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Morgan Evans retires from Penderyn after 42 years

General foreman, Morgan Evans has retired after 42 years of service at Penderyn Quarry.

Morgan started at the quarry as a fixed...

  • Press Release
  • 27 April 2018

Heidelberg Materials Cement – our plans to divert Empingham Road

Background

In 2002 Castle Cement obtained planning permission for an extension to Grange Top quarry at Ketton to...

  • Press Release
  • 13 February 2018

Shardlow quarry raise £1,500 for Macmillan cancer support

Shardlow quarry held a fundraising coffee morning on October, 2nd this year and monetary donations were received from our staff, visiting contractors...

  • Press Release
  • 22 November 2017

Apprentice candidates visit Penderyn quarry for Insight Day

Penderyn quarry held an Insight Day for 7 students who have applied for the Heidelberg Materials apprenticeship programme.

It was...

  • Press Release
  • 23 March 2018

Hospice helpers’ team effort pays off

Donated materials and labour worth around £20,000 have helped improve a memorial garden at a children’s hospice in south Wales.

The...

  • Press Release
  • 3 June 2018

Abby's quarry research will benefit bats

If Abby Mullen can discover what bats need to thrive in quarries, it could help make restoration planning more effective.

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  • Press Release
  • 3 September 2018

Rescue teams hail 'fantastic' emergency exercise

Lanehead quarry at Ribblesdale cement works in Lancashire was used to stage a major 10-hour emergency exercise involving more than 90 people. The exercise...

  • Press Release
  • 13 July 2018

Nature reserve opening is ‘progress through partnership’

More than 40 people representing community groups, conservation bodies and local government attended the official opening of the Tice’s Meadow nature...

  • Press Release
  • 13 May 2018

Festival-goers enjoy quarry rock show

More than 400 people attended an open day at Chipping Sodbury quarry organised as part of the south Gloucestershire town’s 2018 festival.

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  • Press Release
  • 2 July 2018

Volunteers' clean sweep

Employees from quarries across the East Mendips in Somerset, including Whatley, took part in a litter pick to clean up roads around their sites.

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  • Press Release
  • 7 June 2018

Village link upgraded

A popular footpath which links two villages in south Wales has been given an upgrade with a donation of stone from Penderyn quarry.

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  • Press Release
  • 29 June 2018

Wonderful donation creates memorial

A memorial for a World War Two veteran created using a donated MQP granite boulder has been unveiled.

The two-tonne block in the...

  • Press Release
  • 23 May 2018

Council thanks for caring crew

A hospice has a new access road to Silo boosts storage its fundraising field, thanks to a team that included a contracting surfacing crew.

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  • Press Release
  • 21 June 2018

History hoard on display

Memorabilia collected by storeman Steve Goodbody from Ketton cement plant’s 90-year history has gone on show at the opening of a visitor centre. ...

  • Press Release
  • 16 July 2018

Ribblesdale Works Open Day 29th September

Ribblesdale Works will be holding their 2018 Open Day on Saturday 29 September from 10am to 4pm. No tickets are required.

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  • Press Release
  • 3 August 2018
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