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CHANGING LANDSCAPES REPORT to SOCIETY 2005 Tarmac Artwork2.Qxd 24/2/06 3:28 Pm Page 2 Tarmac artwork2.qxd 24/2/06 3:28 pm Page 1 ® CHANGING LANDSCAPES REPORT TO SOCIETY 2005 Tarmac artwork2.qxd 24/2/06 3:28 pm Page 2 BIODIVERSITY HEALTH & SAFETY WATER USE COMMUNITY & EDUCATION CASE REPORT 1 04 - 05 CASE REPORT 2 06 - 07 CASE REPORT 3 08 - 09 CASE REPORT 4 10 - 11 A look at some of the In 2005 Tarmac invested Our new ‘reservoir Tarmac’s Millennium many ways in which we heavily in new equipment pavement’ technology – Eco-Centre near Wrexham are helping to encourage and devised innovative ways Tarmac Aquifa™ – is set to is helping to promote biodiversity and restore of working to ensure that reduce the risk and costs of sustainable living and natural habitats across hand arm vibration doesn’t flash flooding through its raise awareness of the UK. compromise the health of environmentally friendly environmental issues across our workforce. drainage system. the wider community. Tarmac artwork2.qxd 24/2/06 3:28 pm Page 3 CONTENTS WELCOME TO TARMAC’S REPORT TO SOCIETY FOR 2005. AS A BUSINESS, WE INTRODUCTION 01 PLAY AN ESSENTIAL ROLE IN PROVIDING ABOUT TARMAC 02 - 03 SOCIETY WITH THE RAW CONSTRUCTION CASE REPORT 1 04 - 05 MATERIALS WHICH MAKE UP THE FABRIC CASE REPORT 2 06 - 07 OF OUR DAILY LIVES. CASE REPORT 3 08 - 09 CASE REPORT 4 10 - 11 As well as our commercial considerations, we are guided by a strong sense of responsibility for the health and safety of our SAFETY 12 - 14 employees, for the environment and for the communities we HEALTH 15 - 16 work in and society as a whole. We’re also committed to ENVIRONMENT 17 - 20 communicating openly and honestly on our performance in SOCIETY 21 - 23 these different areas and to sharing our vision of where we are heading. We have produced this report to give our customers, regulators, employees and neighbours, as well as local A MESSAGE FROM OUR CEO 24 councillors, planners and MPs, an accurate understanding of the efforts we are making to manage our business responsibly. In this, our 11th report of its kind, we’ve begun with four in-depth case studies which give an insight into some of our recent innovations and policies at work. Towards the back of the report, you’ll find detailed data and analysis of our performance in the different sectors before a final word from our CEO. We hope you’ll find it informative, engaging and even inspiring. Although we’ve achieved much already, we’re constantly looking at how we can continue to improve, because in Tarmac, we believe the foundations of the future are laid today. INTRODUCTION 01 Tarmac artwork2.qxd 24/2/06 3:28 pm Page 4 TARMAC IS A LEADING PROVIDER Our products are in use almost everywhere WHAT WE DO OF MATERIALS, PRODUCTS you look: in roads, buildings and infrastructure Our business has evolved dramatically over more projects of course, but also in paper, glass, than a century. From producing the road-surfacing AND SERVICES USED BY THE cosmetics and many more sectors besides. material from which our name is derived, we now CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY TO As well as providing essential materials for all serve a variety of industry sectors that impact on CREATE AND SUSTAIN THE types of industry, we’re also a major supplier virtually every aspect of daily life. An overview of SOCIETY WE LIVE IN. of contract construction services for both the our products, services and their related uses is public and private sectors. provided on the opposite page. WHO WE ARE WHAT WE BELIEVE We have a rich history and an exciting future. As a business, we are focused on providing ever- More than 100 years ago, we invented the higher standards of service and value to our modern road surface ‘tarmacadam’. Over the customers wherever we operate. years, we have grown and diversified significantly; in 2000, we became a part of Anglo American plc At the same time, we are committed to investing – one of the world’s largest mining and natural in our employees – helping them to realise their resources companies. potential while providing a safe and healthy environment in which they can work. Working within Anglo American’s Industrial Minerals division, we employ more than 12,000 We look to grow our business in a sustainable and people and achieved a turnover of £1.4 billion responsible manner, providing our shareholders with in 2004. We are the leading supplier of building a good return on their investment. We also believe materials in the UK, and have also established we have a responsibility to play a positive role in the significant international operations in continental communities in which we work and to be a leader Europe, the Middle East and Asia. in environmental management. The countries in which Tarmac operated in 2005 This report looks at our performance in safety, are: UK, Eire, France, Belgium, Germany, Spain, health, environment and social matters across Poland, Czech Republic, United Arab Emirates, 2005, and the plans that are in place to improve Oman, India, China and Hong