UK cement news

The company has provided Vertua low carbon concrete for a new office development in the Climate Innovation District in Leeds.

The company has announced its investment in Modulous, a company with a disruptive offsite construction system, enabled by a digital platform, to allow the high-speed delivery of quality, sustainable and affordable homes.

A total of 400 million t of essential aggregates, industrial minerals and other manufactured mineral products were produced in Great Britain in 2018, according to the latest figures published in ‘Profile of the UK Mineral Products Industry’, by the Mineral Products Association (MPA), making the sector the UK’s biggest producer by volume.

Jeremy will help marshall the collective resources within MPA in The Concrete Centre, MPA Cement, BRMCA and British Precast as part of the sector’s roadmap to go ‘Beyond Net Zero by 2050’.

The company has appointed James Haluch as Managing Director of its GB Contracting business. He will join in March and will report to the Group’s Chief Executive.

The company has confirmed an investment of over £5 million into two new plastic packing lines for packed cement at its Rugby Cement Plant.

The company has joined The 5% Club, which aims to create a shared prosperity by driving ‘earn and learn’ training opportunities, helping to address the skills shortage and youth unemployment in the UK.

The acquisition is in line with Aggregate Industries’ Strategy 2022 – ‘Building for Growth’ and will allow the company to strengthen its market position in order to support the much-needed major infrastructure schemes which will lead the economic recovery following the Covid-19 pandemic.

The company has confirmed that the sale of its award-winning Attenborough Nature Reserve to the Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust has been finalised.

Hanson’s 2020 sustainability report, which covers the 2019 calendar year, highlights the progress the company has made towards its 2020 targets and how it is building on these with its 2030 commitments.