Environmental
Our factory operations are licensed and inspected regularly by the Environmental Protection Agency. We comply with regulations covering emissions to air from our kilns, site cleanliness, avoidance of pollution of water courses and handling of waste.
Our quarries have specific regulations requiring long term restoration and limiting noise nuisance when operating quarry plant.
We believe that minimising waste is both best practice for the environment and good commercial sense in reducing costs.
We recycle most process wastes and waste fired product can be used as a primary aggregate.
Where possible we use waste streams from other industries to reduce the need for extraction of new minerals. Our flue liners use over 30% recycled content and some of our bricks use up to 15% waste materials.
We strive to reduce energy usage and our kilns would be in the top 10% in terms of energy efficiency in this sector.
We use recycled wooden pallets where possible.
We are actively involved in product improvement to meet improved building codes aimed at better energy efficiency in dwellings.