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Elkon's concrete-batching plant for Palestine A Palestinian customer has recently purchased an ELKON concrete-batching plant for its ready-mix business. A representative from the unnamed company visited ELKON's 65,000m production site in Turkey prior to making the order. ELKON has 15 different manufacturing lines with fully automated welding, cutting, grinding and painting robots in its factories. After being impressed with the...

Elkon makes concrete French connection Turkish concrete-batching plant maker Elkon has recently installed and commissioned an ELKOMIX-120 Quick Master for a France-based manufacturer of concrete lego blocks. The customer is said to have placed the order after being impressed with the ELKON-60 Quick Master plant exhibited at the Intermat exhibition in Paris in April 2018. The firm was also said to have appreciated the...

Volvo CE excavators help to meet growing demand for black granite Not many people know or have heard of Chitamba in India, but that all changed in 2008 when a fortune was discovered there black granite. Since then, Chitamba's black granite has become much sought-after around the world. Liam McLoughlin reports. A fleet of machines from Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) is working on a mine in Chitamba, Rajasthan, India, to keep up with the growing...