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UK trade magazine Contract Journal is reporting that Controlled Group (formerly Controlled Demolition Group) has run up a further pre-tax loss – this time amounting to £1.8m. The company only signed off its latest accounts — for the 12 months to 30 September 2007 — on 12 January 2009. Turnover of £10m was up from…Read moreRead more

Good quality (if overlong) video of dust handler stacks being pulled down in North Carolina. There is, however, a certain irony at the end as the dust handler stacks send a plume of – you guessed it – dust into the air!

It is the fastest-growing online community in the world and it counts people as diverse as US President Barack Obama, John Cleese and Stephen Fry among its most loyal fans. But to many people, Twitter is merely the sound a cartoon bird makes. But not for much longer. Following some widespread public exposure, not least…Read moreRead more

Kent-based waste management and recycling operator Pinden Limited, a division of “watch it come down” demolition specialist Syd Bishop & Sons, has taken delivery of four new Volvo trucks: two FH-480 tractor units and two FL-280 skiploaders. These vehicles are the latest elements of a fleet replacement programme that saw 26 trucks delivered during 2008…Read moreRead more

Engineers in Charlotte in the US have had their demolition efforts hampered by an unstable bridge that was to be used to haul construction and demolition waste away from the site. Full details, and a brief news video can be found here.

Research by KHL Group, publisher of International Construction and D&Ri magazines, shows that global fiscal stimulus could add US$ 355 billion per year to the world’s construction output in 2009 and 2010. This is equivalent to an additional 7% on top of the world’s current annual construction output of about US$ 5 trillion, and equates…Read moreRead more

The UK’s respected Daily Telegraph today published the latest in an ongoing series of articles that speculate that supposedly well-meaning recycling activities may, in fact, be contributing to global warming. However, the Government backed Waste Resources Action Programme has responded quickly, refuting these claims in a hurriedly assembled press release from CEO Dr Liz Goodwin.

I will be the first to admit that I was more than a little surprised at yesterday’s announcement that Terex was to create dedicated “centres of excellence” for crushing and screening. Don’t get me wrong; I am all for the concept of excellence, it just seemed strange that Terex was putting such a positive spin…Read moreRead more

To better serve its customers, leverage the benefits of scale and lend its factories more readily to lean manufacturing techniques, Terex Materials Processing is proposing to revise its global operational footprint, creating dedicated “centres of excellence.” Under immediate consideration is the consolidation of manufacturing and assembly facilities to concentrate production, skills and expertise in identified…Read moreRead more

Caterpillar, the world’s biggest manufacturer of construction and demolition equipment, has announced that it is to slash its global workforce by a staggering 20,000 people. The announcement coincides with the company’s announcement that it had achieved record sales and revenues of $51.324 billion for 2008, up 14 percent from 2007. Profit per share was $5.66,…Read moreRead more