About our Report
Tarmac, a CRH company, is the UK’s leading sustainable building products, construction services and solutions business. Our innovative products, services and solutions help to deliver the infrastructure needed to grow the economy today and create a more sustainable built environment to support the future prosperity of the UK.
This report looks at improving sustainability for our business, our customers and communities by continually improving environmental, social and economic performance throughout the whole life cycle of our products, services and solutions.
Sustainability in 2023
In 2023, CRH, our parent company, set an ambitious industry leading target to reduce absolute CO2 emissions across the business by 30% by 2030. This target, from a 2021 baseline, is supported by a series of Science Based Target initiative (SBTi) validated targets. Adopting this target commits Tarmac to one of the most ambitious reductions in emissions in the UK construction materials industry and builds on the progress we’ve made so far, in line with Act, our sustainability strategy, as we drive our transition to net zero.
This report has been prepared in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative’s Sustainability Reporting Standards (GRI Standards). View the GRI Index.
It focuses on the issues that we consider to be material to our business as identified in our sustainability strategy.
What’s in and what’s not
The data in this report covers the period January to December 2023, unless otherwise stated. It applies to the following companies which are wholly owned, or of which we have overall control:
Tarmac Cement and Lime Limited
Tarmac Aggregates Limited
Tarmac Trading Limited
Tarmac Building Products Limited
Tarmac Marine Limited
Tarmac Caledonian Limited
Buxton Lime Limited
Sapphire Energy Recovery Limited
National Road Planing
JB Riney
Alun Griffiths
Hopkins Concrete Limited
Wales and Border Counties Plant Hire Limited
Data for the following businesses in which Tarmac has a joint venture or partnership interest are not included in this report:
Island Barn Aggregates Limited LAL-GRS Limited GRS Rail Services Limited Isle of Wight Aggregates Limited North Tyne Roadstone Limited Mersey Sand Suppliers Limited Tarmac Farrans JV Limited Tendley Quarries Limited C. & H. Quick-Mix Limited
