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NI Manufacturer Supplies CEMEX UK With New Concrete Mixing Plant

Northern Ireland manufacturer Rapid International has recently supplied CEMEX UK with its second Rapidmix 600CW mobile continuous concrete mixing plant.

The plant will be utilised for the production of cementitious mixes including Roller Compacted Concrete (RCC) and Cement Bound Granular Material (CBGM).

In 2014, Cemex, the global manufacturer of building materials, purchased a Rapidmix 400CW to extend its capabilities in cementious materials.

CEMEX's new Rapidmix 600CW mobile continuous concrete mixing plant is to be used for a wide range of applications throughout the UK, including, a Veolia UK composting facility in Nottingham and an Able UK port development in Killingholme.

The Rapidmix 600CW is a complete plant run by its own power source, with an on-board compressor and generator. Fitted with a self-erecting system, using hydraulics, the plant can change from travel mode to fully operational within a few hours. Featuring outputs of up to 600 tonnes per hour, the Rapidmix provides feed rates that are fully adjustable for the aggregate, cement and water systems. With the addition of optional cold feed bins, CEMEX's storage capacities were improved and the company also benefitted from using a third aggregate.

Woman Convicted Of Benefit Fraud

Dungannon woman convicted of benefit fraud

A woman has been convicted for claiming benefits she was not entitled to at Dungannon Magistrates' Court.

Lina Gudaviciute claimed Income Support, Carer’s Allowance and Housing Benefit totalling £4,684 while failing to declare employment. She was given a Conditional Discharge for two years

Ms Gudaviciute is also required to repay any outstanding money wrongfully obtained to the Department.

Sinn Fein's Comments On Legacy Described As 'Sheer Hypocrisy'

The Ulster Unionist Justice Spokesperson, Doug Beattie MC MLA, has described Sinn Fein’s comments on legacy as selective at best and sheer hypocrisy as worst.

Mr Beattie MC MLA said: "Recent comments by the Sinn Fein leadership in relation to funding for legacy inquests, indicates either selective memory lapse or utter hypocrisy.

"With no hint of irony, Mary Lou McDonald spoke of families that have 'waited for decades without answers and there is now no further excuse for delay'. She then accused the British Government of 'outrageous foot-dragging' which she says is 'entirely unacceptable'. It is as if she wants people to believe that the present crop of outstanding legacy inquests are the only outstanding inquests.

"I wonder if Sinn Fein intends to call for funding to ensure the Ballygawley bus bombing atrocity is brought before the coroner? Or Teebane, La Mon, Claudy, Bloody Friday, and Birmingham?

"There are a whole host of atrocities that do not receive unique specialised funding and whose families deserve the truth as much as anyone that Sinn Fein selectively promote in an attempt to portray themselves as the victims’ champion instead of a long-term supporter of victim makers.

"The Sinn Fein leadership seems to have forgotten that party's past and its role in endorsing, promoting and excusing the IRA. It also seems to have very conveniently forgotten that 90 per cent of deaths during the Troubles were due to the actions of terrorists and two thirds of all killings were the work of the IRA."

(CD)