Offering customers greater flexibility

A number of major improvements in our ordering and delivery systems have allowed us to offer customers greater flexibility - we have the ability to offer builders' merchants mixed loads. And our customers like the idea of taking a 'trailer of everything', whether it be 20k bags of decorative aggregates; mortars, specialist sands or 850k dumpy bags of base aggregates - all in Heidelberg Materials branded packaging.

And the new black and white packaging for base aggregates such as sand, gravel, ballast and limestone chippings is proving popular as it creates a family of products which is easily recognisable by the merchant and his customer; a further bonus is that products come with the European Union's CE conformity mark.

As one of the UK's leading producers of construction materials, Heidelberg Materials understands that the supply of base aggregates could come under pressure in the next four to five years with such major projects as HS2 on the horizon but be reassured our significant reserves will ensure security of supply for customers.