Project between Sibelco ad SE Davis shows how collaboration between two organizations can create a solution that is a potential game-changer for the sector

BEUMER Group experts Eugen Doberstein and Lukas Paul discuss the potential benefits of using unmanned aerial vehicles in plant engineering applications

Dr Volker Nilles, managing director of Kleemann, talks about the importance of delivering a 'total solutions package' for the company's growing customer base and developing new crushing machines

The Finnish manufacturer continues to transform and evolve, developing innovative new products and achieving significant milestones along the way

Designed initially as a smaller option for primary crushing operations in underground mines, the eccentric roll crusher can be adapted as a workable primary crusher in above-ground quarrying applications

McLanahan discuss the key priorities for ensuring overall site safety and safer crushing operations

Breedon, one of the leading construction materials groups in Great Britain and Ireland, have recently taken delivery of new Terex Finlay crushers, screeners and washing equipment from Glasgow-based Finlay Scotland

Innovation and sustainability will be key to Volvo Construction Equipment’s investment in their Eskilstuna site

The application of robotics and automated production processes to help improve safety and optimize production efficiencies

Dan Gilkes reports on Case Construction Equipment's recent Eagle Day at Maltby Colliery in South Yorkshire

How automated data capture using network-connected devices, web-based reporting and advanced analytical tools is driving improvements across aggregates operations

With uptime being a key priority for their customers, JCB are investing heavily in a huge expansion of digital technology that is providing transformational improvements in global customer support

Automation technology is advancing, but what features do customers actually want? Volvo CE’s Tina Lefebvre, global director of connected services, and Koen Sips, vice-president of customer solutions, highlight how automated services are making every operator the world’s best

Increasing automation is met with excitement and fear in equal measure, but the benefits for mankind are enormous, says Professor Paul Newman, co-founder of autonomous vehicle software company Oxbotica

Innovative 80GHz radar reliability increases productivity in the screen house for E&JW Glendinning

Developing bespoke training programmes for new recruits in the mineral extraction industry is crucial for the sector’s future success. Tarmac’s national skills and safety park trainer, Katie Barrett, outlines the ways that the company is supporting its next generation of talent

Robin Gillespie outlines the development and utilization of electronic delay detonators at Shap Quarry

Key industry conference addresses impacts of ‘change’ on the mineral products industry

QM reports on the British Aggregates Association’s 2019 annual conference seminar proceedings

Parker Plant have recently installed a satellite mixed-material storage system for Tarmac’s Asphalt2Go operation near the centre of Gateshead

Paul Holmes, managing director of Wirtgen Ltd, talks about the company's customer-driven approach to meeting the demands of an increasingly competitive marketplace

One hundred percent increase in production set to support company in fulfilling new Aviva Stadium contract

Monk Plant Hire (MPH) are using a McCloskey modular washing system to turn C&D waste into clean sand and aggregate. Dan Gilkes went along to MHP’s site in Hockering, Norfolk, to find out more

Four years after installation, McLanahan’s Hydrosizer sand plant and Ultra Fines Recovery system continues to deliver premium-quality sands

Mineral Engineering Processes (MEP) explain why quality sand products require specialist process treatments

Tarmac install new 250 tonnes/h jet-pump transfer system at Eaton Hall Quarry

GSM’s Montfrin-Meynes Quarry, in France, overcame maintenance problems by upgrading its cyclone module pump to a double-adjustment system that increased wear life by a factor of three

How an independent sand and gravel extractor is leading the way with investment in intelligent plant to deliver measurable improvements in performance

JCB celebrate half a century of wheel loader production

Tarmac and biodiversity: a home-grown approach breeding sustainability and business benefits

Hanson outline the enormous benefits derived from working in partnership to create the award-winning Tice’s Meadow Nature Reserve and Biodiversity Trail

Aggregate Industries highlight the importance of collaboration with key stakeholders

John Salmon of Land & Mineral Management revisits Hills Quarry Products’ Shorncote Quarry in the Cotswold Water Park to see if the beneficial restoration impacts he helped promote many years ago have been achieved

Envireau Water’s Lee Clarke, principal hydrologist/hydrogeologist, and Rebecca Haw, hydrologist, outline the challenges involved in ensuring the largest quarry wetland-creation project in Europe delivers benefits for ecology and people

Rebecca Ann Haigh, asphalt manager with Total UK Ltd, assesses whether pushing the boundaries of this test can provide a better understanding of asphalt overlay behaviour, performance and design

Carl Robertus, technical director with Nynas, provides an insight into a potential new way of assessing the long-term durability of bitumen using a parameter known as ΔTc

Chepstow Plant International show that commitment and investment in employees delivers a more sustainable organization

The Institute of Quarrying Southern Africa celebrated reaching 50 years at this year's annual conference and exhibition held in Durban

Sandvik Mobile Crushers and Screens roll out the latest upgrade in their 2-Series product offering with the launch of the new QI442 impact crusher

Progress on the MPA’s high-consequence hazard strategy

Mark Russell, MPA executive director – planning, mineral resources & BMAPA, examines the factors that will shape the ability of marine-dredged sand and gravel to contribute to the wider demand for construction aggregates

How the marine aggregates industry helped the Maritime Archaeology Trust create a lasting legacy of information and learning resources for future generations

How the quarrying industry is developing the next generation of young talent and creating future leaders

A preview of some of the new plant, equipment and services at this year’s construction machinery show

BDS Marketing Research's latest report examines how the industry is performing

Managing director Sean Warburton talks to QM about the company's strategy

Conveyor belts perform an enormously important function in the quarrying industry. They are also a very significant overhead. Finding a belt that is genuinely durable and can handle the tough demands found within quarries but still be priced in line with standard belting might be regarded as seeking the Holy Grail. Until now it seems.

Continental conveyor belts are currently working flat out on mega-tunnel project in Stockholm