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Windmills and Cash Machines
Wednesday 13 July, 2011
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Windmills, cash machines and Specialist Aggregates

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Perhaps it had been a long day but on winding down I realised an amazing connection between my first job as a company representative for the quarrying company Tarmac and a recently secured contract to source aggregates for "hole-in-the wall" cash machines.

In 1983, the then privately owned Windmill Sand and Gravel Company located at Essington near Wolverhampton was acquired by Tarmac. Chubb Locks who were just down the road in Willenhall routinely specified the gravel as an infill to their safes as it was very hard and had a relatively high melting point. (Around 900 degrees )

Some 28 years later (and along the way having purchased the co-incidentally named "Windmill Aggregates" based in Great Dunmow, Essex), Specialist Aggregates finds itself involved in the specification and supply of refractory gravels to manufacturers of cash machines.

The application is the same, to provide a hard flame resistant lining to a safe but now the melting point requirement has increased to close on 2000 degrees. Our third image on the right shows the refractory alumina as supplied by Specialist Aggregates.

To paraphrase the well-known song "its amazing the connections that you find in the windmills of your mind".




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