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01 August 2008 | Site reports
New Caterpillar 775F dumptrucks to play a key role in development plans at Bayston Hill QuarryBayston Hill Quarry, on the southern outskirts of Shrewsbury, part of Tarmac’s Western area, has...
01 August 2008 | Site reports
Brett Aggregates install Europe’s largest radial stockpile conveyor at CliffeWith annual sales of more than £60 million, Brett Aggregates are one of the leading suppliers of sand and...
02 June 2008 | Site reports
New sand and gravel washing plant installed in Co. Cork
CDE, the Co. Tyrone-based specialist designers and manufacturers of tailor-made equipment for the aggregates industry, have recently added...
02 June 2008 | Site reports
Imerys switch from traditional wet extraction methods to a dry mining process at two mines in their Western Area kaolin operationsImerys, the world leaders in industrial minerals, have recently...
01 June 2008 | Site reports
Clustering higher value services and utilising lower value aggregate products in-house for high-end materials is the direction the quarry industry in the UK has been moving for while. But nowhere is...
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01 April 2008 | Site reports
Reading-based Alan Hadley Waste and Recycling has offically opened its new aggregate washing plant, about two years in the planning. The business idea is to excavate material from its four inert...
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01 April 2008 | Site reports
New washing plant produces high-spec recycled aggregates and saves water
Raymond Brown Group recently formed Raymond Brown Minerals & Recycling Ltd specifically to focus on the related...
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03 March 2008 | Site reports
New Milton Sand and Ballast open new greenfield sand and gravel site adjacent to Bournemouth Airport
Since their foundation some 70 years ago, New Milton Sand and Ballast (NMSB) – a wholly...
01 February 2008 | Site reports
The Ffos-y-fran Land Reclamation Scheme in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales, one of the largest projects of its kind in Europe, will see more than 400ha of derelict land being restored and the opencast...
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02 January 2008 | Site reports
New Benninghoven coating plant for NewtongrangeLeiths (Scotland) Ltd are a family owned construction and construction materials group who have expanded in recent years to become one of the largest...
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01 January 2008 | Site reports
Major facility upgrade at one of the UK’s largest quarrying operationsWhatley Quarry lies at the heart of the UK’s biggest limestone-producing area in the east Mendips, Somerset, and is...
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01 October 2007 | Site reports
Liam Lynch (Quarries) Ltd install CDE dust-washing plant at Croom
County Tyrone-based CDE Ireland Ltd, specialists in the design and manufacture of tailor-made processing equipment for the sand...
01 August 2007 | Site reports
Fire-damaged wharf back on course following £2 million replant
Earlier this year CEMEX completed a major reconstruction project at their Angerstein Wharf marine aggregates facility on the...
02 July 2007 | Site reports
Lafarge Aggregates expand their operations in LeicestershireThe most recent quarrying operation to open in Leicestershire came on stream in January this year. Lafarge Aggregates’ Brooksby...
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02 April 2007 | Site reports
WBB Minerals optimize the utilization of their ball clay resourcesBy Ray Bovey, engineering manager, WBB Minerals UKThis paper explains how WBB Minerals – part of the S.C.R. – Sibelco NV...
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