AL Blair
construction is a construction supplier and supplier of quality aggregates in
the Ottawa and Eastern Ontario region.
They are a multi-task company providing services from trucking to custom
crushing, stone quarries and pumped concrete.
Stone quarries are essentially an open pit where
aggregates and building materials are extracted. It is almost like an open pit
mine where stones and minerals are extracted. The products that AL Blair
showcase are from their many stone
quarries throughout eastern Ontario area. In these stone quarries they extract materials such as chalk, cinder,
limestone, marble. AL Blair Construction
also extracts specialty products from stone quarries such as gabion stone, armour stone, ice chips, asphalt grindings
and concrete stone.
Stone quarries
are a very important part of our communities and the lives we live. In Ontario
alone, there are mulitiple stone quarries that serve a unique purpose. Why are
stone quarries so important? It is because according to statistics an average
Canadian uses 14.0 tonnes of aggregates in their lifetime. The number is so
high because we all use pumped concrete
and materials that are extracted from stone
quarries such as roads, airports, schools or anything else that requires
crushed stone. We are using more aggregates from stone quarries than can be produced fast enough, they are in high
demand for public infrastructure.
Stone quarries
are so important because basically every job and every home in Ontario relies
on stone, sand and gravel. The municipal, federal and provincial government to
expand roads, highways and infrastructure uses with the aggregates that come
from stone quarries. To be exact, 52% of all construction aggregates from stone quarries go to building,
constructing and expanding new highways and roadways. There is many other uses
for aggregates from stone quarries that make up the other 48% including
concrete aggregate, chemical use, asphalt aggregate, mortar sand, pulverized
stone and dimensional stone.
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It is a vital
part of everyone’s lives, whether you live in an urban setting, a rural
environment or the suburbs. Aggregates from stone quarries are a vital part of everyone’s lives, the buildings
we work in, schools our children go to school to are all products of aggregates
from stone quarries. Another use for
aggregates from stone quarries are
also used to purify and filter water believe it or not and are used in
cosmetics as fillers. They are also used within your home for household
products from toothpaste and paper to cleaning products and chewing gum.
More
aggregates from stone quarries are
used in rural communities while concrete pumping services are more common in
the city and urban- centers. It is used for loads of things inside and outside
of homes. Aggregates from stone quarries
can be used for corning wear, vases, plates, windows, roofing, septic tanks,
storm drains, foundations, in fields for fertilizer, for bricks and mortar, for
decorative pieces around the house and walk way and so much more.
AL Blair Construction is an experienced construction
supplier with several stone quarries
that focuses on minimizing the impacts and maximizing the benefits that
aggregates provide to Eastern Ontario and the Ottawa region.
