Celebrating our first anniversary as Heidelberg Materials

It’s our anniversary! A year ago today we  rebranded as Heidelberg Materials to align with our parent company, and what a busy 12 months it has been.

In addition to implementing the rebrand - we’ve already changed the livery of more than 1,200 of our vehicles and delivered new signage to over 70 per cent of our sites -  we’ve also made some major investments in the business, welcoming both  Mick George Limited and  B&A Group to the Heidelberg Materials family and becoming 100per cent owners of  Smiths Concrete.

We’ve opened a new  recycling hub at Appleford, Oxfordshire; invested in a mobile  cold recycling mixing plant to produce lower carbon cold mix materials for road construction and maintenance projects; and introduced  digital solutions to make it easier and more efficient for our customers to do business with us. 

In addition, we’ve continued to progress our plans to build a  carbon capture plant at our Padeswood cement works in north Wales, including signing a  front-end engineering and design contract with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Worley. 

We also launched a trial using  C-Capture’s solvent-based carbon capture technology as well as a groundbreaking project to establish the feasibility of  using ammonia as a source of hydrogen for use as a fuel in cement kilns.

Other milestones include:

• Becoming the first building materials company to achieve certification to the updated  BES 6001 responsibly sourcing standard across our business.
• Reaching the updated  PAS 2080:2023 standard on managing and reducing whole-life carbon in the built environment.
• Developing revised UK  sustainability commitments for 2030 and beyond, giving us clear and measurable goals to help us build a more sustainable future.
• Launching our  2024 sustainability report.
• Hosting two more  Let’s Talk Sustainability webinars – covering biodiversity and the decarbonisation challenge. 
• Welcoming a wide range of visitors – including school children, local residents, ministers and MPs – to our sites across the country to educate and inform about the importance of the minerals sector.
• Supported numerous community projects through the donation of time, money and materials.
• Being one of only a handful of employers to be  awarded platinum membership of The 5% Club, demonstrating our commitment to offering earn and learn training opportunities.
• Launching the sixth round of our biodiversity research competition, the  Quarry Life Award.

We have also enjoyed success both at a business and individual level in numerous industry awards, showcasing our commitment to exceptional project delivery and supporting our employees to reach their full potential.