Quarry Products

With a history already spanning 10 decades, one UK sand quarry is on the verge of securing its future for another 20 years. Claire Symes reports.…
At the end of 2011, revenues of the Portuguese cement company Cimpor in Brazil should account for 25% of the company’s total. The total operating…
In partnership with waste specialists Ikos and Etares, French cement producer Lafarge started up a production unit for secondary recovered fuel in Le…
Lithuanian cement manufacturer Akmenes Cementas has reported revenues of €24.8 million in the first half of 2011, up 29% from the same period of 2010…
Whitwell Quarry has been described as a two-in-one quarry because its products are put to very different uses, Patrick Smith reports Shane Tompkin…
Aggregate prices seem to be stable in Europe despite the financial crisis of the last year. Claire Symes talks to Metso Minerals' Luis Santos about…
Rope Access has won a contract for inspection and scanning of Stockholm’s Norra Länken's concrete tunnel, part of a major road project. Norra Länken…
In the first half of 2011, the net profit cement company Iskitimcement, Russia, a unit of the RATM holding company, totalled €773,353.44 as against a…
In 2011, the Granit enterprise, based in the Brest region of Belarus, will equip its fifth production line, and its capacity will hit 3.9 million…
French company Fabemi has launched Vertitherm, an insulating concrete block for use in the supporting walls of individual houses or small apartment…