NEWS EXTRA
BREEDON OPENS NEW CONCRETE ROOF TILE PLANT
A £4.5m investment has resulted in a new concrete roof tile plant at the Lisburn factory of Breedon Group. Fiona Russell Horne went for a poke around.
IN A MOVE designed to meet increased market demand, the Breedon Group has opened a new concrete roof tile plant in Lisburn, the result of a £5m investment. Currently in the commissioning stage, it’s a 4,500sq m facility which doubles Breedon’s concrete roof tile capacity, to 22 million tiles a year.
Managing director Mark Morris explains the rationale behind the investment. “Back in 1995, the Lagan family, a successful Irish company who had developed from contracting into quarrying building materials, had a quarry coming to the end of its life. “So, they built a concrete tile plant on the site, because, at the time, there weren’t that many concrete tile products on
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the island of Ireland, let alone Northern Ireland.”
The original plant opened in 1995, with a plan to manufacture 4.5m tiles a year.
“Well, within nine months they were making 12m tiles a year out of a plant designed to make 4.5m, such was the demand, thanks, in part, to the Celtic Boom,” Morris says.
“They did that by running the plant 24/7, but eventually, after boom comes bust by 2006 that had happened and then came the financial crash.”
At the time, Morris was on the board at brick maker Wienerberger, but knew the Lagan team who approached him to set up a GB business, and Morris was soon selling bagged
www.buildersmerchantsjournal.net March 2024
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