Quarry Products

Whitemountain Quarries Ltd, Lagan Asphalt Ltd, and Lagan Materials Ltd have rebranded as Breedon Ireland.

Vulcan Materials, America’s biggest construction aggregates producer, is poised to leverage “attractive growth in aggregates unit profitability” after seeing its first-quarter aggregates sales rise 25% year-on-year to US$1.121 billion ($894.9mn Q1 2021).

Vulcan Materials says it is close to reaching an agreement with the Mexican government over its aggregates operations in the country.

National nonresidential construction spending was down 0.8% in March, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) analysis of data published by the U.S. Census Bureau. On a seasonally adjusted annualised basis, nonresidential spending totalled US$839.2 billion for the month.

CRH has announced the completion of the sale of its Building Envelope business to KPS Capital Partners for US$3.8 billion.

Hanson is supplying low carbon concrete to help transform Gatwick Airport station in southeast England as part of Network Rail’s plans to upgrade and improve the experience of rail users.

Construction materials group Breedon says it has made an encouraging start to the year, with order intake and volumes following usual seasonal patterns through the first three months of 2022.