Hanson UK is trialing a new electricity generator at one of its quarries in Somerset that is powered by the weight of the rock coming off the quarry's conveyor belt.
The collapse of Germany's third largest aluminium producer is proof that even in a relatively strong economy the sector still needs swifter action from Government to mitigate punitive carbon taxes, the German metal trades union WVM is claiming.
The Construction Products Association (CPA) says new ONS figures suggesting an even deeper decline in construction output in the first quarter of this year than previously estimated shows just how deep and long-lasting the recession is likely to be.
The central barrier of an eight-mile section of the M5 in the West Midlands has been renovated using 30,000 tonnes of recycled concrete as part of an eight-week contract run by Tarmac.
Dorset County Council has been recommended to approve an application for a 11ha extension to Chard Junction Quarry in the Dorset AONB.
Quarry company Hills Group has donated £500,000 to the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust to celebrate the Trust's 50th birthday.
Dorset County Council has considered a recommendation to approve an extension to Povington Pit to enable the extraction of 350,000 tonnes of ball clay over an eight year period.
Kent County Council has allowed a primary aggregate, recycled aggregate and topsoil depot to receive, store, process and dispatch primary aggregate and recovered material.
The construction industry in the UK is still suffering even if there have been positive signs in some parts of the country, the Construction Products Association (CPA) is claiming.
The chief executive of Scarborough Borough Council has welcomed Sirius Mineral's announcement that it now believes a full-scale potash mining operation in the North York Moors near the town is economically viable.
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