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Employees from Tarmac’s Tunstead site recently supported a science fair attended by local school children.

A welcome donation from Tarmac’s Mountsorrel Quarry, near Loughborough, has resulted in the installation of new speed warning signs on two busy local roads.

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.

A £26,600 donation from the Tarmac Landfill Communities Fund has enabled the renovation of a playground for children in Coltishall.

Following a £63,625 funding boost, a Norwich village hub is now open for the public to use for social activities, celebrations or clubs.

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.

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, 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. 

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.

The 2023 Welwyn 10k run is proudly being hosted by the Tarmac-owned Panshanger Park, in partnership with organisers Garden City Runners (GCR).