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CONFERENCE EXHIBITORS

Access Environmental Systems	14
Active Minerals Australia Pty Ltd	45
Advanced Engineering Group	8
allmineral Australia / STEINERT Australia	42
Astec Australia Pty Ltd	35, 37
ATK IT	52
BASF Australia Ltd	4, 5
Caterpillar	Truck Display
Cesco Australia Limited	12 + Display Area
CJD Equipment	49
Command Alkon	46
Concrete Pumping Association	32
Driver Education Centre of Australia Ltd	27
DrumBlaster	50 + Display Area
Eiengineering	39
Finlay Screening and Crushing	44
GCP Australia Pty Ltd	16, 18
Gordyn & Palmer	22
Hitachi Construction Machinery Australia	Truck Display
Haver & Boecker Australia and BHS-Sonthofen	51
HM Technologies Pty Ltd	23, 24
Joy Global Inc.	7
Komatsu Australia	Truck Display
Liebherr-Australia Pty Ltd	38
Locker Group Pty Ltd	26
MAPEI	11
Metso Australia Limited	31, 33
Michelin Tyres	6
Minprovise	13
N.L. Tucker + NBB Radio Controls Pty Ltd	25
Nepean Rubber Mouldings Pty Ltd	36
Position Partners	9
Precisionscreen Pty Ltd	34
Renishaw	43
Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology	40
Sika Australia	3
Société Le Nickel – SLN	10 + Display Area
Teletrac Navman	28
Terex Jaques	41
Trimble Loadrite	21
Ultra-Dynamics Pty Ltd	19, 20
Unit Process Consulting P/L	48
WAM Australia	17
Weightec (NZ) Ltd	2
Weir Minerals Australia Ltd	29, 30
Wirtgen Group – Kleemann	47

INVITATION TO PARTNER AND EXHIBIT

On behalf of the CMIC16 Organising Committee, it is our pleasure to invite you to participate in what will be the best CMIC yet.

WHO WILL ATTEND?

CMIC16 will attract more than 500 delegates from Australia and surrounding countries. All businesses in our industry, small or large, supplier or customer, are reviewing what they are currently doing and looking for improved efficiencies. In effect, they are building their productivity for the next phase of the business cycle.

Once again the Institute of Quarrying Australia (IQA) and Cement Concrete Aggregates Australia (CCAA) have joined forces to present CMIC16 as the preeminent conference for the construction materials industry.

WHY PARTNER AND/OR EXHIBIT AT CMIC16?

• Raise your profile in the industry and add value to your brand by showing your support for the most important event on the Construction Materials Industry calendar
• Participation offers a rare and valuable platform for you to interact with the whole cement, concrete and extractive industry in the one place at the one time
• Grow and strengthen personal and direct relationships with existing clients and new contacts
• Ideal setting to launch a new product or service to a captured audience in a growing trade display
• Exposure to over 600 participants, providing an opportunity to talk face-to-face with key industry decision makers, suppliers, service providers, education bodies and government regulators
• Reinforce your company’s image or introduce a new image
• Exhibition Open Day & Vendor Presentations are a unique opportunity to present your products and services to conference delegates as well as the general public

DOES YOUR COMPANY NEED A DIFFERENT PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITY?

We can help work with you to create a package that will help your company achieve results at CMIC16.

We also have a range of other advertising opportunities available including conference newsletters and social media posts. Contact us today to discuss your ideas and together we can develop the perfect package to suit your requirements and marketing objectives.

NEED MORE INFORMATION?

If you are interested in becoming a partner or exhibitor, please contact the Conference Organiser, International Conferences & Events on +61 2 9368 1200 or via email at partnership@cmic.com.au.

The study, Global Construction Aggregates Market – Key Trends and Opportunities to 2020 published by Timetric, concluded the global construction industry had been “relatively sluggish” since 2015, reflecting a slowdown in the pace of expansion in China and weakness in key emerging markets.

This slow rate of growth in aggregates was expected to continue into the rest of 2016; however, the report forecasted the construction industry would start gathering pace gain from next year.

The global construction aggregates market would post a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.15 per cent over the period 2016 to 2020, it predicted.

“This increase will be a result of government investment in public infrastructure and positive developments in regional and global economic conditions,” a Timetric company statement read.

