An unlikely mutation caused by a distinct set of fortuitous events, the Hippowash wheelwash system is at the cutting edge of site-based vehicle decontamination and cleaning.

The British Aggregates Association (BAA) has also been invited to the table to discuss the future integration of aggregate related industries.

According to the DTI, more than 48million tyres are disposed of in the UK every year, which raises the question of what to do with them.

The quarry industry has reduced the number of RIDDOR reportable incidents at work dramatically. But the second part of the journey is always the hardest.

Exceptional visitor quality was the general consensus as Hillhead 2007 enjoyed a welcome respite from some of the wettest June weather ever recorded in the UK

The authors, Jon Humble and Chris Wood, are senior rural and environmental policy adviser (minerals) and acting head, building and conservation research team, respectively, with English Heritag

By David Jarvis, managing director of David Jarvis Associates Ltd

Nigel Jackson, chairman of the CBI Minerals Group, reports on the progress so far

In the latest installment of Andrew Hewitt’s regular diary offering readers advice and guidance learned as SB Waste in Wolverhampton progresses through a major project updating its skip was

The National Grid’s Juliana Grando outlines some of the problems the company has encountered trying to take the Road to Zero in terms of primary aggregates.

Following the departure of Jenny Price to Sport England, MQR chatted to former chemist and new CEO of WRAP Liz Goddard about her promoted position and her plans for WRAP.

As the country struggles to increase its recycling capacity before it is hit with fines for failing to meet EU landfill reduction targets in 2010, the matter of how best to finance plant in

New recommendations from the Refined Bitumen Associaton meant an adjustment to bitumen deliveries for Long Products in Rye.

Setting up an SMR operation to take on type-one in the utilities industry.

Hillhead is all about quarriers and recyclers working together with products and services firms to try and find the best route for business development.

The RSPB highlights how the careful recreation of dry acid grassland created from workings can help attract endangered birds and reverse the recent trend for reducing the number of hectares

Designed to operate within harsh environments, fast, high-security Lynx switches from Westermo are being used to develop an Ethernet redundancy ring for efficient data control and monitorin

Aggregates supplies are generally associated with land-based quarries but marine sources supply almost a fifth of sand and gravel needs in England and Wales.

Carol Pillinger, newly appointed director/general manager of EMP Awarding Body Ltd, offers an outsider’s perspective

A longer-term strategy for members to address skills-enhancement initiatives through EPIC

Proskills is the Sector Skills Council (SSC) for the process and manufacturing sector, which represents the extractive and mineral-processing industries as well as building products, coatings, glas

Raising the standard of education and qualifications to meet the needs and challenges of the 21st century

Historically, mobile plant and other vehicles have been the main source of accidents in the quarrying industry.

The UK’s Biodiversity Action Plan seeks the creation of 120hectatres of saline lagoon by 2015.The latest RSPB/MQR article in a series of six shows how the former clay workings at Cliffe Poo

“If you want the fame and the gain then you have to take the pain.” Worthy of a sporting motivational quote, this is the simple leadership wisdom of one of aggregates’ most colourful charac

Faint rumbles on the surface of the planet usually belie a tumultuous shift deep in the lower levels of the earth.

The landfill tax rising by £8 a year and the aggregates levy jumping from £1.60 a tonne to £1.95 from 2008 are only two of the bitter pills for those in aggregates to swallow.

Principal structural engineer for Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council (SMBC) David Rowe laughs when he hears the comments on the simplicity of quarrying.

In many aggregate depots today you will find 20mm virgin quarried material sat next to 20mm recycled demolition waste.

A summary of a WRAP aggregates project

By John C. Barritt, WRAP aggregates technical advisor

DUO Equipment install largest washing and water-management plant in Europe

As SB Waste in Wolverhapton continues its journey of upgrading its operations, Andrew Hewitt continues his diary offering readers advice and guidance on what he is learning from the process

The missing link in health and safety management?

By Helen Turner, HSE

By Fiona McEvoy, British Geological Survey; Richard Bate, Green Balance; Ken Hobden, Quarry Products Association; and John Cowley, Mineral and Resource Planning Associates

Oversized pump motors are costing industry dear through increased capital costs and reduced efficiency.

Angus Fosten of Partech Instruments looks at the implications for quarry operators

Sepro Mineral Processing International Ltd have recently shipped several Sepro heavy-duty scrubbers and Sepro-Sizetec screens to clients in Cuba, Mali, Ukraine and the Indian Ocean.

The selection of washing equipment for processing of clay-contaminated rock and aggregate

Matthew Joyce, managing director of Wileman Engineers Ltd, outlines the options available

It’s grim up North, the saying goes, but not if you are into recycling says south coast-based landfill operations manager for New Milton Sand and Ballast (NMSB) Darren Hazell.

Quarrying land being restored outnumbers that being prepared for excavations by more than 300hectares, according to the QPA’s latest sustainability report, so it is worth taking a look at w

Early last year SB Waste in Wolverhampton came to the conclusion that it was time to upgrade their plant to help improve material separation and give them more end products to take to marke

Weighbridge downtime can cost a quarry thousands of pounds an hour, so having an effective preventative maintenance programme in place is vital, argues Chris Thorpe, service manager for Ave