Quarrying
Traffic to and from Tarmac's Barrasford Quarry in Northumberland has travelled along a network of lanes, passing through the neighbouring village, for over 100 years.
At this morning's AGM, Christopher Collins, chairman, made the following comments regarding the acquisition of Pioneer International Ltd and the outlook for Hanson.
CANTERBURY-based Robert Brett and Sons have expanded their operations with the acquisition of Greenham Construction Materials, a wholly owned subsidiary of Taylor Woodrow, for £29.8 million.
BY rejecting the 'New Deal', the Government has missed the opportunity to work with the quarrying industry to achieve significant and continuing environmental advancements.
ON 2 March the construction materials businesses of Anglo Industrial Minerals (AIM) were formally merged with Tarmac plc to create a new market-leading business with a turnover in excess of £1.4...
AS expected with a merger of this scale, there have been several casualties among Tarmac's top ranks.
THE University of Nottingham, Shell Bitumen and Shell Global Solutions (UK) have announced plans for a multimillion pound initiative to construct and operate a purpose-built, state-of-the-art...
HANSON Aggregates are spending £650 million on two projects to upgrade and improve the efficiency and environmental performance of the 26-year-old lime-burning kiln at Batts Combe Quarry in...
NORDBERG (UK) Ltd have been appointed as the sole UK distributors of the Broyt range of track- and wheel-mounted faceshovels.
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.
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.