Although the global value of the market fell in 2015 in nominal US dollar terms, the report found it registered a CAGR of 0.95 per cent between 2011 and 2015.

Asia-Pacific was the largest regional market for aggregates last year, accounting for 47.9 per cent of the global market. It was followed by North America and Europe with respective shares of 21.5 per cent and 18 per cent.

The statement also noted: “Improvements in the global demand for aggregates over the forecast period are in line with the positive projections for construction industry growth, with the key drivers being investment in infrastructure and residential construction in emerging economies, and anticipated recovery in regional and global economic conditions.”

The US and China

According to Timetric, the US would retain its position as the second largest market by 2020 and the prospects of the US construction industry were good due to a need to upgrade the country’s ageing infrastructure.

Despite the weakening of demand in China over the past couple of years, the country remained a “sizeable market”, accounting for 32.9 per cent of the global market in 2015.

“The infrastructure construction market will be supported by government investments under the 13^th five-year plan (2016-2020), through which the government plans to invest CNY3.8 trillion ($AUD710 billion) in new rail projects and CNY1.7 trillion (AUD361 billion) in road infrastructure by 2020,” it stated.

The report’s findings about China correlate with a recent report by the Global Aggregates Information Network (GAIN) – a coalition of the major international aggregates associations across the world.

As previously reported by Quarry, GAIN noted China’s aggregates output in 2016 remains at the 2015 level of 15 billion tonnes; however, the 13^th five-year economic development programme requiring major further investment in infrastructure meant the sector’s future looked bright for the next 15 to 20 years.

The GAIN report found in all the countries where it has a presence, aggregate production tonnages were either stable or increasing, which bodes well for the industry as a whole.

 

BC Iron (BCI) is selling its 75 per cent stake in the mothballed Nullagine joint venture (NJV) to Fortescue.

The project was a 75:25 joint venture between the two companies, with the mine operating for five years before operations were suspended last yeardue to low iron ore prices.

Since the suspension, BC Iron considered either restarting the operations or selling its interest;indicating that a restart was unlikely.

“Despite the identification of further operating cost savings and an improvement in iron ore prices, the Nullagine mine had remained marginal from BC Iron’s perspective and, based on projected future iron ore prices, it is unlikely that a restart of operations will become viable in the medium term under the current joint venture structure,” the company said, thus proceeding with the sale.

Fortescue will take on BCI’s liabilities and obligations, including the existing site.

“Nullagine has been a successful operation and BC Iron shareholders have extracted significant value from it over a number of years,” BCI chairman Tony Kiernan said.

“BC Iron has now concluded that the sale to Fortescue offers the best potential from a future BC Iron value and risk perspective.”

Earlier this year BCI and Watpac settled a legal dispute over funds owed after Watpac’s mining contract was terminated at Nullagine.

BCI terminated the mining contract with Watpac last year due to the continued decline of iron ore prices, with the company saying it was obligated to make a one off contract termination payment to Watpac.

Watpac later launched legal action claiming it was owed $12.5 million, with the BCI eventually providing a confidential sum to settle the case.

Last update, we triumphantly proclaimed thatcommodities were “back”.

However, we did forget to add one important caveat, which is that they could still get hit hard in the short-term by the classic “Sell in May and Go Away”market sentiment.

In Q3, commodities as a whole entered a “summer slump”, returning -5.7% as measured by the GSCI (Goldman Sachs Commodity Index). Performance was dragged down mostly by agricultural goods such as wheat, corn, and soybeans, but also by uranium which had another poor quarter.

Despite this bump in the road, most commodities are still having big years on a YTD basis:

• Silver, crude oil, and zinc are all up over 30% on the year.
• Gold, palladium, natural gas, and nickel are all up over 20%
• Uranium is the only metal in red, down over -30%

Here’s Q3 and YTD performance for each commodity:

There’s no doubt that Q4 will be another interesting quarter for the sector.

In November, the U.S. election will take place, and pundits are warning that a certain result would cause extreme market volatility. At the same time, some experts think that this unpredictability could fuel a mega-rally in gold and other precious metals. We think both of these things are possibilities.

Meanwhile, the recent tentative OPEC deal has brought crude oil to four-month highs. However, markets are skeptical that the deal is for real, and the general sentiment seems to be that a production freeze may fail to materialize as all parties try to finalize the deal.

What are your predictions for commodities over the next three months?