Family owned East Anglian based aggregates company, Frimstone Limited, have won a long term contract from Network Rail that will ensure the future growth of the company and lead to increased employment opportunities within the business by the end of this year.
Following on from the construction of new offices at Crimplesham in February 2010, the company is delighted to announce the award of a long term contract from Network Rail to manage seven Local Distribution Centres (LDC’s). The LDC’s are strategically located across the country to ensure that supply of materials to track maintenance contracts is carried out efficiently. Frimstone are contracted to manage the clean ballast stockpiles and to re-process and sell the spent ballast when it comes back into the LDC’s. Frimstone have run the Whitemoor LDC at March in Cambridgeshire for the past 7 years and in that time have pioneered the use of the re-processed track ballast in coated roadstone, surface dressing and ready mixed concrete.
The sites awarded to Frimstone are:
Carlisle
Doncaster
Toton (Nottingham)
Crewe
Bescot (Walsall)
Whitemoor (Cambridgeshire)
Eastleigh (Hampshire)
The site at Whitemoor continues to be operated by Frimstone Limited whilst the site at Carlisle will be operational as of 1 September 2011 and the remaining five sites will become operational on 1 November 2011.
The company currently employs 115 staff and this is now expected to increase to 150 by the end of this year.
Frimstone Managing Director, Gary Bell commented ‘The award of these contracts to Frimstone demonstrates that all the work in gaining approval to use secondary granite in coated roadstone, surface dressing and ready mixed concrete has been recognised as the right thing to do. The use of secondary granite in these products contributes towards the UK achieving its recycling and carbon reduction targets and is a real opportunity for secondary granite to replace primary aggregates in higher quality materials. Frimstone looks forward to playing a major part in supplying high quality recycled materials into infra structure projects across the whole of the UK’.
The Frimstone Limited head office is situated at Crimplesham near Downham Market in Norfolk The Company was established in 1975. In January 1995 Frimstone was awarded a Royal Warrant for the supply of crushed and graded aggregates to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk. Frimstone is now the largest independent aggregates business in East Anglia supplying sand, gravel and recyclable building materials to the local and regional building industry.
| Site | Address | Postcode | Telephone |
| Bescot | Bescot LDC, Bescot Rail Depot, Sandy Lane, Wednesbury, West Midlands | WS10 0LH | 01223 205024 |
| Carlisle | Kingmoor LDC, Cargo Road, Kingmoor Yard, Carlisle, Cumbria | CA6 4BA | |
| Crewe | Crewe LDC, Basford Hall Sidings, Gresty Road, Crewe, Cheshire | CW2 5AA | 01223 205022 |
| Doncaster | Doncaster LDC, Ten Pounds Walk, Decoy South, Doncaster, S. Yorks | DN4 5HX | 01223 205023 |
| Eastleigh | Eastleigh LDC, Tower Lane(off Chickenhall Lane), Eastleigh, Hants | SO50 6NZ | 01223 205025 |
| Toton | Toton LDC, Toton Sidings, Long Eaton, Notts | NG10 5AP | 01223 205021 |
| Whitemoor | Hundred Road(off Norwood Road), March, Cambs | PE15 8QW | 01354 661297 |