Month: July 2006

An early-June transaction saw Besser Co., Alpena, Mich., add to its concrete products plant offerings an automated pipe-handling system from Messman Service

Revisiting the Federal Trade Commission’s July 1966 hearings on vertical integration by cement companies (pages 30-40) is a step back to a point when

Specifications for the 200,000-sq.-ft. clean room component of Texas Instruments’s new $3 billion semiconductor manufacturing facility in Richardson,

With the advent of green building and more immediate prospect of summer rains has come a heightened interest in pervious concrete pavements. Two recent

Long after winter passes, its effects can be seen in cracked and deteriorating pavements across the Northern hemisphere. While more than half a century’s

Escalating demand for high-wind-resistant homes has more builders looking for resources on robust-construction practices. While industries with competing

After 13 years of preparation and construction, crews poured the final concrete on May 20 for the Three Gorges Dam project, which, upon completion, will

Dublin-based CRH Plc, parent company of Oldcastle’s Materials Group (Washington, D.C.) and Products and Distribution Group (Atlanta) has announced executive

Burlington, N.C.-based Chandler Concrete announced last month that its affiliate company, Chandler Concrete of Virginia, Inc., had closed on the operating