CRH rules out supply to Trump’s planned Mexican wall

CRH CEO, Albert Manifold, has insisted that its US businesses will not supply materials for the construction of Donald Trump's planned wall between the USA and Mexico.

He said that CRH's geographic spread in the US is primarily focussed on the Northeast and Midwest and has “no significant operations anywhere near southern Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and southern California.

"We've a broad-based business through the United States — in fact we're present in all 50," he said. "But one area where we do not have any significant presence is in the extreme south of the United States. The materials we supply are local by nature."

Mr Manifold pointed out that while CRH has a presence in Texas for instance, it mainly does business in cities such as Dallas, Fort Worth and Austin.