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Paving the path to sustainability
Transforming quarrying for a more efficient future…The quarrying industry, essential for supplying raw materials for constru... Read Full Article
New initiatives and innovations shared at safety awards
The latest innovations and good practices helping to keep workers in the UK mineral products industry safe and well have been showcased in yesterday's MPA Health & Safety Awards & Conference. MPA is delighted to announce that w... Read Full Article
Gallagher’s Hermitage Quarry reduces their carbon footprint with the help of PowerX Equipment.
By John Vincent...Hermitage Quarry is located in Maidstone, Kent and is one of only two processing operations actively quarrying Kentish Ragstone. Owned and operated by Gallagher Aggregates... Read Full Article
PowerX Equipment increase the processing power for the CEMEX Dove Holes crushing operation.
Situated in Derbyshire close to the Peak District, Dove Holes is CEMEX’s largest quarry and provides aggregates for construction projects all over the country. The Dove Ho... Read Full Article
Bullimores further invest in Hitachi.
A family owned and operated company, Bullimores commenced trading in 1907 as hauliers and coal merchants. They became quarry owners in the sixties, with diversification into the plant hire business in the eighties and more recently a skip hire bus... Read Full Article
EPC-UK experiences most successful best practice seminars
Continuing its commitment to the professional development of personnel within the extractives industry, EPC-UK, a market leader in the field of commercial explosives and drilling and blasting, ha... Read Full Article
Changing of the guard – progressive times at Sandvik UK/Ireland.
Solid business foundations are formed around good people, and as we look back at a nostalgic era stretching back 34 years, we also progress forwards into an exciting and freshly energised new generation.Mark Haywood, Sales Manager for Sur... Read Full Article
Meet Brauncewell’s new prime mover
Brauncewell Quarries Ltd, an independent family run aggregates business has opted for another Volvo 50 tonne excavator to take over as the new prime mover at its facility located close to Sleaford in Lincolnshire. The Company has a l... Read Full Article
A gypsum quarry in Italy gets a production boost from a MOBICAT EVO
A Kleemann MOBICAT MC 110 Z EVO jaw crusher is delivering great performance in an Italian gypsum quarry managed by Gyproc Saint-Gobain.Italy is one of the major producers in Europe of gyp... Read Full Article
Terex Trucks drives home reliability message at South African coal mine
Terex Trucks’ TR60 rigid haulers are showcasing their longevity, clocking up 25,000 hours moving overburden for Atlantis Mining.The year was 1867, Queen Victoria and Napoleon III came together to approve the plan for the Channel Tun... Read Full Article