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H & S AWARD FOR DONCASTER TEAM
Jan 18, 2012
On 6 December 2011, staff at Doncaster LDC were recognised for 5,000 days of work without a lost time incident. Until 31 October 2011, the Network rail site was managed by Lafarge Aggregates Limited and since then by Frimstone Limited.
Pictured above holding the award is Simon Wormsley, site manager, together with Andrew Cauldwell, Mick Paynter and Ed Heyes.
FRIMSTONE LTD AND STODY ESTATE LTD SIGN AGREEMENT TO CREATE TWO IRRIGATION RESERVOIRS
Nov 14, 2011
Frimstone Ltd (“Frimstone”) and Stody Estate Ltd (“Stody Estate”) are pleased to announce that an agreement for Frimstone to create two new irrigation reservoirs on the Estate has been reached. Planning permission for these reservoirs was received by Stody Estate in October 2010. The operations are expected to take 10 years and Frimstone will install a washing and screening plant on site with an expectation that it will be operational in early spring 2012.
Frimstone Managing Director, Gary Bell, commented ‘We’re really looking forward to working with Stody Estate on this exciting project. This strengthens our position in North Norfolk and Norwich and, following on from the award of the national contracts awarded to us by Network Rail, demonstrates our continued commitment to the Norfolk & East Anglian market.’
Adel MacNicol, owner of Stody Estate, welcomed the agreement with Frimstone and the imminent commencement of the reservoir creation for winter extracted water storage. Frimstone are an established and experienced Norfolk company who have stated their commitment to working with the local community and businesses.
Contacts for further information
Gary Bell
Managing Director
Frimstone Ltd
01366 388900
Ross Haddow
Farm & Estate Manager
Stody Estate Ltd
01263 860572
ANNOUNCEMENT
Nov 11, 2011
Frimstone Limited are please to announce the opening of a new national sales office based at Waterbeach near Cambridge which will handle enquiries and orders for materials from the seven Network Rail Local Distribution Centre’s that are now run by the company.
The office is open from 8 to 5 Monday to Friday and is staffed by Kelli Munn (kelli.munn@frimstone.co.uk) and Nicola Phelan (Nicola.phelan@frimstone.co.uk) who can also be contacted on the dedicated telephone number 0845 177 9900.
FRIMSTONE RACE DAY
Oct 18, 2011
Frimstone Limited sponsored the entire race day at Huntingdon Races on Tuesday 11 October 2011 as part of the roll out for running the Network Rail Local Distribution Centres due to take place later in the month.
Five of the races were named with Frimstone and the sixth with company subsidiary Midland Lime. As well as judging best turned out horse for each races, presentations were also made to the winning owner and trainer.
Pictured below are the winners together with company representatives making the presentations.
FRIMSTONE GOLF DAY
Oct 18, 2011
The annual Frimstone Limited Golf Day took place on Friday September 30 at Ryston Park near Downham Market.
Organised by Jim Norman, the former general manager of the company, over 50 customer and guests enjoyed excellent playing conditions over 27 holes of golf.
NEW SALES EXECUTIVES
Oct 18, 2011
Frimstone Limited are delighted to announce the recruitment of four new sales executives to the business.
In the National Sales for Secondary Granite sector, Gary Doyle joined the company on 1 September. Gary will cover the North West part of the country which includes sales arising from the LDC’s at Carlisle and Crewe.
Gemma Warrillow joined the business on 3 October having worked for Lafarge for a number of years and will look after sales from the Doncaster, Nottingham and Bescott LDC’s.
In the Anglia region, Richard Hobbs and Russell Woodward both joined the company on 3 October from Cemex. Richard and Russell will both look after sales from Whitemoor LDC and together with Bill Baxter will strengthen our sales presence across the East Anglian region. We wish all four sales executives every success in their new roles and creating new sales outlets for the expanding business..
NEW LORRIES
Oct 18, 2011
Frimstone is pleased to announce that the company has recently taken delivery of four new Volvo FMX 8 wheeler lorries with two of these based at the Waterbeach site and the other two at Crimplesham. The acquisition of the new vehicles now brings the commercial lorry fleet to 45 vehicles and allows the business to handle the increased work loads. The vehicles were supplied by Volvo Truck and Bus. Neil Crouchman, Volvo Transport Solutions Executive ( pictured right) seen here handing over the keys to Frimstone Managing Director Gary Bell said that he was delighted for Volvo to be able to support the growth of the company and looked forward to continuing the partnership in the future.
BRITISH AGGREGATE ASSOCIATION – NEW INDUSTRY REPRESENTATIVE
Oct 18, 2011
Frimstone Limited is delighted to announce that Geraint Morris, the company health and safety manager, has been asked by the HSE to take over the chair of the Quarries National Joint Advisory Committee Target Zero Occupational Heath Working Group. Geraint takes up this role on 1 November 2011 and we wish him every success in the Working Group.
FRIMSTONE CARLISLE TEAM
Oct 1, 2011
Following the announcement that Frimstone had been awarded the Network Rail contract, the company assumed management of the site at Kingsmoor in Carlisle on Thursday 1 September 2011.
Ian Garcia the site supervisor is pictured with his team
LOCAL COMPANY SECURE MAJOR CONTRACT
Sep 1, 2011
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.