It is an exercise that seems outdated however is important to development and public works. Each 12 months, greater than 300 million tonnes of rock fragments (sand and gravel) are extracted from French soil, or somewhat greater than 4 tonnes per inhabitant. For their functions, Colas (Bouygues), Eurovia (Vinci) and Lafarge are the biggest quarry operators, however there are nonetheless many unbiased native quarry operators. According to the National Union of Quarry Industries and Construction Materials (Unicem), 2,500 quarries are operated all through France, with aggregates consumed a couple of dozen kilometers from the positioning from which they’re extracted utilizing explosives.
For three years, this ancestral sector has been affected by robust tensions between rivals. Faced with worth will increase and allegedly unfair industrial practices imposed on it by its two fundamental suppliers of explosives, the Australian Dyno Nobel, world primary, and the French EPC Groupe, the Caen SME Exploroc, specializing within the drilling and mining of quarry rocks, is stepping up its actions earlier than the Competition Authority.
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