2020 / 2021 Edition
Quarrying
TARMAC group chief executive Roy Harrison has been appointed as president of the newly formed Construction Products Association (CPA), the industry body set up to act as the official voice of the...
ACCORDING to the Quarry Products Association's latest quarterly report, market indicators suggest a more stable outlook for sales of quarry products in 2000 and beyond following a year of...
LAST month saw further activity in the current trend towards consolidation and globalization of the UK building materials industry, with Lafarge launching a £3.4 billion hostile takeover bid for...
FINNING International Inc. have announced the appointment of Jack Carthy as managing director of Finning (UK) Ltd.
HANSON have strengthened their presence in the concrete products sector by merging their UK blocks, pipes and precast operations into a new division - Hanson Concrete Products.
THE Construction Products Association has issued an 'Eight-Point Blueprint' for the construction industry as part of its Budget submission to the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
In line with their stated intention to expand their English aggregates business by acquisition, Ennstone are reported to be considering a bid for Breedon.
According to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics, 2.96 billion bricks were produced by, and 3.01 billion bricks were delivered from, sites in Great Britain during 1999.
Tarmac Concrete Products managing director David Blount has been elected to the regional council of the West Midlands CBI.
THE last chapter in the long-running debate over the proposed introduction of an aggregates tax appears to be drawing to a close, with the Chancellor expected to make an announcement in this month...
AS expected, Anglo American will have to offer a number of quarries and plants for divestment in order to prevent their £1.2 billion bid for Tarmac being referred to the Competition Commission.
A NEW purpose-built road at Croxden, Stoke-on-Trent, which represents a £2 million investment by Tarmac, was officially opened last December.
DURING 7-12 May 2000, the 36th North American Forum on the Geology of Industrial Minerals will, for the first and possibly only time, be combined with the 11th UK Extractive Industry Geology (EIG...