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News Release from: Buxton Cement | Subject: Cleaning up with Buxton Cement
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 04 January 2006
Cleaning up with Buxton Cement
It's a green light for two housing developments in the Midlands, thanks to a crucial clean-up involving Buxton Cement.
Buxton Cement has been called in to rehabilitate brownfield sites in Warwickshire and Nottinghamshire Buxton Cement has a proven track record in ground works: recently it has been helping to underpin the entire town centre of Northwich
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 4 Jan 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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The client this time is West Midlands-based Envirotreat, a specialist in contaminated land and waste remediation.
It's impressed by what Buxton Cement can deliver.
"Whether the cement is bulk or bagged, we're looking for competitively priced, quality materials which we constantly evaluate in trials," says Robert Moreu, Envirotreat's Technical Sales Manager.
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"Buxton Cement has become an established supplier and we work closely as a team".
The first site is in Nuneaton, where Taylor Woodrow is building 73 housing plots and three apartment blocks.
The second is a residential development by Ben Bailey Homes in Mansfield.
Both brownfield sites needed remediation of contaminated soils and groundwater before the foundations could be laid.
The sites were previously occupied by engineering works which had left behind a legacy of oil spillages and hot spots of metal contamination.
Envirotreat's sustainable technology is well-suited to such a complex job.
It has developed a unique remediation treatment based on specially-modified clays.
This is a cost-effective and environmentally friendly alternative to 'dig and dump' ground rehabilitation.
Alongside this technique, the Nuneaton site required around 2,500m3 of cement to stabilise the ground.
Buxton Cement provided a similar amount to the Mansfield development.
The company is supplying the cement from its new state-of-the-art plant in Buxton, Derbyshire.
Opened last year, the new Tunstead plant lifts Buxton cement's capacity to 800,000 tonnes a year, from 300,000.
"The investment we've made in expanding operations is clearly paying off," says Alistair Whitaker, Buxton Cement's Sales Director.
"And we're proving ourselves not only with the quality of our products but with our service too".
Envirotreat is also benefiting from Buxton Cement's upgraded distribution structure.
The company's railhead at Tunstead has been expanded and includes the most modern facilities available for bulk cement handling and distribution.
It has opened new depots in Walsall, Leeds and London, and bought new cement wagons and locomotives.
Buxton Cement can tailor its deliveries to meet the needs of bulk customers.
"We're looking for strong logistical support, especially reliable delivery," says Envirotreat's Moreu.
"Our sites can move quickly and we can call off a lot of materials at short notice".
"Buxton meets these challenges and deliver the complete package.".
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