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Brick maker Ibstock plc is committing to reduce its plastic use by 40% by 2025. To help meet its target the company is seeking to remove at least 200 tonnes of plastic shrink wrap from across the Group by the end of 2021 – the equivalent of 8.3 million soft …

Yorkshire and North East independent builders’ merchant James Burrell has had a strong start to 2021 following an upbeat trading performance and strengthening of its balance sheet, shown by its newly filed accounts for the year to October 2020. Despite the impact of nationally imposed restrictions during the first lockdown …

Construction product manufacturing is continuing it recovery into the first quarter of 2021, according to the Construction Product Association’s latest State of Trade Survey, thanks the private housing, infrastructure and the repair and maintenance sectors. However, a constrained global supply of raw materials and components, as well as the associated …

Psychologist and sports-performance coach Jamil Qureshi, author The Mind Coach, is to speak at the BMF All Industry Conference 2021 taking place in November. Qureshi has worked with some of the world’s top individuals and teams in sport and business.  His presentation will share practical insights into the psychology of …

Andrew Griffith MP, the UK’s Net Zero Business Champion, has been confirmed as a headline speaker at the BMF Members’ Day Conference on 23 September 2021, which takes the theme “Reshape, Renew, Rebuild.”  He will be the main speaker within a segment of the Conference dedicated to sustainable construction and …

Interior building products distributor CCF, part of the Travis Perkins Group, has worked in collaboration with Electra, to launch the UK’s first 27 tonne curtainside Battery Electric Vehicle, with 287kwh traction batteries. It is launched today (April 19). The product of three years of development driven forward by CCF, the …

Triton Showers has raised money for its charity partner Zoë’s Place Baby Hospice, via an Easter raffle organised by staff, the proceeds of which were matched by Triton who rounded the total up to £2,000. Based in Exhall, Zoë’s Place offers respite to families with babies and infants suffering from life-limiting …

Grafton, the Irish builders merchanting group is reviewing its mainland UK merchanting interests in a process that it says “may or may not result in the sale of some or all of these businesses.” The group has brought in the merchant bank Rothschild to conduct a review of its  merchant …

Bradfords Building Supplies has announced a new one-year agreement with Somerset County Cricket Club to become the club’s Official Pathway Partner. The Somerset County Cricket Club Pathway gives talented young cricketers from across the region the opportunity to further develop their potential within an elite environment and aids their development …

Derbyshire-based insulation manufacturer, YBS Insulation has received a £250,000 loan to progress its growth plans. YBS will use the funding, from the Midlands Engine Investment Fund East & South East Midlands Debt Finance Fund, managed by Maven Capital Partners, to invest in new production machinery to increase its output capacity, …