News & Press Releases

Fortis and Raymond Brown Quarry Products receive 13th consecutive RoSPA Gold Awards (President’s Award)

Fortis and Raymond Brown Quarry Products have received their President’s RoSPA Award (13th consecutive Gold Awards) for working hard to ensure staff, subcontractors and suppliers get home safely to their families at the end of every working day. Organisations receiving a RoSPA Award are recognised as being world-leaders in health and safety practice. Every year, […]

New Plant for Raymond Brown Quarry Products

Raymond Brown Quarry Products has welcomed three new Komastu WA475-10 loading shovels to replace two Volvo L150H loading shovels at Binnegar Quarry and one at Brickworth Quarry. These new machines are supplied with Hydraulic Mechanical Transmission, providing 15% higher engine torque with lower emissions and fuel consumption. A new PC290LC-11 slew has also replaced the […]

Raymond Brown Group Stop for Safety Event

All Raymond Brown and Fortis sites took part in a group-wide “Stop for Safety” event for two hours on Monday 4th October. The event was an opportunity to get all our employees thinking and talking to each other about the hazards and risks we face daily, control measures we have in place and any improvements […]

Students from University College London visit the A303 IBA Processing Facility

We were delighted to welcome two students and their professor from University College London to our Fortis A303 IBA Processing Facility a few weeks ago. Prof Julia Stegemann is a Professor of Enironmental Engineering and her students are working on an MSc topic – Stimulating Reuse of IBA as a Concrete Aggregate and a PhD topic […]

Roke Manor Quarry Mega Cell

The site team have completed the “Roke Mega Cell” in phase 5, the largest cell construction to date at Roke Manor Quarry at approximately 200km³, creating a void capacity of around 360,000 tonnes.

Raymond Brown achieves FORS Bronze Reaccreditation

We are pleased to announce that the Raymond Brown Fleet has successfully been reaccredited with the Fleet Operator Recognition Scheme (FORS) Bronze standard as a result of our continued commitment to improving the safety and efficiency of our fleet and drivers. FORS is a voluntary nationally recognised accreditation scheme for fleet operators which aims to […]