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We recently had an interesting visitor to our site in Edmonton -MP Kate Osamor It’s so reassuring to know we have the support of our local MP.. she is clearly on our side and can see what a disaster the 2028 ban would do to our industry!

Please see what MP Osamor wrote about her visit on her Instagram post below-“It was a pleasure to visit Mixamate in Edmonton today and meet with the Managing Director Chris Smith.

I am very concerned at how new lower weight limits for Volumetric Concrete Mixers set to be brought in from 2028 could impact his business and result in job loses.

I will be writing to the Government to urge them to reconsider these rules”.

We are so grateful for such support and hope it helps our fight

The more MP’s on our side, the better!

Following the announcement last week that Danish firm Dansk Mobil Beton have brought forward their order to IHS Ltd for the latest Dinnington-built volumetric concrete mobile plant, Rother Valley’s Labour MP Jake Richards, who visited IHS in Dinnington in his constituency last Friday, said: “This is great news for UK manufacturing and is part of a half million pound order from Denmark for these advanced concrete delivery plants.”

2025 celebrates the 50th anniversary of the invention of Volumetric concrete mobile plants in the UK as a modern alternative to old fashioned drum mixers. While drums are limited to carrying one strength of concrete at a time, VCM’s can make and pour any combination of concrete strengths. In effect they do the work of up to 6 drum mixers and don’t have to keep returning to the depot, cutting emissions, fuel use and road miles.

VCMs also produce no waste concrete and they don’t waste water – it takes 1,000 litres at the end of every day to flush out every drum mixer – that is a staggering 1.4 billion litres wasted cleaning the UK’s 6,000 drum mixers every year.

The Managing Director of IHS, Chris J Smith is very proud of this achievement. “Currently we have orders from three continents, selling to Brazil and Canada as well as Denmark and Europe. Together at IHS and our distributer Mixamate, we took VCMs to a new level in 2008, by fitting a concrete pump to our 44 tonne VCMs, removing the need for a second concrete HGV that often accompanies drum mixers. This is what makes our mobile plants so desirable around the world.”