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Thai quarry's key roleIn Thailand the Sila Sanon limestone quarry is playing a key role providing high quality aggregates for the country's expanding construction industry. The quarry in Saraburi Province, some 100km...
Middle East aggregates producer Stevin Rock's massive productivity gainsThe Middle East's largest aggregates producer, Stevin Rock, is demonstrating that improved safety management and updated equipment can result in massive productivity gains. Stevin Rock is no stranger...
Engine technology powers dump truck evolutionThere are various ways in which to move overburden and quarried material from the digging face to the crusher, and from primaries to secondary and tertiary crushing and screening operations. For...
DenimoTech's distributors' tough challengeEmpty environmental commitments from governments, falling bitumen quality and the impact of the economic crisis led DenimoTech to ask its global distributors about the challenges of today's markets....
Customers offered great wheeled loader choiceThere are more manufacturers competing in the wheeled loader sector than in almost any other area of the plant market. Dan Gilkes looks at some of the options available. The wheeled loading shovel...
bc India's a Mumbai hitMumbai, India's most populous city and the fourth most populous in the world, has again delivered a successful bC India. The bauma/ConExpo international trade fair for construction machinery,...
Booming Indian aggregates marketThe global market for construction aggregates is expected to increase 5.2%/year to 2015 to 48.3 billion tonnes. While this represents a slower rate of growth than during 2005-2010, reflecting a...
All-consuming maintenanceMaintenance is not the exclusive domain of tters and mechanics. It is also the responsibility of almost all workers in every sector and is carried out in almost every working environment worldwide....