Materials

The latest mini crushers can get into the smallest of places and crush the concrete on site. The portability of Red Rhino Crushers' new mini crusher means that transporting the crusher from site to site can be achieved by a 10tonne payload lorry.

Innovative plants are coming to the market to produce various types of concrete including new mixes as Patrick Smith reports

A new quarry is producing top quality aggregates for Poland's massive road construction programme writes Claire Symes. Wakoz Beton's Glazica sand quarry in Poland is a major source of high quality sand and gravels for the Gdansk construction market. The site is modern and only opened in 2006 but Wakoz Beton has continued to invest in facilities to improve its efficiency and output quality. The installation of a CDE mobile washing plant at the site last year is allowing it to provide materials for concrete.

The decision by MB S.p.A. to exhibit a wide range of its bucket crushers in 'camouflage uniform' at the Bauma 2007 exhibition in Munich, Germany, brought it to the attention of the United States Army. Now the company's crusher buckets are found in US Army shipyards, and in what it describes as "an ever-increasingly demanding, improvised market."

Independent ready mixed concrete and aggregates supplier Tor Multimix of Glastonbury, UK, has taken delivery of a new Liebherr L 514 PK Stereo wheeled loading shovel.