Germany: Hosokawa Alpine will sell and rent out pre-owned process-technological machines. It has announced that its new rental and used equipment division will uphold the usual Alpine quality.

US: Munson has launched a ribbon blender for the homogenisation of dry bulk solids, including gypsum plaster. The unit, which can also blend solids with liquids from its spray lines to pastes or slurries, has a volume of 2.4m³. The company reports that its novel bag dump, which draws dust into filter cartridges by intermittent blasts from a number of nozzles, will improve worker safety and plant hygiene.

Azerbaijan: Azerbaijan produced 7000t of building gypsum in the eight months to the end of August 2019, a decrease of 82% from 38,000t in the corresponding period of 2018. Total production in the construction materials sector grew in value by 4.3% to US$303m from US$291m from January to August 2018.

Peru: Eternit plans to start upgrading its Huachipa gypsum wallboard plant in 2020. It wants to start investing in the project in early 2020, according to the El Comercio newspaper. Following the upgrade the plant will double its production capacity by the end of 2021. The subsidiary of Belgium’s Etex wants to benefit from increased usage of wallboard products in the country. It was 0.45m2/capita in 2018 and the company is aiming to increase this to 1m2/capita by 2025.