Global building materials solutions supplier Cemex has announced the opening of a new facility in Swindon, Wiltshire, dedicated to lower carbon dry mortar and sprayed concrete production. The new plant will enable Cemex UK’s Mortar business to increase production capacity in the South East and South West, and ensure it …
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Builders merchant Travis Perkins has announced its half year results for the 6 months to June 30 2026. The group reported a resilient performance, with early progress made in improving General Merchant turnaround, expanding gross margins through effective pass-through of price inflation, favourable sales mix and procurement gains. Adjusted operating profit, …
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Roofing manufacturer BMI UK & Ireland has crowned its 2026 BMI Apprentice of the Year winners, with George Mcilhiney winning the Flat Roof category and Alexander Dempsey recognised as the Pitched Roof winner. Now in its ninth year, the competition was hosted at the BMI Academy near Gloucester, where 20 …
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Building materials distributor SIG posted a pre-tax loss of £21.6m in the six months to June 30 2026, a better result than the same time last year’s £33.1m losses. Turnover this time dipped to £1.29bn from £1.3bn. The company is pushing ahead with its efficiency drive to save £100m by …
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Six building product suppliers have been shortlisted for the inaugural Data Yard Data Excellence Award. The new award, sponsored by Epicor, was created by Data Yard, the industry owned data pool established by BMF and NMBS, to celebrate organisations that are helping to raise standards for product data across the …
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Builders merchant Elliotts has launched a new Help You Build Guarantee. The guarantee, available across Elliotts’ branch network, covers product availability, delivery performance and pricing. Under the new Help You Build Guarantee: If a guaranteed-range product is unavailable when a customer arrives to collect it, Elliotts will get it to …
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The voting window for the BMJ Industry Awards 2026 has now closed and the votes have been counted and verified. The winners and runners-up will be announced at the BMJ Industry Awards lunch on Friday September 25th at the Hilton Bankside Hotel, London. Tickets are available on this link. …
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Online timber merchant Timbersource is offering to supply the timber needed to recreate the Trojan Horse for a discounted price. Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ sailed to £65 million in the box office on its second weekend, and has driven online searches for mythology’s most famous horse, referenced in Homer’s epic, …
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Groundwork is progressing on the UK’s first carbon capture facility at Heidelberg Materials UK’s Padeswood site. The Padeswood carbon capture and storage (CCS) facility, in north Wales, is designed to capture around 95 per cent of the carbon emissions from the existing cement works, around 800,000 tonnes a year once running …
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Building materials distributor Lords Group Trading plc has released its H1 trading update ahead of the Group’s interim results in September. Covering the six month period up to June 30 2026, the H1 Summary reported a group revenue of £232.0 million (H1 2025: £232.8 million), a resilient performance bolstered by …
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