TWO of Aggregate Industries’ employees have been recognised for their outstanding achievements and commitment to the minerals extractives industry at this year’s Institute of Quarrying (IoQ) Fellow Lunch and Student Awards. Dave Owen, an asphalt plant manager at Aggregate Industries, and Katie Sexton, a graduate management trainee, were both awarded for excelling academically in the...
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Aggregate Industries brings the natural touch to Cotswold care home
AGGREGATE Industries has helped complete a 31-bedroom extension to a care home located in the Cotswold town of Fairford, after successfully supplying walling and roofing products from its Bradstone range of structural products. The extension work was carried out at Hyperion House, a residential and nursing care home, managed by Diva Care. It offers nursing...
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Progressive Welsh policy on SuDS begins to create waves
WITH Wales leading the march in its progressive adoption of Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS), Aggregate Industries has emphasised the important opportunity this powerful approach could also have in enhancing flood mitigation efforts across the wider UK. In a major step forward for flood management policy, this January (2019) saw the Welsh Government enforce new legislation...
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Aggregate Industries wash plant scoops prestigious IQ Excellence award
THE recently updated wash plant at Aggregate Industries’ Bardon Hill Quarry has won a coveted IQ Excellence Award for Most Effective Process Improvement in the North of England. The award was given for the vast improvements made to the site’s CDE wash plant, which more than doubled production of highly valuable products by adding a...
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Maxi Readymix Concrete Limited sold to Aggregate Industries
MAXI property development and investment group of companies, owned by Jim Abraham, has successfully completed the sale of Maxi Readymix Concrete Limited, based on the Enderby Road Industrial Estate, Leicester, to Aggregate Industries, a member of the LafargeHolcim group. Maxi Readymix Concrete Limited was founded in October 2014 and throughout the years has made a...
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Aggregate Industries adds a touch of green to landmark Devonshire Retail Park
LEADING the charge on bespoke colour demarcation, Aggregate Industries has recently supplied its pioneering green, blue and buff coloured asphalts to Devonshire Retail Park, as part of a major expansion of the Torbay area. Situated on Devon’s south coast and as one of the region’s largest mixed-used development schemes, Devonshire Retail Park sits on the...
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Aggregate Industries adds a splash of colour to Dogs Trust with blue concrete
AS part of a larger, ongoing project, leading construction materials supplier Aggregate Industries has supplied Dogs Trust in Darlington with coloured concrete to brighten up its new outdoor play space. The 5m3 of ArteviaTM concrete in ‘ocean blue’ forms the base of a water run in the rescue and adoption centre’s yard, and is part...
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Aggregate Industries calls on industry to dig deeper for diversity
AMID this year’s National Inclusion Week (23-29 September), Aggregate Industries has commented that, despite progress being made, there is still more employers can do to support diversity, inclusion and equality across the construction industry. Created and run by Inclusive Employers, National Inclusion Week is an annual opportunity to raise awareness of inclusion in the workplace....
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Aggregate Industries ups capacity with new Manchester concrete plant
AGGREGATE Industries has opened its second ready mix concrete plant in Greater Manchester, in order to cater to rapidly growing demand in the area. The new high-capacity site – conveniently located just off the M56 in Wythenshawe – is situated between Manchester city centre and Manchester Airport. Both areas are currently undergoing a high volume...
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Aggregate Industries lays landmark millionth tonne on A14 project
LEADING construction and infrastructure player Aggregate Industries, working in collaboration with the A14 Integrated Delivery Team, has laid its millionth tonne of material on Highways England’s A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Improvement Scheme. The achievement coincides with the project’s designated, on-site asphalt plant producing its 350,000th tonne for use on the improvement scheme. In addition to...