment sales at record levels.

Metso Outotec is in legal proceedings with MW High Tech Projects UK Limited (MW) in connection with three waste-to-energy plants in the UK.

CEMEX has announced that Volvo Trucks has supplied it with the world’s first fully electric and zero-emission heavy concrete mixer truck at a joint event in Berlin, Germany. 

German construction machinery manufacturers are bullish in the face of challenges. Gains in sales at the end of 2022 saw the firms increase turnover by 3% in real terms for 2022, according to figures collated by the German manufacturing association, the VDMA.

The not-seasonally adjusted US construction unemployment rate dropped 0.6% in December 2022 from a year ago, down from 5% to 4.4%, according to a state-by-state analysis of US Bureau of Labor Statistics data released by Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC).