Quarrying - Company & Industry News

Due to continued growth in demand, Hanson Springs has continued to invest to substantially increase their production capacity with two further coiling lines with a combined output potential of 24 tonnes of springs per day.Current output i... Read Full Article

The recent announcement to mothball the Lhoist Thrislington dolomitic lime production plant with 40 job losses as a direct result of recent UK steel manufacturing site closures highlights the similarity of issues faced by the lime and steel indust... Read Full Article

Granite and marble mining company Gramazini, relies on a fleet of 25 Volvo machines to help polish performance at its rock deposits in Brazil. In a country of continental dimensions, Brazil has a large amount of natural resources. Am... Read Full Article

The first woman Master in the UK Marine Aggregate Dredging Sector, Georgina Carlo-Paat has recently completed her first tour of duty aboard CEMEX UK Marine ... Read Full Article

In 2008, the Norwegian quarry Velde Pukk made a bold decision to invest in a unique, complete manufactured sand process, making use of air classification technology. Today, in close cooperation with Metso, the quarry runs a highly successful sand ... Read Full Article

Leading building materials supplier CEMEX UK has handed over Lade Pits, formerly Denge quarry - a unique site equipped with three so-called Sound Mirrors - to the Royal Society for the protection of birds (RSPB). The site and its listening devices... Read Full Article

Breedon Aggregates (“Breedon”) and Whitemountain have been jointly awarded a contract valued at up to £55 million to supply and lay asphalt on the £745 million Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route/Balmedie–Tipperty proje... Read Full Article

Precision bearing manufacturer Schaeffler is celebrating the 125-year anniversary of the ball grinding mill, a patented machine that for the first time enabled the manufacture of precision hardened steel balls that were perfectly round and of equa... Read Full Article

A market leader in the design, development and manufacture of industrial process control solutions is using portable weigh-bridges to verify materials produced by the Rapid International continuous mixing plants. Belfast-based, Pneut... Read Full Article

Quarrying company Italcave has boosted productivity thanks to the addition of a Volvo A40F-FS full suspension articulated hauler. Set between the city of Milan and the border of Switze... Read Full Article

Great news, the number of Twite birds at CEMEX Dove Holes quarry has increased and is looking all twite!  Thanks to the flower-rich five hectare meadow planted on the edge of the quarry site which provides the young Twites with the sorrel see... Read Full Article

The Malopolska region in South-East Poland has been nominated as a European Entrepreneurial Region (EER) for 2016. The award is granted to the regions which present the most future-oriented "visions of entrepreneurial development", and the same sp... Read Full Article

Global earthmoving attachments specialist, Miller, has invested almost £1.5 million overhauling its UK manufacturing plant.The substantial investment has focussed largely on three key areas – productivity, service level and le... Read Full Article

The efficiency and low maintenance of 15 Terex Trucks articulated haulers are proving vital for working in the remote and vast gold mine in Saint- Élie, French Guiana. Take a helicopter 30 minutes west from Cayenne, French Gui... Read Full Article

Terex MJ47 Modular Plant has been designed to meet the needs of a large capacity Primary Crushing Station with minimal civil works, assembly time and cost. The Module comprises a large truck dump hop... Read Full Article

The mineral products industry has long been delivering innovative and imaginative high quality restoration and management of quarries and is in a unique position to deliver more and contribute to the country’s stock of Natural Capital.... Read Full Article

Family-owned Conners Crushed Stone is using a fleet of Volvo Construction equipment to help quarry and crush high quality limestone at five quarries in Texas, USA.Although the days of the Wild ... Read Full Article

Lafarge and Holcim have received final approval for their proposed merger from the competition authorities in the United States and Canada.All competition approvals necessary for closing the transaction have now been obtained ahead of the... Read Full Article

Doosan Construction Equipment has launched the company’s new high performance ‘DL-5’ generation Stage IV compliant wheel loaders, the new DL300-5, DL350-5 and DL420-5 models, replacing the successful DL300-3, DL350-3 and DL420-3 ... Read Full Article

CMB International has just completed a complete refurbishment of a Cedarapids twin-deck 20m x 6m primary rinse screen at CEMEX UK’s Northfleet operation.Owned and operated by CEMEX UK, Northfleet Wharf is a marine aggregates facilit... Read Full Article