Imerys in Cornwall

09/06/2026

Our environment, health and safety team recently spent two days at St Austell Community Fire Station thanks to GWR and its annual Junior Life Skills Day.

Hundreds of Year 5 children from local schools come along to meet reps from train and bus providers, Cornwall Council and local businesses such as ours - to hear safety talks on a wide range of topics.

We were keen to explain the serious dangers of trespassing on active mining land and swimming in flooded pits.

We reminded them about the RNLI guidance, and to never try to jump into water to help a friend...
Call....999
Tell...them to float
Throw...something floaty if possible

The kids did a great job of listening and got to keep a pair of these very cool Imerys shades! 😎

Thanks to GWR for arranging this brilliant event every year 👏💙🙌

02/06/2026

Last week we were blessed with a sunny day to launch our new partnership with Natural England Cornwall Wildlife Trust Cornwall Heritage Trust and The Gaia Trust to form a new National Nature Reserve in mid-Cornwall at Goss Moor National Nature Reserve, Natural England 👏💚

👉Over 1,100 hectares of moorland, rare wildlife and thousands of years of Cornish heritage declared in total. 🌿

This remarkable landscape is home to rare species and habitats such as wet 'willow carr' woodland, willow tit, lesser butterfly orchid and hazel dormouse.

It also includes iconic sites such as Helman Tor, the Iron Age hillfort of Castle an Dinas, and Goss Moor, known locally to have been King Arthur’s favourite hunting ground!

Mark Hewson, who leads Imerys in the UK said:

"Nature restoration is central to modern mining and is built into the design and management of every pit.

“Local community involvement has been an essential element of this, and the clear message is that increased access for walkers, cyclists and horse riders is the number one priority.

“We are very proud to be working with our partners, creating this legacy for people and nature in the heart of Cornwall." 💚

Thanks to Imerys Male Voice Choir who did a wonder job entertaining the group over lunch 🫶

01/06/2026

Brilliant to see the good weather last week coincided with the annual Clay Walks Festival, thanks to the Eden Project for pulling it all together!

Led by the Butterfly Conservation group and local ecologists Bob and Libby - a group walked our recently opened Dubbers trail and spotted...... the Dingy Skipper, Orange-tip, Painted Lady, Speckled Wood, Common Blue, Peacock, Red Admiral and Small Copper butterflies!

As well as lots of birds and wildflowers 🦋🐛🐞

22/05/2026

The Clay Walk Festival is back next week - find out more from CornishStuff 👏🦋💚

What lives in a landscape that 250 years of mining left behind? More than you might think. For nine days over the half term break, the public is being invited to walk through one of Cornwall's strangest and most surprising corners. The Clay Walk Festival returns to the

19/05/2026

Great advice from RNLI for how to keep safe around water - especially important if this heatwave ever arrives! 💪💙😎

18/05/2026

Our annual football match reached new heights earlier this month with a nail biting 90 minutes at St Blazey Football club - raising an impressive £2,100 for Children's Hospice South West 💙

This year the event also featured a mini-training session for kids before the main game. Coaches from Plymouth Argyle Football Club shared tips for the budding soccer stars, who were delighted to receive an Imerys football and sweets as a thank you for taking part!

Local support brought the event together Fluid Branding donated footballs, OGY 1 Pasty Shop donated pasties for players, St Blazey FC gave free use of the ground and team members Mark Cockayne and Hannah Cutlan worked around the clock to bring the event together. 👏👏👏

Logistics co-ordinator Hannah explained more:
“Our staff football match last year was incredibly popular with teams massively over-subscribed. So we wanted to make it even bigger this year, with a kids entertainer/disco Amp and Decs Entertainment Cornwall, face painting from Dainty and Decay by Carolyn - Face Painting & Glitter Artistry Cornwall, and more ways to raise money for such an amazing cause.

“Massive thank you to everyone - from our local suppliers to the players , Steve Bendell from Plymouth Argyle and the brilliant kids who showed off their football skills! Everyone had so much fun - let’s see how we can make it bigger next year!” 👏💙🙌

Imerys donated £500 to top up the funds raised on the night. 💙

14/05/2026

Brilliant effort yesterday from our team of volunteers, led by environment, health and safety managers - down at Carlyon Bay.

Many bags of rubbish were collected, plus tyres, crates etc etc!

The beach clean also gave teams a chance to get away from work for a couple of hours, stretch their legs, chat to colleagues - setting a great example during Mental Health Awareness Week 💙👏💙

11/05/2026

Looking for things to do this May half term?🦋💙🦋

Thanks to the Eden Project, the Clay Walks Festival is back!

We are hosting a butterfly walk at our newly opened restoration project at Dubbers - all the info is below and on Eden website -

https://www.edenproject.com/our-mission/our-projects/nature-connections-activities-for-better-health-and-wellbeing/clay-walk

06/05/2026

Local students and environmental groups joined us to walk newly restored mining-land!🦋🌳🐝

A couple of weeks ago, we invited year six pupils from Whitemoor Academy & Nursery, students and teachers from Cornwall College University Centre at the Eden Project, Cornwall Council, the Environment Agency and local environmentalists from Cornwall Wildlife Trust - among many others - to join us for our official opening walk around Dubbers!

Dubbers - which is a Cornish word for miner’s pick-axe - is one of our restored china clay pits and has undergone significant transformation in recent years.

The site has been carefully filled, soil created and more than 100,000 trees planted across the area, supported by a DEFRA grant and is now home to an abundance of wildlife. The newly opened permissive pathways now provide another 3km of extra walking routes across this site.

All attendees went on a guided walk along the new routes, led by our environmental team and ecologist Bob Bosisto, learning more about how the site has been restored and the habitats now being established.

We are looking forward to seeing the site continue to evolve, working with partners and the local community as the restored landscape becomes a green space for future generations.

AND we have already started our next major restoration project near Fraddon - more info to follow soon!

The newly opened paths at Dubbers are featured in our footpath leaflet, and they form part of the extra 21 miles described within it! You can also source a paper copy either from Imerys offices on Par Moor Rd, or St Austell Tourist Information Offices.

Watch this to find out more! 👇

09/03/2026

Celebrating over 10 years of support for Cornwall Air Ambulance 🚁👏

Last week, a group of our tireless volunteer fundraisers were honoured to get the opportunity to visit Cornwall Air Ambulance - meeting the crew and getting an enviable chance to peek inside the incredible ‘flying intensive care unit’ that is on constant stand-by for our county.

The visit marked over 10 years of our support for the charity.

Just last year, our teams raised nearly £5,000 - thanks to a step challenge in September and our annual bowling night in St Austell!

Environment, health and safety manager Genna Bray, PA Michelle Millbanks and IT team leader Mark Cockayne joined Mark Hewson, who leads Imerys in the UK for the visit.

Julia Jeffery, corporate partnerships manager for Cornwall Air Ambulance said:

"It was great to welcome some of the Imerys team to our base in Newquay and we are very grateful for their fantastic fundraising efforts. It's thanks to the incredible support of organisations such as Imerys and the generosity of the people of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly that our crew can continue to be there for those who need us the most."

Mark Hewson went on:
“It was such a privilege to talk to this team of incredible people who save lives daily. I think we were all secretly very keen to have a look inside the helicopter- thankfully not as part of an emergency.

“Huge thanks to this vital charity for everything it does, day in and out - all year round - for both residents and visitors. We look forward to continuing our support over the years to come.”