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.