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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-25-036321"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CRH"
cik: "0000849395"
company_name: "CRH PUBLIC LTD CO"
filed_at: "2025-07-29T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T23:54:53.534818+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.9
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.9
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# CRH acquires Eco Material Technologies for $2.1B, expanding North America cementitious supply

## Summary
- Deal value $2.1B; funded with cash on hand; no change expected in credit ratings.
- Eco Material supplies SCMs (fly ash, pozzolans, gypsum) from over 125 locations across North America.
- Acquisition secures long-term supply of critical materials and strengthens CRH's cementitious market position.
- Transaction subject to regulatory approval and customary closing conditions, expected to close in 2025.
- Over 1,100 Eco Material employees will join CRH; business to operate as Eco Material Technologies, a CRH Company.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-25-036321
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CRH
- cik: 0000849395
- company_name: CRH PUBLIC LTD CO
- filed_at: 2025-07-29T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.9
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.9
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/849395/000162828025036321/0001628280-25-036321-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/849395/000162828025036321/crh-20250729.htm

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