Armstrongs Group

Waddington Fell is our biggest quarry at 66 Acres.
The quarry offers a range of sandstones, variable in strength and colour and has been worked in the traditional method of crushing and screening following blasting to produce aggregate materials.
The stone from Waddington fell also forms excellent cut products such as fireplaces, lintels, even complete houses.

They say a picture can say a thousand words and that is certainly the case with this one!
Here you can see a large portion of our aggregates production line in one image.
You have our Dumper truck offloading some of the larger stone from a recent blast to a pile. You can see two of our excavators working, one picking and breaking the larger stone into smaller chunks, The other loading the crusher.
... Finally you can see the crushed aggregate being made, ready to go through the washer to be separated by its size.
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Our quarry at Shap covers 53 Acres.
That's enough to fit the white house and its grounds in almost 3 times!

Our Hitachi ZX690 has been featured on the Hitachi Construction social media accounts today! Who saw it?

We love this picture of Transport manager Sam Armstrong on site at Montcliffe Quarry!
Montcliffe’s gritstone is worked using the traditional method of crushing and screening following blasting. This long-used technique helps Armstrongs’ professionals to produce aggregate materials of exceptional quality.

We have a whole range of recruitment opportunities on our website!
Class 1 and 2 drivers, Groundsworkers and more!
Take a look today and see how you can lay your own foundation!
... www.armstrongsgroup.com/careers/
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Our Blog covers all aspects of our business. Provides tips and information about our stone and much more. If you're having a lazy weekend and fancy some light reading, give this a go to find out all about Armstrongs!

This week our blog has been written by our Bolton Sixth Form College work experience student Thomas!
He spent a day at Montcliffe Quarry with Sam Armstrong and this week our blog focuses on The Family behind Armstrongs Group!

Here at Armstrongs we are putting a heavy focus on getting involved in our local communities.
This month we are gathering donations for food banks, creating a reverse advent calendar for those in need, taking part in Movember fund raising activities, paying our respects in remembrance, we have work experience students from Bolton Sixth Form College and The University of Bolton and much more!

It's fascinating to see the transformation our stone goes through to reach its final desired state.
Here you can see our stone being cut into brick sized pieces ready to be hand finished by our stone masons.

Our Pilkington Quarry covers 53 Acres near the town of Horwich.
That's enough to fit in a staggering 2741 Statues of Liberty, 4.5 Great Pyramids of Giza and Buckingham Palace (and it's surrounding gardens!) 1.5 times!

We want you guys to comment down below, which machine out of these three do you think looks best? Is it A, B or C?

Did you know Armstrongs is a family run business?
Our CEO David, Our Director Emma and their daughter, and our Transport manager, Sam all have prominent roles in our business. As well as other members of the family also working at all levels through the business.
This is why we're so passionate about our business and what we do.

One of the things we enjoy at Armstrongs, is finding some of the amazing fossils which are hidden inside the huge mounds of stone which we transport. Can you spot any fossils?

This week our blog is about some of our staff who are based at our head office!
This is just an introduction so expect to see more of them in the near future!

We are Armstrongs Group, Operating from 5 quarries across the North West and Cumbria, Armstrongs are a reliable supplier of all forms of stone material from rock armor or cut dimension stone down to aggregate, sand or dust.
Want to get to know our business and what we do? This short video goes a long way to introducing ourselves!

Whoop! Whoop! Whoop! Armstrong Aggregates you are wonderful people. Thank you so much from Leicester Against Onshore Drilling. You have made the right choice and people will love you forever for it. xx

Thanks for seeing the light and doing the right thing for ceasing supply to as Yates and cuadrilla

Thank you so much for pulling out of supplying the fracking site. Hopefully other companies will follow your ethical lead. This will not be forgot and will be taught as business ethics supporting the community in the future. Well done�

Thank you so much for ending your involvement with AE Yeats and Cuadrilla. We, in the anti-fracking movement, realise this could not have been an easy decision, but it's the right one. Your children and grandchildren will thank you for not assisting with the destruction of their land and water and for keeping the air clean. We can only hope that other companies follow your lead. Many, many thanks.

Thank you from the bottom of all my families heart for pulling out from helping the Fracking monsters who are deliberately killing people and all of nature by poisoning our waters for money.. You have shown us that Armstrong have morals and care about your neighbours and protect your own drivers too, as this practice has made many drivers gravely ill.. Please do all you can to stop other haulage firms from helping these monsters of death too if you can.. from an extremely grateful Scottish trucker Thank you !.. Happy trucking good buddy, 10/10 over and out...

Thank you for your decision today, not to support the Toxic Fracking industry.

I hope you gain more business through this decision!

Thank you for what you have done today, you may well have saved the lives of many of our children from the pollution that this industry causes . You will be rewarded I'm sure .. I wish you well with future business.

Thank you for putting people above profit. Respect to you and great appreciation

Thank you for leaving the fracking and Cuadrilla. It shows integrity towards UKs future when all fossil fuel projects endanger now the quality of the our and the planet's future.

Thank you for doing the right thing for our planet , for our children

Thank you for choosing not to support fracking. It can't have been an easy choice, so well done you. x

Thank you for caring about our environment and community by refusing to supply aggregates for fracking

Thank you for being the first support company to publicly stop backing fracking. You've done the right thing, and I hope your business thrives as a result.

Thank you Armstrong! Respect to you for doing the right thing. Fracking harms us all but when we stand up against it, we all win.

Thank You from the bottom of my heart for being very brave and making the right decision today and being part of the solution to saving my community in the Fylde, Lancashire.

I wish you much success with your better contracts.

Regardless of your reasons, over 400 anti fracking groups across the country applaud your action today to cease working with Cuadrilla - we thank you. xx

I'm getting reports that you have pulled out of supplying aggregate to A E Yates and Cuadrilla at Little Plumpton. If this is true, thank you and long may you prosper!

Congratulations, and many thanks for taking what may have been a difficult business decision - but a morally and ethically correct decision to terminate your dealings with the ponzi-schemers Cuadrilla and the other company involved, AEYates. Well done, Armstrong Aggregates!

Cheers Armstrong Aggregates, the fracking industry is a filthy one, you do right to cancel any contract with it.