Heidelberg Materials UK Adds New Washing Plant with Annual Capacity of 450,000 Tonnes of Construction Waste

en.Wedoany.com Reported - On October 15, the UK subsidiary of German building materials group Heidelberg Materials announced that it had completed the expansion of its Agecroft construction waste recycling site in Swinton, Manchester, UK, adding a washing plant with an annual processing capacity of up to 450,000 tonnes and a dedicated railway siding. The new washing plant mainly processes excavated waste soil from construction, demolition and industrial site excavation to produce recycled construction aggregates. The company ranks the facility as the largest washing plant currently in the UK.

The new washing facility can separate, wash and process materials generated from building demolition, earthworks excavation and industrial site clearance, recovering recycled aggregates that meet the requirements for construction engineering use. The equipment is equipped with drainage and water recovery systems that can collect and recycle nearly 100% of process water. The Agecroft site supplies both primary and recycled aggregates to meet the material needs of different local construction projects.

Heidelberg Materials previously installed a washing system of the same type at the B&A Group site in Bristol, UK, in 2025, and Agecroft is the second such facility invested in and built by the company. This expansion also adds rail unloading capacity, with the new dedicated siding receiving primary aggregates from the Horton Quarry in the Yorkshire Dales National Park to supply the Manchester construction materials market. The site has established dedicated material management procedures to prevent aggregates from different sources from being mixed during transport, storage and processing.

The dedicated railway siding and the waste washing facility respectively handle primary aggregate transport and recycled aggregate processing. Heidelberg Materials plans to use rail transport to reduce the number of road freight vehicles from Horton Quarry to the Manchester market, and to use the new recycling equipment to process excavated materials generated by local construction and infrastructure works.