Entries by Kerry Smith

Unveiling of the Binnegar Operational Base (OB) Memorial Benches

A ribbon cutting ceremony took place on Monday 14 November 2022 by Councillor Barry Quinn, to officially unveil the Binnegar Operational Base (OB) Memorial Benches in Binnegar Lane, Wareham. In 2017, the remains of an OB for one of these Auxiliary Units was discovered during the quarry expansion. During excavation by Raymond Brown Quarry Products, […]

Fortis host Brett Aggregates CPD Event at A303 IBA Processing Facility

Fortis IBA Ltd were delighted to have hosted Brett Aggregates for a CPD Event last week at our A303 IBA Processing Facility, the event comprised of an informative presentation and site tour by the Fortis Hydrogeological Team and Site Team. Brett Aggregates are the South East Distribution partners for Fortistone IBA Aggregate. Fortis offer CPD […]

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 […]

Raymond Brown is awarded RoSPA Gold President’s (12 consecutive Golds) Award for health and safety achievements

Raymond Brown is celebrating after landing an internationally-recognised award for demonstrating high health and safety standards. Raymond Brown was awarded a RoSPA Gold President’s (12 consecutive Golds) Health and Safety Award for working hard to ensure staff, customers, clients and contractors get home safely to their families at the end of every working day. Organisations […]

Four Employees win Core Value Awards after being nominated by Colleagues

In the recent Raymond Brown Group of companies staff satisfaction surveys, we gave all employees the opportunity to nominate colleagues who they felt stood out over the past year by displaying our three Core Values.  A number of nominations were received from across the group, however, there were four individuals whose names stood out. We […]