News
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Northstone Win Top National Award for Health & Safety
Northstone was successful at the recent national Mineral Product Association (MPA) Health & Safety Best Practice Awards in the Contractors Safety section for the development and use of their "Guardian Goal Post" system » more
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Northstone Supply Concrete to the World's Oldest Distillery
The Northstone Concrete Division have recently completed the supply of high strength concrete to the new Warehouses at the Bushmills Distillery in County Antrim, often described as the “Oldest Distillery in the World”. » more
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Far-flung Visitors Impressed With Faults And Fossils
Yesterday, geologists from the South of England finished their week-long geological tour of the Province and Donegal on a high note with a visit to our Carmean Limeworks. » more
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Utility Chamber Division Becomes CUBIS
CUBIS Industries is the new name for Northstone’s Utility Chamber Division. One of the first tasks for Sales and Marketing Director, Andrew Wright, was to decide on a new brand and image for the Division. Having opened the floor to suggestions from the staff at the three sites, the name CUBIS, which is derived from the Latin word for chamber, was decided on. » more
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Scalloped Oaks And Burnished Brasses – Its Moth Trapping at Long Mountain
Our Quarry & Asphalt Division's Long Mountain Quarry hosted a moth trapping and identification training session on Wednesday 29th July. » more
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North Down Open Day Draws Many Visitors
As part of the European Minerals Week, our North Down Quarry Depot hosted an open day on Saturday 9th May. The open day was advertised in the local press. Despite rain on the day, ninety-four out of ninety-six pre-booked visitors came. » more
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Concrete Division Launch Specialist Sand Leaflet
The Northstone Concrete Division have launched a promotional leaflet to provide customers with some further information on the Company’s extensive range of high quality Specialist Sands. » more
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Roofing Services Launch New Commercial Brochure
Northstone concrete division have launched the new Architect Edition of their Roof-Tiling brochure, which illustrates the division full roofing services package, showcasing the major commercial roofing projects successfully completed by Northstone over the last few years. » more
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Students suss out Croaghan
Our Croaghan Quarry hosted an afternoon visit by Dr Declan Lawlor and ten students from the North West Regional College on Wednesday 26th November. Dr Lawlor (Environment Officer, Loughs Agency), lectures on the part-time course in Countryside & Fisheries Management at the Derry Campus. The students were looking to gain a working knowledge of the industry, the local geology and management of the environment. » more
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Quarry & Asphalt Division win environmental award
Our Quarry & Asphalt Division recently won the Energy Efficiency Award category of the Sustainable Ireland Energy, Environmental & Waste Management Awards 2008. » more
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Illustrious Belfast Naturalists' Field Club visits Carmean
On Saturday 9th August, our Quarry & Asphalt Division facilitated a visit of the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club to our Carmean quarry. Founded nearly 150 years ago, the club caters for those interested in archaeology, botany and geology. » more
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First Prismo Colourbright In Ireland
On the 13th and 14th May, our Special Products Team installed the very first Prismo Colourbright™ retro-reflecting material in Ireland on the A24 Belfast to Newcastle Road (around four miles south of Ballynahinch). » more
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Fossil hunters find Quarry
As part of our programme of facilitating educational visits, our Carmean Limeworks hosted a geology field trip from Methodist College Belfast at the end of February. The visitors were guided round the quarry by Angus Kennedy assisted by Michael Black. » more
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Carson Industries Joins Northstone Family
The Carson Industries production facility in Roscommon became the latest addition to the growing Northstone family when CRH plc acquired its parent company earlier this year. » more
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New Tile Plant Commissioning Underway at Toome
The newest, and certainly one of the most impressive production facilities in Northstone can now be found at Creagh Road in Toome. In the past number of weeks the first roof tiles have been produced by what is one of the most sophisicated tile production plants in Europe » more
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New Northstone Acquisition
In September 2007 Northstone (NI) Limited acquired the sand, gravel and block business of T. O’Connell and Sons. » more
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Quarry Product Sector's Health and Safety Awareness day
In collaboration with the Health & Safety Executive Northern Ireland (HSENI) and the Quarry Products Association Northern Ireland (QPANI), Northstone’s Quarry & Asphalt Division’s recently hosted a Health and Safety Awareness Day for the Quarry Products Sector at their head office in Croaghan. » more
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Another First for Northstone's Quarry & Asphalt Division
Our Quarry and Asphalt Division are the first to use the new Salmor 'Guardian' goalposts to warn of the presence of overhead power lines and to maintain a safe stand-off distance and prevent line strikes. From an initial idea developed and trialled in-house by the Division, production and marketing of the new goalpost system has been passed to Salmor Industries Limited. » more
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Quarry & Asphalt Division achieves UKAS registration for its Croaghan Laboratory
After a pre-assessment visit in early October, and an intensive two-day scrutiny by two auditors at the end of November last year, our Croaghan quality control test laboratory successfully achieved recommendation for accreditation to ISO IEC 17025 – the standard for the performance of testing and calibration standards. » more
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Falcon Fanatics Flock to Ballymena
In May, Quarry & Asphalt Division hosted a Quarry Visitors’ Day at Ballymena to coincide with IMA European Minerals Day and the launch of the BBC programme Return Of The Raptors, which focuses on Northern Ireland’s peregrine falcon population and includes the role of quarrying in boosting their numbers. » more
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Belfast Geologists' Society's grand day out
On Saturday 26th May, our Quarry & Asphalt Division hosted a visit by the Belfast Geologists' Society to our Croaghan and Carmean quarries. » more
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Quarry & Asphalt Division makes FEMAS accreditation easier to swallow
Quarry & Asphalt Division has recently begun a programme to attract visitors to its locations. However, some of the division’s most loyal ones are now causing a bit of a stir. » more
