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Tarmac, the UK’s leading sustainable building materials and construction solutions business, has begun a trial of a ground-breaking fuel conditioner as part of its ongoing corporate commitment reducing emissions across its nationwide fleet of heavy goods vehicles.

Runners in Buxton, Derbyshire, recently put their best foot forward to take part in the Buxton Half Marathon, sponsored by Tarmac’s Tunstead Quarry.

Visitors to Amelia Trust Farm are more sure-footed thanks to a 37-tonne donation of stone chippings from Tarmac.

Tarmac is proud to announce plans to plant 17,000 trees at Panshanger Park, creating a new woodland as part of the Queen’s Green Canopy initiative in celebration of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.

Young scientists, engineers and technical experts of the future are bringing together their big ideas to help save the planet with the help of Tarmac.

Tarmac’s Mountsorrel Quarry has helped a local football club shore up its defences against vehicle damage by donating material to fill in potholes in its car park. 

A women’s team made their own piece of history when they lifted the silverware in the Tarmac annual football tournament.

Tarmac is helping movie makers and film producers achieve stunning backdrops to their blockbusters with a new online guide to the company’s many and varied quarries and sites that could make the perfect film set. 

Tarmac’s Swinden Quarry, near Grassington in Yorkshire, has shown its support to the local community by sponsoring a miner’s bouse cart as part of the village’s Grassington in Bloom initiative.

Cricketers in the Bedfordshire town of Sandy have been put back at the crease thanks to a donation from the Tarmac Landfill Communities Fund.