Technical Expertise

Finding the best solutions for our customers and bringing innovative and unique products to the market doesn’t happen by accident.  With world-class facilities and the best technical minds in the country we have built an enviable reputation for technical excellence and service across all our product ranges.  In conjunction with architects, engineers and specifiers we have designed special mixes to overcome challenges that help a vision become a reality.  We’ve developed new products that inspire great ideas to take shape. 

Our Facilities

Our Technical division operates a number of laboratories where we test the quality of our own constituent materials and manufactured products.  Our Materials Testing and Quality Control Laboratories were granted accreditation to the international quality management standard IS EN ISO/IEC 17025:2005 by the Irish National Accreditation Board (INAB) in September 2009.

This covers the defined range of testing at the Group’s five separate laboratories at our various operations sites in Ireland which gives us the largest Multi-site accreditation in Ireland.

At our Head Office in Dunboyne, Co. Meath, we test all of our aggregates, concrete cubes, mortars and concrete blocks. We also have a dedicated laboratory exclusively for testing our paving and walling products and also to facilitate our ongoing R&D work to bring new and innovative products to the marketplace.

Our laboratories in Gallstown, Tullamore and Ballinascorney test bituminous materials and associated aggregates for our Road Surfacing & Contracting division.

Our laboratory team is highly experienced in the area of Materials Technology and come from civil engineering and chemistry backgrounds amongst others.  This provides us with the advantage of having a range of skills dealing with all of our quality and technical work.

We have and continue to invest heavily in our laboratories.  Because of our investment policy we have the most advanced testing machinery and facilities in the country today.  This includes a Gradex 3000 Computerised sieve analysis machine and a bespoke Laboratory Information Management Software system for total and complete automated product and test data monitoring.

Certification & Accreditation

  • ISO9001:2008 for our Pre-Mixed Dry Products
  • IS EN 206 for Concrete Producers Conformity Certification
  • IS EN 13108 Part 21 : 2006 as amended 2008
  • IS EN ISO/IEC 17025:2005 by the Irish National Accreditation Board (INAB) 

Copies of our certificates and accreditations are available in our Download section.

 

 

 

 

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