Our Concern for people
We treat our people as the most important resource of our company:

• Health & Safety is our No. 1 priority
  The well-being of our employees and the people who work with us on our sites and transport our products is our first priority. We continually strive to achieve the safety benchmarks set by leading international players in our industry. Our “I care for our safety” campaign exemplifies this.

• Our HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care programme supported by Life Works, is highly regarded in South Africa as an effective ongoing employee support intervention
   
• People development
  Our people have a wealth of experience and knowledge in their respective fields with strong credentials. Ash Resources aims to develop its employees to their full potential. Our continuous goal is to attract, develop and retain the best talent.
   
• Our concern for local communities
  Ash Resources believes that businesses in South Africa have a shared responsibility with government and society in general, to help develop strong and sustainable communities and to this end we continue to support local businesses wherever possible as part of our enterprise development drive.

Environmental Benefits

Offering the construction industry sustainable options

One of the unique features of our products is their sustainability providing a viable alternative to nonrenewable primary aggregates. Ash Resources aims to maintain its leading position as South Africa’s preferred supplier of premium fly ash products and the major environmental benefi ts they offer the Construction Industry.

These environmentally-friendly attributes of fly ash products are recognised worldwide. Each ton of fly ash used in cementitious products saves approximately one ton of CO2 emissions (the ‘greenhouse’ gas, carbon dioxide). In the last decade, it is estimated that the use of Ash Resources’ fly ash products by the South African cement and construction industries has saved the country in excess of 6 million tons of harmful greenhouse gas emissions.

Ash Resources has pioneered the development of fly ash to be an important component of ‘greener’, more sustainable concrete. Our siliceous fly ash is an effective Portland cement extender that, when used as a binder, enhances both the fresh and hardened properties of concrete. However, it is also an environmentally friendly material, which is used to:

• Recycle a bituminous hard coal waste-product into a value adding cementitious by-product
• Reduce the usage of non-renewable natural resources
• Save energy
• Reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions
• Cut down on the size of power station landfi ll sites

Concern for the environment

A core belief at Ash Resources is that sustainable development has to be an essential part of the search for more efficient and effective products and solutions for the construction industry.

• The international trend is to develop new cement formulations that use less clinker and consequently reduce the environmental impact of the cement manufacturing process for this most important building material
• Increasingly in South Africa, players in the built environment are having to factor in sustainability, life-cycle costing and environmental requirements to their planning and construction methodologies

Specification Compliance  In addition to our fly ash products’ compliance to stringent South African specifications, they also meet the exacting standards of many international specifications e.g. EN 450’S’ and ‘N’, ASTM C618b, BS3892: Part I and EN 197 as a constituent material.

Our Production Facilities

Ash Resources is an ISO 9001:2000 listed company. Our regularly audited Quality Management System (QMS) together with stringent quality control reaffirms quality as one of our core values and assures customers that quality is central to all parts of our business. Our existing production sites are situated in four provinces, next to major Eskom bituminous coal-fired power stations. Selected fly ash is recovered and conveyed to the Ash Resources processing plants for conversion into quality products, based on the chemical and physical characteristics of the specific source of raw fly ash.