Aggregate Industries

Aggregate Industries wins £20m home result

06/01/2025

Aggregate Industries has won a £20m contract to resurface and maintain Leicester's roads for the next two years.

Concrete answer to carbon sink

11/11/2024

A technology to remove carbon from the atmosphere and lock it into recycled concrete has been put on the UK market.

Aggregate Industries UK announces new CEO

16/07/2024

Aggregate Industries UK has appointed Lee Sleight as its new chief executive officer.

Aggregate Industries talkin' bout cold mix evolution

29/02/2024

Materials supplier Aggregate Industries has launched its onsite asphalt material, Foamix Eco, which it says can achieve carbon neutral status.

Can we achieve 'carbon negative' asphalt? Aggregate Industries says yes

22/01/2024

Aggregate Industries has completed a trial of its new Foamix product, which it said paves the way for carbon-negative asphalt.

Highways Asks you to help map net zero task

20/07/2023

Highways magazine, in partnership with Aggregate Industries, needs your contribution in its quest to support the highway sector's understanding of net zero and sustainability.

Aggregate Industries gets nod on £47m Leics repair deal

06/06/2023

Leicestershire and Leicester councils have picked local giant Aggregate Industries to deliver a five-year £47m road repair and maintenance contract covering 3,000 miles of highways across the county.

Aggregate Industries hoists the standard for warm mix

22/06/2022

Aggregate Industries has transitioned to warm mix asphalt production as standard across its asphalt product portfolio.

Derbyshire spends big on both 'strategic and non strategic' works

26/04/2022

Derbyshire County Council has awarded Aggregate Industries a contract worth £6.5m to carry out resurfacing work over the next year and is seeking bidders for further work worth a total of £24m.

Edgcumbe to lead Aggregate Industries' surfacing division

31/03/2022

Aggregate Industries has appointed Thomas Edgcumbe to its executive committee as managing director for surfacing solutions, with overall responsibility for its newly combined asphalt and contracting divisions.

Aggregate Industries opens mobile testing lab

23/06/2021

Aggregate Industries' contracting division has opened a ‘pioneering’ new laboratory for materials testing due to a 'dearth of testing facilities' in the contracting sector.

Aggregate Industries gets Preston link road job

03/06/2021

The contracting division of Aggregate Industries has won and started work on the contract to construct pavement for the £200m Preston Western Distributor Road.

Aggregate Industries appoints new divisional MD

15/01/2021

Aggregate Industries has appointed Andy Swinnerton as the new managing director of its aggregates division.

Northumbrian joins Aggregate Industries family

04/01/2021

Construction materials supplier Aggregate Industries has acquired independent road surfacing and highway maintenance contractor Northumbrian Roads Limited.

Aggregate Industries announces offsetting plans for 'carbon neutral' asphalt

14/10/2020

Aggregate Industries has pledged to make its low temperature SuperLow asphalt range carbon neutral through offsetting emissions.

Comment: Stepping up on health and safety

14/08/2020

Paddy Murphy, managing director of Aggregate Industries’ Contracting Division, discusses new initiatives that are designed to make high-risk activities as safe as possible

Aggregate Industries' 15th 'earn while you learn' apprenticeship programme 

30/01/2020

Ahead of National Apprenticeship Week (3-7 February), Aggregate Industries has launched its 2020 Apprenticeship Programme designed to offer people the chance to earn while they learn.

Former quarry transformed into Ripon City Wetlands

12/06/2019

A working aggregates quarry has been transformed into a new wetland haven for wildlife thanks to Aggregate Industries, which bought to rights in 2003, and Yorkshire Wildlife Trust (YWT).

Lafarge tackles carbon from the ground up with new cement blend

06/06/2019

Lafarge Cement has launched what it says is a ‘high performance, low carbon, CEM II blend cement’.

Native Edwards returns to lead Aggregate Industries UK

12/12/2018

Aggregate Industries UK has announced that Guy Edwards will take over as its CEO from January.

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