11 July 2007
Major Investment at CEMEX UK's Leamouth Wharf Benefits Construction Customers and Saints Football Fans

Leading building materials solutions provider CEMEX UK has invested over £325,000 at the Leamouth Wharf site near Southampton to upgrade and install new equipment for the processing of sand and gravel, and the manufacturing of readymixed concrete and screed. This will ensure product quality and consistency for local builders and construction customers. Just as important for fans of the local Saints football club and the six wharf employees, who are also staunch fans, are the 110 car parking spaces available on site during football matches at St Mary's stadium.

The Leamouth site has also been rebranded to bring it into line with the corporate identity of the parent company, which consists of red and blue stripes with the blue CEMEX logotype on a white background.

At the wharf, over 30,000 tonnes of aggregates per month are off-loaded from CEMEX UK's fleet of marine dredgers. The materials are then washed, graded and crushed, before being sold to customers in the form of sand and gravel, or made into concrete or screed for the construction of homes, schools, offices, hospitals and roads. A majority of the materials from Leamouth are used in projects within a 10-mile radius of the site, for key local projects such as the Queen Alexander Hospital and the Dowds Farm housing development.

The national investment programme follows the re-shaping of CEMEX's UK operations since the company's take over of RMC Group in 2005, and is part of a wider aim to create a company focused on technical excellence, quality and service.

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CEMEX
CEMEX is a global building solutions company and leading supplier of cement, ready-mixed concrete and aggregates. In the UK, CEMEX also has a significant share of the asphalt, concrete block and mortar markets. The company has a national supply network in the UK with over 500 locations, to ensure that quality building materials is available to customers locally. For more information, see www.cemex.co.uk or www.cemex.com