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The construction industry’s first-ever Tarmac Fairy makes her debut in this year’s Tarmac festive film – will she spend the festive period searching high and low, wondering where everyone has gone? Or will she find a way to unlock the spirit of Christmas?

Tarmac has unveiled the UK’s first battery electric concrete mixer featuring a hand-drawn design by an eight-year-old competition winner from Wolverhampton, in the West Midlands.

Bradfords Building Supplies has taken its first delivery of Tarmac bagged cement loaded on Pallet LOOP pallets into its Glastonbury branch, marking the first end-to-end trial of a new circular economy pallet re-use scheme for the UK construction sector.

On the one-year anniversary of a project designed to boost trout numbers in Yorkshire, a study by a national conservation charity has highlighted the initiative is proving a success.

From the Staffordshire Moors to the Humber Estuary, a source-to-sea walking path alongside the River Trent is taking big steps towards completion thanks to a £68,194 donation from the Tarmac Landfill Communities Fund.

We’re always keen to encourage personal and professional growth, so we like to shout about how we’re working to support individuals as they embark on their educational journeys. Here’s a round-up of our latest student success stories. 

Tarmac has been awarded Gold accredited membership via The 5% Club’s 2022-23 Employer Audit Scheme.

From 2 to 3 November, team Tarmac will be attending Highways UK, at the NEC in Birmingham, showcasing brand-new process and programme modelling equipment, PAVE Technology Solutions – the first time the technology will be revealed to the public.

The Institute of Quarrying (IQ) and Institute of Asphalt Technology (IAT) have commended high-performing students from the University of Derby Centre for Mineral Products at a joint awards ceremony – with praise for two Tarmac employees.

Two of the country's leading construction materials suppliers have joined forces to reinstate a viewing platform popular with walkers and the community near Lancaster.