April 2, 2012
Asamer, the Austrian building materials company, is to use trains instead of trucks for transporting gravel from Roitham to Linz. The company says…
April 2, 2012
Holcim has announced that is will reached its planned reduction in CO2 emissions earlier than planned and is on target to meet the rest of its…
April 2, 2012
The dangers of trespassing in quarries are being highlighted by the Mineral Products associations’ latest Stay Safe campaign and it is being backed…
April 2, 2012
Ireland-based CRH has announced that it has appoint Maeve Carlton as its new finance director, replacing Glenn Culpepper who has resigned from the…
April 2, 2012
It has been reported that Skanska Asfalt’s Mats Rönnbo has written to Norway’s public road organisation Statens Vegvesen claiming that NCC and…
April 2, 2012
UK-based HD Ricketts is aiming to diversify its business with a venture into aggregate production and has invested in a new Terex Finlay 683…
April 2, 2012
Inteco has announced that it is to build a new 4.6million tonne per year capacity cement plant in the Tula region of Russia. Construction on the €…
April 2, 2012
Efforts to help families in Mexico and Latin America build better homes has helped Cemex to win the Big Tick award from the Business in Community’s (…
April 2, 2012
Finning has used one of its Caterpillar 777F rigid dump trucks to display a 20ft England flag at its headquarters in Cannock, UK in support of the…
April 2, 2012
Production at family-owned Earsham Gravels in Norfolk, UK has been boosted with the delivery of two new Volvo wheeled loaders to join the existing…
April 2, 2012
Following the change of government in the UK, the British Aggregates Association (BAA) has renewed its campaign to have the country’s Aggregates Levy…
April 2, 2012
France-based Carrières du Boulonnais has said that it is planning to grow its business in the Rhône-Alpes area through acquisitions. The company…
April 2, 2012
SteinExpo has announced that is has signed an agreement with Mitteldeutsche Hartstein-Industrie to host the next edition of the quarrying equipment…
April 2, 2012
Strike action over pay freezes halted cement production at three of Secil’s cement plants in Portugal this week. The walk-out started on Tuesday 22…
April 2, 2012
Eurovia’s bid to acquire Tarmac’s European aggregates assets has been granted partial approval by the European Commission. Under the EU Merger…