Making Ground, a specialist in high quality and environment-friendly landscape solutions, has witnessed an increase in demand for its sustainable paving solutions after being named winner of the eighth Gaia Awards in the ‘Marble, Stone and Ceramic Category’ at The Big 5 show in Dubai, UAE, last year.

Kingspan Insulation says its Kingspan KoolDuct System has been verified by the Sheet Metal and Air-Conditioning Contractors’ National Association (Smacna) and qualifies as an acceptable alternative to the Smacna/Ansi Phenolic Duct Construction Standard (PDCS).

Global sanitary ware producer Geberit has launched its new Preda and Selva ceramic urinals with attractive new partition walls, all designed at the studios of Christoph Behling Design in London, UK. Geberit is constantly adding sustainable innovations to its product portfolio each year, and 2016 is no exception, says a company spokesman.

Terex Minerals Processing Systems (MPS), a leader in material processing technology for modular, portable and static crushing and screening equipment, has launched its new MC380X Modular cone plant for aggregate and mining customers worldwide.

Materials washing specialist CDE Global recently marked the completion of installation of its latest sand washing plant in the Kuwait market.

Saudi-based alfanar group, a leading Saudi manufacturer of electrical products and provider of engineering services, said it is close to finalising the procedures to wholly acquire Germany-based Heinrich Kopp from Luxembourg-based private equity fund Palero Invest.

Technology leader Panasonic is targeting a 20 per cent growth for its global Eco Solutions business over the next two years driven by the huge infrastructure projects coming up in the region to host events such as the Expo 2020 in Dubai and the Fifa 2022 World Cup in Qatar.