Geoscience Ireland (GI) is delighted to welcome CDE to the business network. CDE is the world's number one wet processing equipment company for sand and aggregates, mining, C&D waste recycling and industrial sands.

CDE's headquarters and factory facilities are based in Cookstown, Co Tyrone, Northern Ireland, and its global network includes offices and facilities in the USA, Brazil, Austria, Australia, Dubai, South Africa and India. In servicing operations on five continents, CDE's mining expertise includes iron ore, diamond, graphite, mineral sands and gold operations. CDE presented its expertise and project experience at the 'Ireland – Open for Business' forum at the annual Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada conference last March; GI will be participating at the Mining Show in Dubai this November and looks forward to working with CDE and Invest Northern Ireland, as well as the Irish contingent comprising Enterprise Ireland and GI members.

In welcoming CDE to GI, Koen Verbruggen, Director Geological Survey Ireland, said "I'm delighted to welcome CDE to Geoscience Ireland given its global expertise in the mining and quarrying sector; CDE also becomes GI's first Northern Ireland member and we look forward to continuing to promote the all-island approach to selling Ireland as a destination of geoscience and mining expertise."