Lutterworth Rugby Football Club, in Leicestershire, has been able to tackle much-needed renovations thanks to a £50,000 donation from the Tarmac Landfill Communities Fund.
Playground makeover in Coltishall made possible thanks to £26,600 donation
A £26,600 donation from the Tarmac Landfill Communities Fund has enabled the renovation of a playground for children in Coltishall.
£63k grant helps complete village hall refurbishment
Following a £63,625 funding boost, a Norwich village hub is now open for the public to use for social activities, celebrations or clubs.
Shadow industry minister visits Tarmac’s Tunstead Quarry
Bill Esterson MP, shadow industry minister, has visited Tarmac’s flagship Tunstead site near Buxton, Derbyshire, to tour the combined quarrying, cement and lime manufacturing operation, one of the largest in the UK. Mr Esterson was accompanied by Jon Pearce, the Labour Party Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for High Peak.
UK’s first all-electric mixer demonstrates pathway to low carbon logistics
The UK’s first all-electric ready-mix concrete mixer has successfully completed a three-month trial of commercial deliveries across Birmingham for Tarmac, marking a significant step on the path to net zero construction.
Tarmac a step closer to world first CCS zero emissions lime plant
Tarmac, in collaboration with Leilac, has moved a step closer to delivering the world’s first zero emissions lime plant, having passed the due diligence phase with The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) as part of the Industrial Carbon Capture (ICC) funding scheme, track 1 phase 2.
Tarmac’s donation sees Trent Vale Trail extended
Green Lane, in Girton, Nottinghamshire – which stretches 1,790 metres – has been redeveloped and added to the Trent Vale Trail, thanks to a £75,251 donation from the Tarmac Landfill Communities Fund.
Tarmac welcomes Welwyn 10k to Panshanger Park
The 2023 Welwyn 10k run is proudly being hosted by the Tarmac-owned Panshanger Park, in partnership with organisers Garden City Runners (GCR).
The peril of potholes: planning ahead for longer life roads
The perennial issue of potholes finds itself in the spotlight again following the results of the ALARM survey published by the Asphalt Industry Alliance (AIA) today, which reports that local authority highway teams in England and Wales only received around two-thirds of what they needed to stop our local roads from further deterioration. In addition, that more than £14 billion is now needed to fix the backlog* of carriageway repairs.
Paving for a rainy day – By Brian Kent, national technical director at Tarmac
As many of us Brits are aware, the weather in the UK is famously unpredictable and probably why we’re known for discussing the weather – a lot. Yet, despite high-profile examples of flash flooding and extreme heat, too often our preoccupation with the changing climate has seen little action.
