The UK’s only floating ready-mixed concrete plant was playing a major part in the development of East London’s former docklands area - keeping hundreds of trucks off the city’s congested roads.

Moored to the Wood Wharf quayside at West India Docks, the Hanson plant supplied up to 800 cubic metres a day of concrete to high-rise office and residential developments in the city’s Canary Wharf business and finance centre. Most of the deliveries were to projects within half a mile, and virtually all the aggregates were delivered by barge along the River Thames, significantly reducing the number of truck mixers and tippers on the busy local road network.

HeidelbergCement’s subsidiary Hanson was one of the first concrete producers to work on Canary Wharf when the vision of regenerating London’s once proud but decaying docklands began to take shape. Hanson’s success at Canary Wharf has positioned the company as the industry expert in the design and production of pumped concrete mixes for high rise and slip-form construction.

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