Quarrying
HANSON Aggregates Marine confronted head on the controversy surrounding sand dredging in the waters off South Wales when the dredger Arco Dee berthed alongside the National Assembly for Wales in...
TARMAC have laid-off 200 of their central services staff in Wolverhampton as part of the company's integration with Tilcon and the other UK construction materials businesses of Anglo Industrial...
CASTLE Cement have agreed terms with RJB Mining for the supply of 300,000 tonnes of high-quality deep-mined coal from Maltby Colliery, near Rotherham, Yorkshire, in a contract worth 'several...
METSO Corp., parent company of Finland's Nordberg Group, have made a recommended cash offer of SEK9,118 million (£696 million) to acquire the entire stock of Svedala Industri AB of Sweden.
THE Construction Products Association has urged the Government to increase capital expenditure in this month's Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR).
ON 14 June geology took centre stage in the House of Commons at the inaugural meeting of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Earth Sciences.
In anticipation of the implementation of Part IIA of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 via Section 57 of the Environment Act 1995, Casella Science and Environment have combined the skills and...
THE British Aggregates Association, which represents the interests of over 50 of Britain's independent quarry operators, has taken the fight against the proposed aggregates tax to the Scottish...
LAST month saw RJB Mining shares leap by more than 40% in the wake of a preliminary bid approach which could lead to an offer being made for the company.
SALES volumes of sand and gravel aggregates increased by 5% and crushed rock aggregates by 1% in the first quarter of 2000, according to the latest figures issued by the Quarry Products...
BDS Marketing & Research have published a comprehensive directory of concrete products manufacturers in the UK.
HANSON have successfully completed their £1.56 billion acquisition of Pioneer International Ltd, creating in the process one of the world's largest heavy building materials groups, the world...
SPEAKING at the Quarry Products Association's annual lunch last month, the association's chairman, Ian Reid, attacked the Government's decision to introduce an aggregates tax and called on the...
ENNSTONE plc, who earlier this year acquired a 7.2% stake in Breedon plc for £2.66 million, are to purchase all remaining shares in the Midlands-based quarrying and housebuilding company for a...
REPRESENTATIVES from around half of the British Aggregates Association's member companies gathered in Penrith last month for the association's first ever annual general meeting.