Aggregates Europe

Aggregates Europe promotes the interests of and contribution to sustainable development of the largest non-energy extractive industry with an annual production of 3 billion tonnes, with 26,000 extraction sites across Europe operated by 15,000 companies – most of them SMEs.

Aggregates are a granular material used in construction, i.e. sand, gravel, marine aggregates, crushed rock, recycled and manufactured aggregates.

Every new home typically requires up to 400 tonnes of aggregates. Every new 1km of roadway requires up to 30,000 tonnes of aggregates. Aggregates are indeed the core building material in all our homes, offices, social buildings and infrastructure: without aggregates these would literally fall apart. Like for water and air, the question for the supply with aggregates is not whether we need it but how to get these materials in the most sustainable way.