Americas

Cemex-Tec 2020 Award organisers say the event's 10th edition received 1,678 entries - the largest number of projects registered in the Award's history.

The U.S.-based Association of Equipment Manufacturers will host a virtual Workforce Solutions summit 10-12 August, 2020 targeted at c-suite and human resources professionals in the manufacturing industry.

Materials provider LafargeHolcim has been appointed as the exclusive concrete and cement supplier for the Bogotá-Villavicencio road infrastructure project in Colombia.

Frank Squires, washing product specialist at Superior Industries, is retiring after a 60-plus year career in the aggregates industry.

Ritchie Bros. says it has set a new record, selling more than 35,000 equipment items and trucks in 29 online auctions across five countries in five days.

The Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) is launching 'Equipped to Vote', a digital campaign designed to inform and mobilise the 2.8 million men and women of the U.S. equipment manufacturing industry leading up to the general election in the country this November.

Off-highway truck customisation company Philippi-Hagenbuch has started using new SSAB Hardox HiTemp steel in its Hot Slag truck bodies. The new steel is purposely designed to withstand extreme temperature environments, and Philippi-Hagenbuch says that it reduces necessary plate thickness while maintaining the product's service life for increased productivity in processing applications.