Rebuilding Christchurch | Christchurch Ready Mix Concrete
Three land-based quarries in Amberley, Woodend and Yaldhurst produce a large range of specialist sands, while the Yaldhurst quarry is also consented for a clean-fill operation. Christchurch Ready Mix Concrete runs a small civil contracting team which undertakes small to medium sized projects such as subdivisions, car parks, driveways, building site preparation, horse arenas, retaining walls and earthquake repair works throughout Canterbury. The civil contracting team’s services sit comfortably alongside the business’ core operations and have been in strong demand since the earthquakes. Trade yards operate at Hornby, Belfast and Woodend, selling sand, cement, brick ties, additives, tooling and other associated products. Landscape and gardening supplies are also available at the Woodend site. Christchurch Ready Mix Concrete employs its own mechanics, technicians and engineers to service its fleet of more than 200 mobile and fixed plant items. The company also builds and fabricates new plant items when improvements or upgrades are required.
Christchurch Ready Mix Concrete is an innovator in the concrete industry and was one of the first company’s in New Zealand to supply premixed concrete to building sites. Roy Grant, the son of company founder RG Grant, first saw ready mix concrete being delivered in trucks during a visit to the United States in the early 1960s. Back in Canterbury he quickly developed the process and in November 1962, Ready Mix Concrete Limited was incorporated as a subsidiary of RG Grant’s company, Transport North Canterbury Limited. A few months later, the first loads of concrete were batched from the Empire Road, Belfast Site, which is still the company’s main operating base today. The development of ready mix concrete delivered a valuable solution to the
Christchurch Ready Mix Concrete offers a range of concrete services and products.
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construction industry, which was quick to take up the new product. Initially, Ready Mix Concrete’s Belfast site just had a small concrete plant and two trucks, but by the early 1970s it owned 16 trucks and had diversified into aggregate and sand extraction from the Waimakariri River, as well as developing a civil contracting division. RG Grant’s three sons, Roy, Bob and Roly, and daughter Norma, all worked within its parent company, Transport North Canterbury, which was founded in 1939. Bob and Roly later took over Christchurch Ready Mix Concrete. Today Christchurch Ready Mix Concrete is the only remaining division of Transport North Canterbury. It employs more than 120 staff and is owned by the estate of RL Grant.
Christchurch Ready Mix Concrete 10 Empire Road Belfast Christchurch T (03) 323 8149 E info@chch-readymix.co.nz www.chch-readymix.co.nz — Advertising Feature
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