AGGREGATE & QUARRY ASSOCIATION
Latest News
AQA MEDIA RELEASES & ARTICLES
Included on this page are important news releases and industry related articles pertinent to the AQA and all its members. For media enquiries, contact our Communications Manager.
Want more AQA news? We have two regular newsletters available for reading in our members only section. Join us or enquire about membership.
Auckland heading into a crisis with sand decision
The quarry industry warns Auckland faces an almost immediate crisis for road and building construction after consent application for coastal sand extraction at Pakiri near Mangawhai were declined. Aggregate and Quarry Association CEO Wayne Scott says the decision of...
New Zealand must deliver new infrastructure strategy to stay first-world
A world-class strategy that New Zealand must embrace and rapidly deliver if we want to remain a first-world economy. That’s how the quarry industry has responded to today’s release of the strategy for the next 30 years from Te Waihanga, the New Zealand Infrastructure...
Lime poised to benefit from rising price of fertilisers
With farmers facing huge increases in the price of fertilisers, some of which are further hit by foreign shipping costs, the country’s lime industry is pointing to the benefits of their locally-extracted product. New Zealand Limestone Producers Association member...
Featherston quarry approval emerges as river sources deplete
Featherston quarry operator Peter Warren says he’s pleased a long and challenging process to get approval for a new quarry on the outskirts of the town has concluded. South Wairarapa District Council last week approved the consent for PJ Warren Earthmoving to process...
INFRASTRUCTURE STUDY PROVIDES SOLUTIONS – LET’S IMPLEMENT THEM
The quarry industry says it will work with Government agencies to remedy policies which a NZ Infrastructure Commission Te Waihanga study says make it harder to access the aggregate needed to meet growing demand. Aggregate and Quarry Association (AQA) CEO Wayne Scott...
Rock our Future rocks on
Pupils from schools in Oamaru and Pukekohe are this year’s winners in the Rock our Future competition. AQA CEO Wayne Scott says the competition’s third year required school students to write an essay describing their experiences at a quarry and what they learned. “We...
Forest & Bird beating a hollow and expensive drum
Forest & Bird's opposition to new consenting pathways for quarries is a call to burn more fuel and add cost to every new home, says the Aggregate and Quarry Association. CEO Wayne Scott says F&B is effectively telling its members that sometimes tiny patches of...
Dunedin quarries sweep national industry awards
Dunedin’s Blackhead Quarries has swept the annual national awards of the quarry industry. At a gala dinner in Wellington on Friday night, Blackhead Quarries and associated companies took five of the seven awards given to quarries competing from around the country....
Quarries essential to NZ’s $61b infrastructure pipeline
A clarion call from New Zealand Infrastructure Commission, Te Waihanga, CEO Ross Copland for decisionmakers to allow quarries to exist near urban centres is being applauded by the quarry sector. In a keynote address to the QuarryNZ conference in Wellington today, Ross...
Crunch time for infrastructure supply from quarries
The quarry industry meets this week in Wellington facing escalating demand for what they produce and dwindling supply. Aggregate and Quarry Association CEO Wayne Scott says you don’t need an economics degree to work out that Kiwis soon face steeply rising prices for...
ABOUT QUARRYING IN NEW ZEALAND
USING AGGREGATE
Aggregates are the most consumed bulk product in the world after water. New Zealand uses 9-10 tonnes of aggregate every year for each adult and child.
BUILDING NZ
To build an average house, you need about 250 tonnes of aggregate - for use in concrete, asphalt, mortar and building products.
OUR COMMUNITY
The quarry industry is committed to working alongside local communities and follows stringent planning, environmental and operating conditions.