According to the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS) and Construction News, of 2.3 million people working in the construction industry, only 296,000 are women. Two of these are 24-year-old Emma Wallis and 18-year-old Josie Barstow, both of whom operate 70t articulated dump trucks at Gloucestershire-based Cullimore Group, one of the UK’s leading quarrying, haulage and aggregates companies...

On 8 November 2017, 50 guests from the industrial fan end-user community from 12 countries converged on fan expert TLT-Turbo GmbH (POWERCHINA Group), in Bad Hersfeld, Germany, to witness the inauguration of the company’s expanded Service Workshop...

The 14th International Technical Seminar & Exhibition, organised by the Turkish Cement Manufacturers Association (TÇMB) took place on 10 - 13 October 2017 in Antalya, Turkey. It attracted 576 participants from Turkey and around the world. Here, Global Cement presents a photographic review of the event. The 15th edition of the event will take place once again in Antalya in 2019.

The countries of South America have different levels of economic development and cement industries of vastly different sizes. Brazil, which is not covered in this review, has a cement sector that is around as large as the rest of the continent combined. By contrast, French Guiana only has a single grinding plant. Here we review the capacities, production trends, recent plant news and other notable events for Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela.

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