The 28th Ready Mixed Concrete Delivery Professional Driver of the Year program recognizes three industry veterans from a pool of outstanding team players. The National Ready Mixed Concrete Association Safety, Environmental and Operations Committee tasked a panel of judges to weigh nominees’ competence, driving skills, professionalism, safety records, and colleague or customer testimonials. The NRMCA Truck Mixer Manufacturers Bureau will…
Read MoreSources: Chaney Enterprises, Gambrills, Md.; CP staff Already one of the East Coast’s fastest growing concrete operators, Chaney Enterprises will nearly double its production footprint by acquiring Burlington, N.C.-based Chandler Concrete Co. Inc. The latter operates 44 ready mixed and three block plants, plus one building supply store in North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. They align with Chaney…
Read MoreSource: National Ready Mixed Concrete Association, Alexandria, Va. The National Ready Mixed Concrete Association has elected Nathan McKean as 2024 chairman, succeeding Adam Manatt of Iowa-based Manatt’s Inc. McKean is a strategic advisor to BMC Enterprises Inc., a St. Louis-based ready mixed, precast and aggregate producer where he served as chief executive officer for two decades, leading into the March…
Read MoreSources: National Ready Mixed Concrete Association, Alexandria, Va.; CP staff The National Ready Mixed Concrete Association has named Richard Fulda of North Dakota-based Dickinson Ready Mix as the 2024 Ready Mixed Concrete Delivery Professional Driver of the Year. A panel of industry judges selected him from a near record number of NRMCA producer member-nominated candidates. Judges recognize Fulda for his…
Read MoreCarbonBuilt ultra-low carbon concrete was recognized in the Circular Design, Materials and Sustainability Categories of the Fast Company Innovation by Design 2023 awards. The Los Angeles company’s core technology equips concrete producers to replace portland cement with a lower cost, low-carbon alternative, then capture and use carbon dioxide to produce blocks that have one quarter or less the embodied carbon…
Read MoreMaryland-based Chaney Enterprises has put an exclamation point in recent years’ Virginia market expansion with the acquisition of 10 ready mixed plants from Charlottesville’s Allied Concrete Co., a family-owned operator nearing 80 years in business. Allied Concrete President Ted Knight will continue to lead the plants, while his former colleagues retain namesake concrete block and Valley Building Supply businesses in…
Read MoreSources: Chaney Enterprises, Gambrills, Md.; CP staff Dovetailing expansion of its ready mixed concrete production footprint in points north, south and west, Maryland’s Chaney Enterprises has formed a namesake unit to oversee a dump truck and cement tanker fleet plus aggregate distribution assets. The latter include established Seaford and Waldorf terminals in Delaware and Maryland, plus the recently acquired Staunton…
Read MoreSources: Chaney Enterprises, Gambrills, Md.; CP staff Chaney Enterprises has put an exclamation point in recent years’ Virginia market expansion with the acquisition of 10 ready mixed plants from Charlottesville-based Allied Concrete Co., a family-owned operator nearing 80 years in business. Allied Concrete President Ted Knight will continue to lead the plants, while his former colleagues retain namesake concrete block…
Read MoreOne of the Mid-Atlantic region’s top independent ready mixed concrete and aggregate producers recently unveiled a line of sustainable, low carbon products under the Ever Concrete Series banner. Ever Concrete gives Chaney Enterprises customers an opportunity to consciously reduce the embodied carbon of their projects by selecting from a range of mixes that utilize less carbon-intensive ingredients, coupled with innovative…
Read MoreSources: Chaney Enterprises, Gambrills, Md.; CP staff One of the Mid-Atlantic region’s top independent ready mixed concrete and aggregate producers recently unveiled a line of sustainable, low carbon products under the Ever Concrete Series banner. Ever Concrete gives Chaney Enterprises customers an opportunity to consciously reduce the embodied carbon of their projects by selecting from a range of mixes that…
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