In October 2023 we shared a fantastic supply story where Cemex completed a major project for our customer, Active Tunnelling. We supplied 1,550m3 of Readymix Concrete for a major sewer project in Gloucestershire.

The project was a storm overflow tank – the largest of its kind in the UK and can hold 7,400m3 of water – the equivalent of three Olympic sized swimming pools. It has recently been featured on the BBC where Steph Cawley, Director of Operations at Severn Trent, explained why the project is so important to the local area.

You can read the interesting BBC article HERE and watch the BBC News report HERE.

Five Readymix plants supplied the project, including plants further away than the ones normally supplying this site. The Concrete from further afield incorporated a set retarder (Cemex CR800) to cater for the longer travelling times. Across two days of continuous pouring, all parties involved worked together as ‘One Cemex’ to overcome some logistic challenges linked to road traffic accidents on the nearby motorway and in front of one of the plants. The supply was promptly rescheduled in order to meet the customer’s deadlines, and in the end the team successfully managed to complete the full supply three hours ahead of schedule.