Kong. our performance in all these areas. ABOUT TARMAC 02 ABOUT TARMAC Tarmac artwork2.qxd 24/2/06 3:28 pm Page 5 PRODUCT OR SERVICE USED FOR AGGREGATES: • ROAD CONSTRUCTION • BUILDING AND INFRASTRUCTURE FOUNDATIONS CRUSHED ROCK, SAND AND GRAVEL • PRODUCTION OF CONCRETE AND ASPHALT • MOTORWAY CONSTRUCTION • AIRPORT RUNWAYS ASPHALT • SPORTING ARENAS • CAR PARKS AND DRIVEWAYS KEY FACTS READY-MIXED CONCRETE • CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS WE INVESTED £110 MILLION • CONCRETE BLOCKS FOR WALLING, STRUCTURAL IN A NEW CEMENT PLANT AT FLOORING AND DECORATIVE PAVING CONCRETE PRODUCTS BUXTON, UK • SPECIALIST PRE-CAST PRODUCTS FOR TUNNEL, RAIL AND CIVIL ENGINEERING PRODUCTS WE HAVE PLANTED MORE • SMALL-SCALE BRICK-LAYING PROJECTS THAN 110,000 TREES IN MORTAR AND SCREEDS • MAJOR HOUSE-BUILDING SCHEMES THE LAST FIVE YEARS • PRODUCTION OF CONCRETE AND CONCRETE CEMENT IN 2005 WE PRODUCED PRODUCTS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY 76.8 MILLION TONNES • LAND REMEDIATION OF AGGREGATES • WATER TREATMENT PROJECTS LIME • PRODUCTION OF FIBREGLASS, TOOTHPASTE, SUGAR, GLASS, LEATHER, IRON AND STEEL WE OPERATE 37 RECYCLING SITES WORLDWIDE • ROADS • FOOTPATHS AND CYCLEWAYS • INDUSTRIAL OR BUSINESS PARKS WE HAVE OVER 12,000 CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTING SERVICES • MULTI-STOREY CAR PARKS AND EMPLOYEES WORLDWIDE COMMERCIAL DRIVEWAYS • FENCING, SIGNING, LIGHTING AND TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT • RECYCLING WASTE MATERIALS FROM THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY AND ALSO THE IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY RECYCLING SERVICES • PRODUCING A RANGE OF RECYCLED AGGREGATES AND BLENDED MATERIALS FOR REUSE ABOUT TARMAC 03 Tarmac artwork2.qxd 24/2/06 3:28 pm Page 6 THE VERY NATURE OF OUR BUSINESS HAS THE POTENTIAL TO DAMAGE OR “There is a distinction between conservation and restoration. We might have to take out a hedgerow DESTROY A RANGE OF PLANT AND ANIMAL LIFE IN A HABITAT, SO ACROSS OUR but if, at the same time, we create ponds and UK SITES, WE ARE WORKING HARD TO ENCOURAGE BIODIVERSITY – FROM banks for sand martins, we’re still encouraging KESTRELS NESTING IN A HOPPER IN BOLTON TO CREATING A WILDFLOWER BANK an overall gain.” AT WOLVERHAMPTON. AND ALTHOUGH COMMITMENT TO ENVIRONMENTAL ANDY CRAWSHAW Group Sustainable Development Manager, Tarmac PERFORMANCE IS COMPANY POLICY, COLLEAGUES HAVE REQUIRED LITTLE ENCOURAGEMENT TO GET INVOLVED. “We have to do our research and a lot of forward planning to make sure our work doesn’t disrupt nesting birds. It’s not just legislation – there’s a genuine interest among quarry people to encourage wildlife. It’s a more pleasing and rewarding way of working.” GEORGE ELLIOTT Restoration Manager – Midlands and North West, Tarmac CASE REPORT 1: BALANCING BUSINESS WITH BIODIVERSITY Tarmac artwork2.qxd 24/2/06 3:28 pm Page 7 AN ONGOING COMMITMENT BACKING THE BITTERN AT LANGFORD QUARRY ACTION PLANS We address environmental issues throughout The bittern is a medium-sized heron, standing at At a number of our quarries, including Mancetter in the extraction process, from planning through just over two feet tall. In 1997, just 15 bitterns Warwickshire, areas have been designated as Sites extraction to handover after restoration is existed in the UK. By 2004, numbers had increased of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) in recognition of completed. An Environmental Impact Assessment fivefold, thanks to the work of organisations such their rich biodiversity. Mancetter is also one of the is carried out at the planning stage, to evaluate the as the RSPB and English Nature. But we have also sites with a Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP) already in positive and negative impacts of our developments. had a role to play. At our busy Langford sand and place. This provides a framework within which we We have an ongoing commitment to increase gravel quarry in Nottinghamshire, reed beds are have developed targets and a strategy for biodiversity through our operations and build being restored, and the bittern is slowly returning protecting and maintaining the environment. this into our planning. to the area. Working with the RSPB, we restore and prepare previously excavated land ready for There’s no legal obligation for BAPs at the moment It is inevitable that our business, and quarrying in the planting of reeds. The RSPB then manages but, as a responsible company, we are committed particular, causes environmental change; the and monitors the land and the wildlife it attracts. to putting BAPs in place at over 200 of our active challenge is to reduce its impact on wildlife, or even mineral operations worldwide by 2008. We turn it into an opportunity to restore vanishing completed 11 in 2005 and there are plans to habitats. It isn’t a mathematical evaluation; wildlife complete another 70 in 2006. The Estates and can’t be measured in the same commercial terms Sustainable Development departments work with as aggregates.
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