Company structure
Heidelberg Materials UK (formerly Hanson UK) is split into five business lines – aggregates, concrete, asphalt and contracting, cement and recycling – which together operate over 280 manufacturing and distribution sites.
Heidelberg Materials Aggregates
Heidelberg Materials Aggregates produces crushed rock, sand and gravel from a network of over 80 quarries, depots and wharves. The division includes Heidelberg Materials Aggregates Marine, Europe's largest producer of marine-dredged sand and gravel which operates seven trailing suction hopper dredgers delivering to wharves in the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium and France.
Heidelberg Materials Cement
Heidelberg Materials Cement is a leading manufacturer of Portland cement, both in bulk and in bags, and produces Regen (ground granulated blast furnace slag) – a cement replacement in ready-mixed and precast concrete. The division includes our packed products business which produces a range of bagged cement, cementitious and aggregate products. Read more about our cement products.
Heidelberg Materials Concrete
Heidelberg Materials Concrete is the UK’s largest supplier of ready-mixed concrete from a network of over 170 static and site-based mobile production plants.
Heidelberg Materials Asphalt and Contracting
Hanson Asphalt and Contracting brings together management of our asphalt production sites and a national road surfacing and infrastructure contracting business.
Supply Chain
Our supply chain function oversees the movement of around a million tonnes of materials every week by road, rail and sea.
Our head office is at Maidenhead and houses corporate finance, insurance, legal, marketing, sustainability, procurement and the senior management team. We also have a shared service centre at Chipping Sodbury near Bristol, which employs over 150 people. This includes supplier and customer accounts, credit control, payroll, management accounts, IT and HR services.
Our national customer service centre is in Syston near Leicestershire and manages orders, sales and distribution for all our products.