Supply Chain

British Gypsum has been given planning permission for a 91-hectare expansion of Fauld Mine in Staffordshire. The mine, at Newchurch, Burton, is the principal UK supplier of gypsum for use in the manufacture of cement. It supplies seven cement works. Plans were approved by Staffordshire County Council last week. The…

Tool hire company HSS has announced the closure of 134 branches and made 300 staff redundant. In a statement released with financial results for the half-year ended 27 June 2020, the firm said around 30 per cent of its custom is now online, and online operations would receive further investment.…

Advocates of sustainable construction must ensure the terms they use are understood by those they’re speaking to. Several panellists at Construction News’s Decarbonising Construction online conference warned that the use of jargon can be unhelpful when dealing with supply chains and the wider public, but stressed the need to try…

Concrete and cement producers have warned the industry needs “robust financial support” from government “no later than 2021” to address the costs of developing industrial-scale carbon capture technology. The Mineral Products Association (MPA) has set out steps it says are required to bring overall carbon emissions from their products below…

The Mineral Products Association (MPA) has called for the chancellor to delay tax changes to red diesel when he sets out his comprehensive spending review later this year. In a formal submission to the Treasury ahead of chancellor Rishi Sunak’s review, the trade body said the construction industry will still…

Figures published by the Builders Merchant Federation (BMF) have revealed the extent to which the construction industry’s recovery could be hit if the UK's transition period out of the EU ends without a deal. The body, representing 751 merchants and suppliers with combined sales of £38bn, said it expects trade…

The new Port of Tilbury could be used to move offsite components made in warehouses into central London sites by river or rail, the commercial director of its expansion project has said. Tilbury2, a £250m port, built next to the existing Port of Tilbury in Essex, features a freight ferry…

Cement manufacturer Cemex has agreed a deal that will enable it to develop affordable, industrial-scale approaches to reducing the CO2 released by the cement industry. The firm outlined its plans to work with Carbon Clean, a UK-based pioneer of carbon-capture technology, to adapt the tech company’s modular carbon capture and…

Breedon is to sell off some of its assets over competition concerns surrounding its acquisition of around 100 sites from Cemex in a £178m deal. The firm announced this morning that it had told the Competitions and Markets Authority (CMA) it will offload a “small number” of ready-mixed concrete plants…

The Construction Leadership Council (CLC) has set up a group that will release industry guidance on Brexit ahead of the close of the transition period in the new year. The Brexit working group also will aim to identify critical issues facing the industry in the event of the UK failing…