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Thomas Concrete Group new majority owner of Polish Scanbet

2024-04-03

Thomas Concrete Group, headquartered in Sweden, has acquired the majority of the shares in the Polish concrete company Scanbet, with a total of 200 employees and annual sales of approximately SEK 250 million.

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Thomas Concrete Group is growing in Germany

2024-01-29

Through its German subsidiary, Thomas Beton GmbH, Thomas Concrete Group is now acquiring the assets of Massfeller Transport GmbH, a company that delivers ready-mix concrete and certain precast concrete elements. The company is based in Herschbach in western Germany.

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Large concrete order for historic bridge project in Germany

2023-10-17

Thomas Concrete Group's German subsidiary, Thomas Beton GmbH, has been tasked with delivering concrete for the prestigious replacement building of the "Pfaffendorfer Brücke" in Koblenz, Germany. The project involves an extensive overhaul of the bridge, which is one of the city's major traffic arteries and a historic symbol of the Rhine.

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70,000 m³ of concrete delivered for infrastructure project in northern Poland

2023-09-28

Thomas Concrete Group's Polish subsidiary, Thomas Beton, will have supplied a total of 70,000 m³ of concrete for the completion of the ring road around Koszalin and Sianów for the major infrastructure project S6 in northern Poland. The contract is worth nearly 97 million euros and the project is expected to be completed in 2024.

Sustainability, Trends, News

Building structures for coral reefs using low-carbon concrete

2022-10-17

Right now, an exciting project is underway off the north of the West Coast. Preparations are being made to submerge a significant amount of artificial reefs made of concrete with the hope of recreating the conditions for viable coral reefs, which have recently declined sharply.

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The importance of combining design and materials

2022-09-20

On October 11 one of the industry's leading researchers, Dr. Philippe Block, is invited as one of the speakers at Thomas Concrete Groups industry event about building a sustainable Gothenburg and the importance of concrete. To address the grand challenges posed by climate change, Dr Philippe Block and his research group’s research focus on how historic structural design in combination with the right material can be reintroduced in modern day practice.

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We still see a great potential in Europe’s largest market

2022-07-12

Thomas Concrete Group is expanding in Europe's largest economy. The Group's German operation, Thomas Betong GmbH, recently acquired a 40-year-old, medium-sized company in Rhineland-Palatinate, which means that it is now represented in six of the country's 16 federal republics.

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Thomas Concrete Group expands: Acquires concrete plants in Germany and the USA

2022-01-10

The family-owned Swedish group Thomas Concrete Group, based in Gothenburg, is growing steadily and is now making three international, offensive acquisitions. In total, there are seven concrete plants with approximately SEK 250 million in sales in Germany and the USA. With the acquisitions, Thomas Concrete Group further strengthens its position in the two markets.