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Aggregates & Minerals
WELSH SLATE'S FFESTINIOG ROOFING SLATE FEATURES AT RHS CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW
Blue Grey roofing slates from Welsh Slate’s newly re-opened Ffestiniog quarry feature alongside decorative aggregates and Breedon Golden Amber self-binding gravel from Breedon Special Aggregates on the RBC Brewin Dolphin Garden designed by acclaimed garde

General
COMPETITION OPEN FROM MONDAY 1 MAY 2023
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Community
MAKING A DIFFERENCE
Welsh Slate's Ffiona has spent her volunteering hours giving a helping hand to 'warm space' an initiative run on behalf of Betws y Coed Community Council

Ffestiniog Quarry
THE RT HON LIZ SAVILLE ROBERTS MP VISITS FFESTINIOG QUARRY
We were delighted to welcome The Rt Hon Liz Saville Roberts MP for Dwyfor Meirionnydd to site on the re-opening of Ffestiniog Quarry which will create 19 new jobs across our 3 sites, Ffestiniog, Cwt-y-Bugail & Penrhyn

Hard Landscaping
FROM COMICS TO COPINGS
The house, which was designed as one of a pair by AHR Architecture, uses Welsh Slate products on various aspects – as vertical cladding on elevational features including a “chimney” on the house, and for hard landscaping, as walling and copings to terrace

Ffestiniog Quarry
THE WORLD RENOWNED FFESTINIOG BLUE GREY SLATE IS BACK IN FULL PRODUCTION
Formed by the Ordovician slate beds laid down over 470 million years ago. Ffestiniog Quarry has been producing slates from 1818

Community
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
A presentation to Year 11 students at Ysgol Dyffryn Ogwen Bethesda on jobs, training and progression opportunities provided for by the company, and the scope of different jobs available within Welsh Slate and within the wider Breedon Group.

Roofing
WELSH SLATES HELP A NATIONAL MUSEUM WITH A NEW TOP HAT
Almost 150 years after work first started on its purpose-built home, the Netherland’s national museum is enjoying a new lease of life with Ffestiniog Blue Grey roofing slate

Ffestiniog Quarry
FROM FOGS TO FAME, WITH WELSH SLATE
Some 30,000 Ffestiniog Blue Grey slates were used for the reroof of the roof of the Central range, while Penrhyn Heather Blue slates were used by Mundy Roofing on the eastern and western ranges of London’s historic Kings Cross railway station.

Ffestiniog Quarry
ST MARTIN’S GOES BACK TO THE FUTURE WITH WELSH SLATE
Welsh Slate has supplied roofing slates from both its Penrhyn and Ffestiniog quarries to provide a like-for-like replacement for an old 19th century roof at London’s famous St Martin-in-the-Fields church complex.

Ffestiniog Quarry
WELSH SLATE TOPS AN ICONIC GATEWAY TO EUROPE
Some 80,000 Ffestiniog 500mm x 300mm slates were installed on the roof of the Barlow Shed St Pancras Station as part of the station’s award-winning £380 million refurbishment.

Ffestiniog Quarry
WELSH SLATES HELP A NATIONAL MUSEUM WITH A NEW TOP HAT
Almost 150 years after work first started on its purpose-built home, the Netherland’s national museum is enjoying a new lease of life, thanks in part to Ffestiniog Welsh Slate.