Ukraine: Germany-based machinery manufacturer Vollert Anlagenbau is reportedly preparing to support the construction of prefabricated reinforced concrete plants starting with sites in Kyiv and Kharkiv. The project has an investment of around Euro110m, according to Ukraine Business News. The first plant in Kharkiv will have a capacity of 0.45Mm3/yr with an aim to reach 1Mm3/yr. The scheme is being supported by Germany-based insurance company Euler Hermes and is financed by a consortium of European banks. It will use a public–private partnership (PPP) model.

US: Construction firm PNK Group has unveiled a 111,000m2 manufacturing, warehousing and distribution facility in McDonough, Georgia, that showcases its new proprietary precast building system. The system enabled PNK Group to rapidly assemble the facility from high-precision reinforced precast concrete structural frame and other standardised elements, produced at its plants in Georgia and Pennsylvania.

UK: Leiths (Scotland) has secured permission from Aberdeenshire Council to open a 27.5ha aggregates quarry at Craig Farm near Huntly. BBC News has reported that the quarry will yield 650,000t of materials for use in ready-mix concrete and asphalt production over a 22-year operational life.

UK: Construction firm John Sisk & Son has successfully concluded its construction of part of the Wembley Park mixed development using concrete produced with Ecocem’s ACT alternative circular cement. The concrete met design specifications for all elements, while reducing embodied CO2 emissions by 70%. Construction Index News has reported that Capital Concrete and Creagh Concrete also participated in the project, which commanded €594,000 in Innovate UK funding.

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