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Stockholm, Sweden, February 5, 2007: Atlas Copco AB has entered into an agreement with Altor 2003 Fund to acquire Dynapac AB of Sweden, a leading supplier of compaction and paving equipment for the road construction market. The acqu... Read Full Article

Caterpillar has recently announced changes to its high-production, asphalt paver line that results in a new model - the AP655D. The AP655D is a high production 2.5 m track-type asphalt paver that features a Cat® C6.6 engine with ACERT... Read Full Article

It's a sad fact of everyday life that theft of plant and construction equipment has reached an all-time high. Theft is a major problem for everyone involved in the industry, from major civil engineering companies through to family-run building firms.... Read Full Article

Forest Garden, the UK's largest manufacturer of timber garden products, has just taken delivery of a Liebherr A 924B HD Litronic materials handler for their mill at Lockerbie. Forest Garden has run two A 904 models for around five years at the mil... Read Full Article

Northern Ireland based Terex Finlay is looking forward with confidence to further market growth across Europe as it approaches its 50th year in business.Cone CrushersThe company, which is part of the world-wide Terex Corporation,... Read Full Article

Stockholm, Sweden, October 24, 2006: This year marks 50 years since Atlas Copco made a major expansion of its compressor business and accelerated its journey towards worldwide leadership in compressed air. It is also 50 years since Atlas Copco too... Read Full Article

M6 is Britain’s Spookiest Road. You’re driving alone down a dark, country lane.  The mist rolls in and the shadows cast by the full moon start to play tricks with you mind.  You feel the hairs on the b... Read Full Article

WRAP (the Waste & Resources Action Programme) has launched an open tender, inviting bids from organisations, businesses and local authorities who are able to replicate good practice models and provide ... Read Full Article

Wright Engineering of Worksop, Nottinghamshire have recently supplied a new ship loader operating cabin for harbour operations at Foster Yeoman’s Glensanda Quarry at Oban, Scotland.Located on a 2,400 hectare estate on the remote West ... Read Full Article

At the forthcoming Bauma exhibition on 23 - 29 April 2007 in Munich, more international companies for construction, building materials and mining are expected to exhibit their current product innovations including the latest trends in technologies... Read Full Article

Jonathan Nicholls, Finance Director of Hanson PLC, will be leaving the company on October 31, 2006 to become the Finance Director of Old Mutual plc. A successor will be appointed in due course.Alan Murray, Hanson Chief Executive, commented,... Read Full Article

Hanson completes acquisition of Material Service, a major US aggregates producer, for $300 million (approximately £160m)Hanson PLC, the international building materials company, announced today that it has completed the acquisition ... Read Full Article

It's not often that customers take the trouble to send unsolicited testimonials but that's exactly what Bernard Partridge, Technical Advisor for the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) at Harwell did for Spiroflow Ltd.Spiroflow s... Read Full Article

A linescanner from infrared temperature measurement specialist Land Instruments International has improved the monitoring of kiln shell temperatures at a cement factory in Cameroon.Mounted in a robust, air purged and cooled stainless steel ... Read Full Article

H&C Dickie Ltd the Scottish based crushing and screening contractor have announced that they have acquired their English counterpart Sheba Plant L... Read Full Article