Aggregates news

US Concrete has outbid rival, Vulcan Materials, to secure the acquisitions of Canadian aggregates producer, Polaris Materials.

Increasing demand and higher regulatory scrutiny will put pressure on the global sand mining industry.

Vulcan Materials take-over of Polaris Materials is now in doubt, after receiving a higher bid from an unnamed US building materials company.

Mark Rock, Senior Vice President of Risk Management at CalPortland, has been awarded this year’s James M. Christie Safety & Health Professional of the year by the US National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association.

Scottish building materials supplier, Skene Group, has added a second Volvo L220H loading shovel to its fleet at its Soutra Mains quarry.

Two quarries belonging to Serbia’s largest aggregates producer, Teko Mining, will received new crushing and screening equipment from Metso.

Metso has sold its five-hundredth Lokotrack into Germany, delivering the LT120 jaw plant at this year’s Steinexpo tradeshow.

The MPA has appointed Martin Riley as its new Chairman.

Hanson Aggregates’ Ardmore quarry has extended its limestone reserves with the acquisition of an adjacent plot of land that houses a former high school.

The largest US producer of construction aggregates is to buy Polaris Materials, an aggregates and logistics company with operations in California and British Columbia.