Palaeontologists have discovered one of the largest fossils of its era in a Burgess Shale quarry site in Kootenay National Park, in the Canadian Rockies.
Youngest Moon rocks on record only 2 billion years old
Curtin University researchers have helped to refine our understanding of the solar system’s timeline, dating the youngest Moon rocks ever discovered.
Promising carbon capture from Calix, HeidelbergCement
Calix has conducted a study at a HeidelbergCement subsidiary’s Belgian facility on low emissions intensity lime and cement with strongly endorsed results.
Boral to repay shareholders for weathering the storm
Boral has completed the sale of several construction materials businesses, allowing it to pay its shareholders up to $3 billion in surplus capital.
Female quarry workers set in stone
The Institute of Quarrying has enabled a new statue that tips its hat to female quarry workers to be built near the centre of the United Kingdom.
LafargeHolcim achieves US-first with Portland plant
LafargeHolcim has converted a cement plant in Texas, United States, to only produce Portland limestone cement (PLC), furthering its efforts in sustainable construction materials.
STEM students move Volvo hauler with brain power
A Volvo A60H articulated hauler has been towed using only LEGO Technic elements, in a quirky challenge set up by Volvo Construction Equipment (CE) and LEGO Group.
OEM restructures under one banner for producers
In a move designed to deliver benefits to extractive producers and change the way its products are presented to the market, Astec Industries has announced a major restructuring of the company’s business model.
Liebherr loader complements pillars of sustainability
A quarrying business committed to undertaking sustainable quarrying practices has completed a three-year trial of a Liebherr wheel loader that best suits its objectives.
Final sale relieves Boral of building products businesses
Boral has completed its pivot away from building products with the sale of its roofing and masonry business to private equity company Lutum.