Cookstown-based cement production business Lafarge Cement Ireland has been acquired by Cookstown Cement Ltd, for an undisclosed sum.
Cookstown Cement Ltd is led and Renewables in a move the co-owned by Managing Director, David Millar, a former executive with Lafarge who has 38 years experience in the cement and construction
industries.
The company has acquired all the business of Lafarge Ireland from Aggregate Industries, part of Switzerland-based Holcim Group including a cement plant production capacity in excess of 450,000 tonnes in Cookstown limestone quarry also in Cookstown, a shale quarry in Dungannon, and an import export facility in Belfast Harbour.