Tarmac Group 2011, Anglo-American announced a proposed joint venture with Lafarge that involved combining both companies' aggregates businesses in the United Kingdom. The merger, which excluded Tarmac Building Products, was completed in March 2013, following receipt of necessary approvals from the UK Competition Commission, forming Lafarge Tarmac. Tarmac Building Products, the last part of the business still wholly owned by Anglo-American, was acquired by Lafarge Tarmac in April 2014. Tarmac Group consisted of Tarmac Building Products, Tarmac Middle East and 50% of Lafarge Tarmac. Tarmac Building Products was the largest supplier in the United Kingdom of heavy building products. It supplied aircrete
Material of the Future a worldwide view from a variety of perspectives considering what the true value of plastic is. Covered topics include re-usable plastics, plastic pollution, plastic industry, controversies of plastic recycling, bioplastics, and plastics in human health. The film includes footage from Chinese recycling facilities, the world's largest plastics convention, the Los Angeles bag ban, heart replacement surgery, the Plasticarium in Brussels, and is interspersed with interviews from scientists, authors, artists, and environmentalists. The film is scored by Richard Swift with additional music from Baths and a previously unreleased track from Animal Collective. Material of the Future Material of the Future is