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Questions are being asked in Poland over the poor performance of the recently paved S8 dual carriageway, close to capital Warsaw.

Panama is planning a project to repave up to 400km of roads, in a six month.

In Brazil the Sao Paulo-based company EcoTech plans to invest US$198 million in road repair technologies by 2016.

A new and more durable belt cleaner is available from conveyor specialist Superior Industries. This belt scraper is designed to offer extended cleaning capabilities and fewer change-outs. The Exterra cleaner features more urethane and is said to offer a bulky profile and a beefy tip, all of which extends life.

An Astec Universal concrete plant is said to be proving a real time and money saver for APAC Tennessee, thanks to its fast set-up and reduced cement demand. In March 2011, Astec, of Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA, shipped a new Universal concrete plant to the APAC Tennessee site on President's Island in Memphis, which is central between two APAC projects: a Memphis Airport runway project and an upcoming Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) ramp reconstruction job.

superior Industries is now offering virtual welder training at its Welding Training Centre.

With over 100 years of combined experience in the concrete industry, SIMEM and Röbäcks Sweden are announcing a unification of product representation worldwide. Röbäcks will represent SIMEM in Scandinavia, Finland, and the Baltic countries, while Simem will promote Röbäcks products in the rest of the world.

Austrian mobile crusher manufacturer Rubble Master has sold its first machine in Cyprus to Costas Papacostas & Sons, a construction company based in Limassol. After experience gained from demolition projects, handled using hired crushers, the company's managing director Costas Papacostas thought about starting in the recycling business, and invested in a mobile Rubble Master combination consisting of an RM100 impact crusher and TS3600 final double-deck screen.

The construction project for an industrial park, which includes building the roads linking to the facility, will benefit from the use of a stabiliser from BoMAG.

The UK asphalt market increased by over 5% in 2010 but the market has already started to turn lower, claims industry experts BDS Marketing Research, which is forecasting volumes to be around 1% lower in the current year