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Irish Cement has taken delivery of its first load of Solid Recoverable Fuel (SRF) at Platin Works. SRF is a specially prepared clean dry blend of fragments of plastics, paper, cardboard and textiles that arise once recycling of waste materials has …

A revised National Annex (NA+2) to I.S. EN 206-1:2002 was published mid 2010. This revision was introduced to align recommendations of I.S. EN 206-1 NA with the National Annex of I.S. EN 1992-1-1, the Eurocode for Concrete, which was also …

Two trainee accountants from CRH China, Alice Sheng and Kevin Liu, spent six months working in Irish Cement’s Finance department , as part of a CRH training programme.

Engineers Ireland re-accredited Irish Cement as a ‘CPD Accredited Employer’ in 2010 in recognition of the good organisational practice in the professional development of engineers and technical staff in the company.

Platin Works sponsored ‘Manufacturering / Exporter of the Year Award’ at 2010 Drogheda Chambers Business Excellence Awards. This award was won by Killeen Steel Wool. Irish Cement also entered and won the category of ‘Best Green Business/Environmental Excellence Award’, which was …

Irish Cement Limerick Works collaborated with Ms. Elizabeth Hatz from Sweden, the curator of ‘Open / Invited ev+ a 2010 Matters’ visual art exhibition, to invite Mr. Staffan Nihlen to visit its Limestone quarry. Following some visits, Mr. Nihlen chose …

Platin Works joined with St. Oliver’s Community School as part of a new Business in the Community partnership. This is an itiative in to introduce 5th year students to the workplace in order to encourage them to remain in school and …

In May 2008 as part of Cembureau’s Plant Open Week Initiative Limerick Works hosted six tours from local schools.

In July 2007 CRH plc and the Irish Group Companies including Irish Cement joined forces with Simon Communities of Ireland to roll out an ambitious new charity venture.

To make way for the new Kiln 3 production line in Platin, Kiln 1 was finally shut down on October 9th 2008 after 36 years in production. Kiln 1 was commissioned in 1972 and was the first dry process kiln in Ireland.