Aggregate Industries snaps up Midlands ready-mix firm

14 October 2019, by Maxine Perella

Aggregate Industries has acquired Maxi Readymix Concrete, an independent ready-mix concrete business in Leicestershire, for an undisclosed sum.

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Peel Environmental submits plans for plastics-to-hydrogen plant

14 October 2019, by Maxine Perella

Peel Environmental has submitted plans to build a £7m waste plastic-to-hydrogen facility at its Protos site near Ellesmere Port in Cheshire.

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