Aggregate Industries, the Swiss owners of one of Northern Ireland’s biggest cement operations, has sold the business to Cookstown Cement for an undisclosed sum.
The sale includes all the businesses of Lafarge Cement Ireland, including a cement plant with production capacity in excess of 450,000 tonnes a year in Cookstown, a limestone quarry also in Cookstown, a shale quarry in Dungannon and an import export facility in Belfast Harbour.
The new owner’s said they plan to invest £12 million to upgrade the facilities across the company to improve efficiency and environmental credentials.
