Sustainability matters, says Aggregate Industries:
#Sustainability matters. In 2019, we worked closely with @StaffsWildlife to transform #Tucklesholme quarry into a wetland habitat. Click here to discover more about the project https://t.co/MQdAvDmMJa @WildlifeTrusts #biodiversity pic.twitter.com/PIwdSM0HC8— Aggregate Industries (@AggregateUK) May 25, 2020
Of course, if sustainability really mattered to Aggregate Industries, its emissions would not be up again.
If sustainability mattered to Aggregate Industries, it would never have launched a planning application for Straitgate, to haul sand and gravel to a processing plant 23 miles away – a total of 2.5 million miles.
If sustainability mattered to Aggregate Industries, why has it been without a Head of Sustainability for more than a year now?
Last year, we posted Aggregate Industries is feeling the pain:
Aggregate Industries has reduced its workforce by 7% over the last two years, from 4,143 full time equivalent employees in 2016 to 3845 in 2018, its latest sustainability report shows.
Not only that. The company has gone from recruiting an average of 40 apprentices in each of the previous three years, to recruiting just 4 in 2018. It has gone from having 43% of the workforce in the over 50s age bracket in 2017, to just 21% in 2018. The company has even lost its Head of Sustainability, by the look of things.
Donna Hunt, Aggregate Industries' Head of Sustainability until April 2019, has now moved to Breedon:
She brings with her more 20 years’ knowledge and experience, having held several senior sustainability, environmental and stakeholder engagement positions across the energy, aerospace engineering and construction materials sectors.
Breedon has attracted a number of high profile personnel from Aggregate Industries in the past, including its current CEO. Aggregate Industries has suffered from a number of other key departures too. Last year we posted, Crikey, yet another change at the top of Aggregate Industries’ aggregates division:
Barely 12 months into his role, Pablo Libreros – appointed as "new managing director to lead aggregates business into the future" – is off already. Mr Libreros has moved to LafargeHolcim France. No news of any replacement yet.
Another case of musical chairs, or rats deserting a sinking ship??
It was only last year that we posted AI appoints new head of Aggregates division, again:
Readers may remember that in July [2017] AI appointed Mike Pearce as managing director of its Aggregates division, only to see him move on to Breedon two months later.
Aggregate Industries has still not appointed a new managing director to its Aggregates division. The role is currently being assumed by the company’s CEO, Guy Edwards.
What are we to make of that? Is aggregates, like sustainability, no longer a key area of focus for the company going forward? Or is the reason these positions have not been filled simply down to the state of the economy and/or pressure from LafargeHolcim's bean counters?
