The Isle of Man's Poortown Quarry has been upgraded with new Metso Minerals equipment

Rich investment

New crushing and screening equipment investment at the Isle of Man's historic Poortown Quarry has given the site a new lease of life

The Isle of Man is world famous for the motorbike TT races and attracts motorsport fans from far and wide who want to test the island's famous roads for themselves. Probably few consider where the materials to surface the island's roads came from but for the last 128 years much of the aggregates have been sourced from Poortown Quarry.

The government owned quarry, which opened in 1880, has just been given a new lease of life which will ensure the island has enough road aggregates for another 80 years. The quarry area has been extended and operation of the site modernised with

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