Johnstone Concrete & Quarries Pty Ltd is a family business with a long history in gravel operations. The current Managers are Mitchell & Lachlan Johnstone, together their parents Paul and Julie Johnstone.
Paul began working in his father’s family gravel operation with his brothers in the 1960’s. In 1979, Paul and his brother settled in the Moree and Warialda areas to operate a gravel business. The property ‘Runnymead’ near Pallamallawa was purchased in 1986, and a gravel quarry set up there.
A ready mix concrete business, located in Kurrajong Street Moree, was purchased in 1987, and concrete plant set up in Warialda and Mungindi in 1999.
In 2011, the Company restructured operations and Paul and Julie introduced their sons Mitch and Lachlan to the business as Directors.
The company expanded further in 2018 with the purchase of Inglewood Quarries at Inglewood, Queensland, and the setting up of a concrete batch plant at Goondiwindi QLD and more recently in 2021 the purchase of a secondary blue metal rock quarry in Inglewood for oversupply and also the setting up of a mobile concrete plant at Colly Farms Collarenabri NSW.
JCQ also completed a major fixed plant rebuild at Runnymede Quarry NSW in 2021 to further meet our customer requirements. The new fixed plant includes all the latest technologies in crushing and screening equipment.