Cement manufacturer Lafarge is on the final stages of its £7m investment programme at the Dunbar works.

Environment Secretary Hilary Benn MP has visited builders merchant group Wolseley's Sustainable Building Center last week.

A dust cloud which leaked from a Hanson Cement works is being investigated by the Environment Agency.

Tool and equipment hire company HSS Hire has teamed up with the HSE to launch the 2009 Ladder Exchange.

Guardsman the protective equipment specialist, has been awarded the top BSIF Safety Service Award

David Lee, director of the Electric Heating Company, would like to see industry calls for a boiler scrappage scheme extended to cover electric heating products.

Wigan-based spade and fork manufacturer Rollins Bulldog Tools has purchased the assets of Caldwells Manufacturing, which entered administration in June 2009.

Lock and security manufacturer ASSA ABLOY is replacing its Chubb brand with other leading brands from within the group for most locks and secondary security products.

The Metropolitan Police has warned hire companies to be extra vigilant following a spate of thefts of plant and equipment by bogus construction firms.

North West based plumbers' merchant, James Hargreaves, has taken on the bisTrack range of business software products from Progressive Solutions.