You use 1 Kg of aggregates per hour.

The European average aggregates demand is 6 tonnes per capita per year.

By far the largest non-energy extractive industry.

The European Aggregates Industry provides Europe with 3 billion tonnes of aggregates, produced by 15,000 companies (mostly SMEs) operating 26,000 sites, employing 187,000 people across Europe.

After air and water, aggregates are the most used raw material in the world.

The question is where to get it from in the most sustainable way.

Aggregates extraction sites: a shelter for biodiversity.

Aggregates extraction sites are home to numerous protected species.

Aggregates producers are providing primary and secondary raw materials.

Our industry recycles construction and demolition waste and leads on other sources for secondary raw materials.

Renewable energy produced and used on site brings aggregates producers close to climate-neutrality

Floating or fixed PV-panels, wind turbines, gravity and alternative fuels are part of the energy mix.

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Aggregates Europe – UEPG represents the European Aggregates Industry in Brussels, with Members in 25 countries, lobbying European institutions & stakeholders on issues key to the industry. Our vision is a Sustainable Industry for a Sustainable Europe. Our mission is to be the Industry Champion and a trusted Partner. Aggregates Europe – UEPG Core Values are to be Open, Transparent and Honest.

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What are aggregates?

Aggregates are granular materials used in construction, including sand, gravel, crushed rock, marine, recycled and manufactured aggregates. They are extracted from quarries, sand & gravel extraction sites, seldom sea dredged, recycled from construction & demolition waste, and manufactured from other industrial processes.

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