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A man has appeared in court accused of stealing hire equipment worth more than £20,000 from companies including builders merchant Travis Perkins.

Cement and aggregates supplier CEMEX UK has won the Natural England Biodiversity Award for its restoration work at Rugeley quarry in Staffordshire.

Employees at the St Helens plant of insulation manufacturer Knauf Insulation held a series of fundraising events for Macmillan Cancer Support last week.

Independent builders' merchant Thompsons Building Centres and its sister plumbers merchant TAPs has appointed Tom McElkerney as group managing director.

Imperial Sanitaryware Ltd has bought fellow bathroom manufacturer Ideal Standard's factory in Middlewich, Cheshire.

Construction activity is unlikely to return to growth until 2014, sparking the worst decline for 30 years, according to the latest Construction Industry Forecasts.

Scottish independent builders merchant Beatsons Building Supplies Limited has won two merchanting awards presented by buying group National Merchant Buying Society.

Timber company BSW Timber has increased both turnover and profits, on the back of which it plans to expand capacity at both its Fort William and Latvian Mills in a drive to produce more than 1.3million cu m of sawn timber per year across all mills.

Builders merchants organisation the Builders Merchants Federation has warned that Norfolk Trading Standards is the first authority to resume full scale checking of the weights of bulk bagged aggregates being sold by merchants.

Plumbers merchant Plumbase supplied plumbing materials for the WorldSkills London 2011 Plumbing and Heating contest.