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Total deliveries of clay bricks decreased from 2668 million bricks in 2004 to 2419 million bricks in 2005 and actual production<br />
decreased slightly from 2707 million bricks in 2004 to 2601 million bricks in 2005. Clay brick stocks were 776 million in 2005 up<br />
slightly on 600 million in 2004. Marshalls Plc, the landscape and stone products group, sold its clay brick business to Hanson Plc<br />
at the end of 2004 for £65 million. Marshalls Clay Products was the fifth largest brick manufacturer in the UK, producing around<br />
160 million brick equivalents a year and in the year ending 2004. In 2004, Hanson Brick also purchased Wilnecote Brick from<br />
Tarmac for an undisclosed sum. Wilnecote Brick operates one modern plant at Tamworth in Staffordshire with a capacity of about<br />
35 million bricks per year. The plant is based on mudstones of the Etruria Formation, the premium brick clay produced in Britain.<br />
The acquisition now makes Hanson Brick the leading UK brick manufacturer with Ibstock Brick the second largest.<br />
The Austrian group Wienerberger, the world’s leading brick producer, acquired ‘The brickbusiness’ for about £90 million, in early<br />
2005. The brickbusiness was formed in 2002 by the merger of Ambion Brick and Chelwood Brick and is the UK’s third largest<br />
brick producer with nine works and sales of £64 million in 2003/4. It accounted for about 17 per cent of UK brick sales. Great<br />
Britain is by far the largest European market for facing bricks.<br />
great britain production of bricks, blocks and tiles 1995–2004<br />
Material 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004<br />
Millions<br />
Bricks:<br />
Clay 3 025 2 849 (a) 2 828 (a) 2 830 (a) 2 759 (a) 2 694 (a) 2 595 (a) 2 600 (a) 2 606 (a) 2 707<br />
Sandlime 40 31 … … … … … … … …<br />
Concrete 191 166 169 171 180 170 159 150 167 161<br />
Total 3 256 3 046 2 997 3 000 2 939 2 864 2 754 2 750 2 772 2 868<br />
Brick Production<br />
Region<br />
North East 190 150 160 154 133 130 136 138 137 147<br />
Yorkshire and the Humber 278 234 218 194 211 195 186 187 186 195<br />
East Midlands 415 447 473 518 522 508 495 480 487 514<br />
East of England 365 370 325 248 331 334 321 349 362 343<br />
South East 540 523 535 565 409 394 385 371 346 346<br />
South West 171 168 152 146 145 148 132 129 132 143<br />
West Midlands 649 576 558 598 573 572 558 570 586 624<br />
North West 313 295 295 303 320 292 299 290 296 312<br />
england 2 921 2 763 2 718 2 727 2 643 2 573 2 513 2 513 2 531 2 624<br />
Wales 121 106 104 102 123 109 106 106 119 117<br />
scotland 214 177 176 172 174 181 136 131 122 127<br />
great britain 3 256 3 046 2 997 3 000 2 939 2 864 2 754 2 750 2 772 2 868<br />
Million square metres<br />
Concrete building blocks:<br />
Dense aggregate 36.9 35.0 37.3 39.4 38.4 37.6 36.6 35.7 36.8 37.7<br />
Lightweight aggregate 18.1 16.3 17.8 19.1 20.8 23.0 22.7 23.5 25.0 25.5<br />
Aerated concrete 23.2 24.6 27.5 26.1 28.5 29.6 28.6 32.3 33.9 33.1<br />
Total 78.3 75.9 82.5 84.7 87.8 90.2 87.9 91.5 95.7 96.3<br />
Roofing tiles:<br />
Concrete 26.1 24.7 25.0 25.0 26.0 26.8 24.8 25.0 21.4 20.7<br />
(a) Including sandlime bricks. Source: Department of Trade and Industry.<br />
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