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ockleys Brick
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CAVsthanks to Blockleys Brick for supplying our test loads. For more than a century, Blockleys has been turning out bricks at its Telford site, the company was more than happy to lend CM 80 self-contained brick-blocks for our test.
Blockleys Brick was founded in 1894 by Benjamin Pollard Blockley; it remained a family firm for 106 years.
In 2000, the Mickelmersh Group bought the company, adding it to a portfolio comprising Charnwood Bricks, Dunton Brothers and Mickelmersh Brick and Tile. This has allowed Blockleys to expand and to gradually move from prestige commercial projects to the domestic housing market.
Today, Blockleys has an annual capacity of 50 million stock-facing bricks, extruded wire-cut facing Pricks and clay paving bricks, making it the biggest brick producer in the Mickelmersh Group.
A new factory is due to open in November, boosting production to 60 million bricks a year. All the Etruria Marl clay used in its products is quarried out of its site in Telford.
Blockleys exports its products around the world — its main overseas market is Scandinavia — but the core of its business is in the UK.
More than 30 trucks run into and out of the Telford site, but rnost housing, construction and brick merchant customers prefer to collect their orders, leaving three owner-drivers to handle deliveries.
Currently, turnover is running at 10m a year and the company employs 120 people on the 80-acre site. In March, Mickelmersh Brick Holdings was launched on the stock exchange as a public limited company, raising £5.2m for its programme of continued expansion. Contact www.blocIdeys.com