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The Mineral Products Association is counting down to Quarries & Nature 2021; this year is the 50th anniversary of the awards, which celebrate the unique contribution of restored quarries to nature recovery and creating ‘net gain’.
The Beckum cement plant has received the CSC sustainability certificate in platinum. The award provides information about how ecologically, socially and economically responsible a plant is.
A historic lime kiln located in Gradbach, Quarndon, has been given a new lease of life thanks to a project led by the South West Peak Landscape Partnership working with Tarmac’s Tunstead Quarry.
The third annual GCCA ‘Concrete in Life’ photography competition has today launched with a call for amateur and professional photographers from around the world to capture the role of concrete in their lives and its role in the sustainable world of tomorrow.
The company has started the trial run at its state-of-the-art greenfield integrated plant (Marwar Cement Works) in the Nagaur district of Rajasthan.
The company has appointed prominent mining and materials executive, Grant Quasha, to lead its global expansion drive.
The 2021 competition challenge for teams of engineering students was to design a civic centre comprising a library and council offices in a new garden town in the north west of England
Following the Senate’s overwhelming bipartisan approval on 10 August for the long-awaited infrastructure spending bill, which includes long-term investments in transport, energy, utilities and climate-related initiatives, GlobalData now forecasts that the US construction industry will grow by 3.3% a year on average between 2021 and 2025 compared to a previous forecast of 2.2%.
The Mineral Products Association (MPA) has cautiously welcomed the Government's proposals to accelerate the development of a low carbon hydrogen economy but has warned that the costs of the production, transmission and distribution need to be shared by the whole UK economy.
While the UK construction industry contracted sharply by 14% in 2020, a strong recovery is expected, with output forecast to rise and grow by 10.6% in 2021, according to GlobalData.
The company has announced that as part of its growth strategy, it is expanding its business in Alabama, investing more than US$6 million in its new Brierfield Plant to produce high-quality aggregates for construction needs across the state.
The recognition of Lafarge Africa follows the recent IFC Gender Equality study, conducted in partnership with Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX) to assess gender gaps at 30 leading companies listed on NGX.