Lafarge quarry gets Eastenders visit
A Hertfordshire quarry hit the small screen as the backdrop to a saucy scene in BBC flagship soap, Eastenders.Lafarge Aggregates & Concrete UK's Tyttenhanger sand and gravel quarry, near St Albans, was the location for a secret tryst ... Read Full ArticleBAA Receives Further Recognition of its Site Competence Audit Scheme
The British Aggregates Association (BAA) has been recognised for a significant health and safety initiative in the Construction Products Association (CPA) 2010 edition of Construction Products Innovation and Achievement (CPIA). It is one o... Read Full ArticleSuccess Down Under- New Benninghoven Asphalt Plant for Tropic Asphalts of NSW.First for Australian Contractor
Tropic Asphalts Pty based in Toronto, NSW. Have recently put into production an Eco 2000 asphalt plant to complete a surfacing contract with the RTA for roads within the Snowy Mountains area. The w... Read Full ArticleCool asphalt to cut carbon emissions?
Cool asphalt could cut carbon emissions and speed-up road worksUK industry leaders start trials to wipe over a third off asphalt carbon footprint by 2020The UK is set to slash the carbon emissions of road works and cut tr... Read Full ArticleCMB Sells new Bx300 Crushing plant into Norway.
Bjordal Maskin AS, recently took delivery of a CMB Bx300 mobile crushing plant. The plant is a diesel/hydraulic powered unit, featuring the company's high performance RS150 ... Read Full ArticleBedRock Announces: AggFlow with Track-Mounted (mobile) Equipment
BedRock Software, LLC (BedRock) has created another industry first by releasing AggFlow with Track-Mounted (mobile) equipment simulation capability. BedRock has developed this new and innovative approach starting with Powerscreen I... Read Full ArticleSecure refuelling, made simple for Mountsorrell Quarry
Lafarge Aggregates (Mountsorrell Quarry) has used Liquid Management Solutions (LMS) to install future proof radio frequency identification (RFid) fuel management equipment.The LMS RF solution was chosen for its existing operational pedigree wit... Read Full ArticleNew asphalt plant offers energy and space saving advantages for CEMEX
West Lothian based Cormac Ltd have installed and commissioned a complete high efficiency TOP TOWER asphalt plant for CEMEX at their quarry near Shap in Cumbria. Cormac, who are renowned for their h... Read Full ArticleTransport Support has recently launched a new safety product to help improve safety within the quarrying/transport industry.
The TS HVDS (High Voltage Detection System) is designed to prevent vehicles and machinery with a variable height from coming into contact with high voltage overhead power lines. The system consists of a cab mounted detection anten... Read Full ArticleMetso Minerals (UK) Ltd Secures Safe Contractor Accreditation
Metso Minerals (UK) Ltd, the UK subsidiary of global equipment, service and process solutions provider Metso Minerals, has been awarded the coveted Safe Contractor Accreditation, which is organised and run by The National Britannia Group.... Read Full ArticleBest-Chem resolves dusts issue at Hanson Ystrad Meurig Quarry
In Early 2007 Hanson Aggregates decommissioned its crushing and processing plant at its Ystrad Meurig Quarry nr Aberystwyth. This was replaced with a complete mobile ... Read Full ArticleFinedoor supply new aggregate screen for CEMEX - Cowieslinn Quarry.
Finedoor have recently completed a project to supply a new aggregate screen for Cowieslinn Quarry.The CEMEX Quarry at Eddleston, near Peebles, Scotland has been operational since 1985 and h... Read Full ArticleCDE open new offices in Poland.
CDE's global expansion is continuing at a great pace with the recent announcement of new offices opened in Poland.The Cookstown based company which designs and manufactures customised equipment for the ... Read Full ArticleLondon
It's a little-known fact that Lord Byron, Jane Austen, Lord Palmerston and The Earl of Liverpool all used the same bottle bank in London. To be more precise they used Hoares Bank, which was founded as a private deposit bank by Richard Hoare in 167... Read Full ArticleFuchs Lubricants
As a major specialist supplier of lubricants to the Quarrying and Recycling industries Fuchs Lubricants recognize that environmental management has beco... Read Full ArticleAPR launch an extremely impressive new Gipo mobile crushing and screening machine into the UK.
Aggregate, Recycling and Processing will launch an extremely impressive new Gipo mobile crushing and ... Read Full ArticleTarmac has found Britain's Spookiest Road!
M6 is Britain’s Spookiest Road. You’re driving alone down a dark, country lane. The mist rolls in and the shadows cast by the full moon start to play tricks with you mind. You feel the hairs on the b... Read Full ArticleNew Ship Loader Cabin for Foster Yeoman at Glensanda.
Wright Engineering of Worksop, Nottinghamshire have recently supplied a new ship loader operating cabin for harbour operations at Foster Yeoman’s Glensanda Quarry at Oban, Scotland.Located on a 2,400 hectare estate on the remote West ... Read Full ArticleHanson completes acquisition of Material Service.
Hanson completes acquisition of Material Service, a major US aggregates producer, for $300 million (approximately £160m)Hanson PLC, the international building materials company, announced today that it has completed the acquisition ... Read Full ArticleH&C Dickie acquire Sheba Plant.
H&C Dickie Ltd the Scottish based crushing and screening contractor have announced that they have acquired their English counterpart Sheba Plant L... Read Full Article