Designed for the screening of fine loose materials, such as quartz sand, the Niagara M-Class multiple-deck screening machines from Haver & Boecker are an extension to the existing five screenin

New sand and gravel washing plant installed in Co. Cork

The Dutch company, Ventilex, known internationally for their high-efficiency, continuous fluid-bed dryers, have recently introduced a new version, the Ventura two-stage drying system.

An effective dry sand manufacturing process from Japan

By Hugo Pettingell

Replacing natural sand in concrete

Imerys switch from traditional wet extraction methods to a dry mining process at two mines in their Western Area kaolin operations

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 the ideal end of such planning realised better than in Tarmac’s Leeds-based Cross Green facility linked by rail with its flagship Swinden Quarry near Skipton in the Yorkshire Dales National Park

Announcing its launch in March, Speke-based Recycled Aggregates North West (RAN) hasn’t been slow in making its presence known.

When it comes to lowering health and safety incident levels in quarries across the UK it is pure aggregates suppliers that usually come to mind.

Roy Bush, Her Majesty’s Inspector of Quarries from the Health andSafety Executive (HSE), recently told the annual British AggregatesAssociation AGM to expect an increased focus on blasting

With new corporate manslaughter legislation dangling the threat of an onerous prosecution over firms with staff who die while at work, there has never been a better time to take a close loo

Falls from height are the most common cause of workplace fatalities in the UK. MQR columnist and former Hanson H&S expert Colin Nottage offers guidance on how to reduce inciden

With the spread of ‘NIMBYism’, the aggregates industry continues to face the challenging task of changing the negative public perception of quarries.

How to get the most out of your mobile plant assets

By Mike Goatley, sales manager, ZF Off-Highway Division

New mobile Hercules trommel screen helps repair hurricane-damaged levees in New Orleans

Protecting the coast with dimension stone waste from Larvik

Two-week engine and transmission refurbishment helps breathe up to 14,000h of new life into Barton Quarry’s Cat 972G wheel loader

An opportunity for the minerals industry?

By Stewart Lenton, technical director, SLR Consulting Ltd

The UK is currently the leading user of recycled materials in Europe – last year around 280 million tonnes of aggregates were used as raw construction material, a quarter of which, some 70

By Alastair Clough, regulatory and litigation associate at DLA Piper, Sheffield

It has been a long time coming, but this month sees the introduction of the new corporate manslaughter legislation.

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 sites – which the company sees as ‘virtual quarries’ – and produce a WRAP protocol guided aggregate end product for the local market

Like its products, Clay Cross-based Centriquip has found itself coming full circle.

Cement is a key ingredient in any stabilisation or groundworks activity but with the growing urgency to reduce carbon emissions the hunt is on to find ways of making it greener.

The drive towards implementing the waste hierarchy into all aspects of government policy in the UK has led to a raft of new phrases being coined.

With a year to go before abstraction licences become necessary to undertake quarry dewatering activities, DLA Piper associate solicitor Penny Simpson describes some of the main hurdles firm

The pending change in the qualifications framework has gained a great deal of national press attention recently with headlines screaming at the birth of the McDonalds A-level.

Writing exclusively for MQR Magazine, Martin Isles, QPA director of health and safety, charges the HSE with failing adequately to support quarry firms’ desires to reach target zero and call

Associate solicitor in Weightmans’ Regulatory Services Unit, Glyn Thompson, carries on the theme of falls from height by adding a legal perspective to the problem and looking at the duties

Falls from height are the most common cause of workplace fatalities in the UK.

Site Waste Management Plans (SWMPs) are now a legal requirement when tendering for projects over £300,000, from housing developments to road-building.

A remarkable haul of 28 flint hand-axes, dated by archaeologists to be around 100,000 years old, have been unearthed in gravel from a licensed marine aggregate dredging area 13km off Great Yarmouth

With site waste management plans (SWMPs) now in force and a 50% reduction in C&D waste targeted by 2012, WRAP is to focus the attention of its next capital grant competition on skip was

John Penny, area estates manager for Aggregate Industries, looks into the debate and draws on his own experiences in the past few years

As the construction trade braces itself for the introduction of Site Waste Management Plans (SWMPs) and the prospect of more EU legislation, Digbits’ managing director, Marcus Clay, takes a

New washing plant produces high-spec recycled aggregates and saves water

How to get your share of £1 billion for training

Interfacing weighing systems using radio modems

Emlyn Roberts, sales director with Weightron Bilanciai, outlines how recent advances in technology and engineering are improving weighbridge versatility

The use of new technology called VIPER means that VOSA is cracking down on overloaded and unevenly loaded vehicles.

The importance of quantifying the quarrying industry’s value-adding activities

New Milton Sand and Ballast open new greenfield sand and gravel site adjacent to Bournemouth Airport

While an accurate number reflecting the quantity of recycled aggregates produced in the UK each year is elusive, all indicators suggest the trend is upward.

The use of RFID technology in fuel-management best practice

The Learning and Skills Council’s national skills programme, Train to Grain, aims to give businesses across England greater access to the training their employees need to succeed

Advice on specifying outdoor generator enclosures

JCB Power Products Ltd have made great strides since entering the power-generation market in 2006 and now boast a range of 44 models with major sales into the quarrying, construction and wa

A compact and powerful seismograph from Accudata