Al Buraimi Crushing plant are producing good quality manufactured sand, which is leading to higher demand, and thereby, optimization of their plants in the highly competitive aggregates business.

Natural sand has found application in coastal areas in some countries. This sands however have excess chlorides due their deposition in saline water and hence needs treatment before being used. These sands are generally suitable for making concrete for base and sub-base and tests has shown that even reinforced concrete could be made from them. But the construction industry is extremely reluctant to accept it.

Construction aggregate, or simply "aggregate", is a broad category of course to medium grained particulate material used in construction, including sand, gravel, crushed stone, slag, recycled concrete and geosynthetic aggregates. Aggregates are the most mined materials in the world.