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On Wednesday 17th October 2018, Our HR Manager Lesley, our Marketing and Web Content manager Daniel, and our Bolton Sixth Form College work placement student Thomas attended the national apprenticeship show at Bolton Arena. We attended the fair to showcase our new apprenticeship scheme that will be launching in the near future and to discuss […]

Armstrongs Group recently took new delivery of a Case 2050 bulldozer to be used at our Pilkington quarry. Pilkington Quarry covers 53 acres near the town of Horwich and has been operational for in excess of one hundred years. Pilkington 1 is exhausted but carries permissions to receive 2M tones of inerts waste, whilst Pilkington […]

After much deliberation from our team of experts on our cake judging panel (Emma and Sam) it has been decided that the winner, and Star Baker, of our Great Armstrongs Bake Off for Macmillan Coffee Morning is Barry O’Hanlon. Barry is our Amix Concrete general manager and delivered a phenomenal showstopper- A Cherry bakewell Tart. […]

This year the team have excelled with their baking for Macmillan Coffee Morning! We had a wide variety of cakes on offer and an amazing raffle to boot! We would like to thank Nuts Engineering supplies, West Pennine trucks (Scania), Bandag Tyres, Hitachi Construction Machinery, T & C Site services ltd, Trafford Brake and Hose Services, BBS […]

On Thursday 6th September 2018 our brilliant team at AMIX Concrete supplied a mixer full of concrete to a local community build here in Bolton. At the time of writing the project itself is top secret, but we are proud to be able to serve and help our community. We believe here at Armstrongs Group […]

On Wednesday 5th September 2018 we had the privilege of welcoming Charlie Holt of BBC Lancashire to our stone workshop in Horwich and Brinscall Quarry in Chorley to see where our Brinscall stone comes from before being sent to Barcelona for La Sagrada Familia!   Did you catch us on the radio?