Over 60% of its sales come from the cement sector which is combined with the production of ready-mixed concrete and aggregates.

However, the group, which has a turnover of £20m, has moved into ready-mixed concrete through a new company called Yorkshire Ready Mix and also launched into horticultural supplies through a garden waste-recycling business.

On the way home he stopped at a DlY centre and bought ready-mixed concrete.

Lone Star is a leading producer and importer of cement and a major source of ready-mixed concrete, sand, gravel, crushed stone, precast concrete products and other construction materials.

The Canada Estate area is home to the island's quarry site, and many subsidiary industries which manufacture blocks and ready-mixed concrete.

These may be supplied with concrete mixed on site, or may be provided with "ready-mixed" concrete made at permanent mixing sites.

The construction materials businesses produce rock, sand, gravel, asphaltic concrete, ready-mixed concrete, and precast concrete products.

Storage of materials and the effort of mixing are eliminated by using ready-mixed concrete, which is available in two forms.

Their company introduced ready-mixed concrete to South Florida and by the 1940's they operated 65 concrete plants across the southeast United States and the Caribbean.

In the United States alone, concrete production is a $30 billion per year industry, considering only the value of the ready-mixed concrete sold each year.