Aggregate Industries

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.

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.

15/01/2021

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

04/01/2021

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

14/10/2020

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

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

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.

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).

06/06/2019

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

12/12/2018

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

06/07/2018

From flags to cupcakes, all month companies have been celebrating diversity in support for the LGBT community.

10/05/2018

Aggregate Industries has won a £70m contract to deliver the surfacing works for England’s largest current road improvement project.

14/11/2016

Demand for asphalt has begun to fall after two years of solid growth, according to research carried out by BDS Marketing.

09/08/2016

Exeter-based SWH Group has teamed up with the local arm of Aggregate Industries to provide practical training exercises to construction and civil engineering apprentices.

04/11/2015

Aggregate Industries’ Colemans Quarry site has become the first asphalt plant in the UK to make the switch to Liquefied natural gas (LNG).

18/02/2015

Aggregate Industries’ contracting division closed 2014 with a 37% increase in volume on the previous year, helped by a number of contract wins in the highways market.

04/08/2014

Wight Building Materials has officially opened a new asphalt plant that will supply the public and private highways network on the Isle of the Wight.

25/07/2014

Road workers working on behalf of Aggregate Industries will wear a new range of high visibility personal protective equipment (PPE) supplied by Fhoss.

05/06/2014

Aggregate Industries and Galliford Try are the new contractors on the revamped version of the Midlands Highways Alliance (MHA) contract, which will see spending of £261 million over the next four years.

09/04/2014

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has told Breedon Aggregates that it must sell two of its Scottish plants.