Sources: Outdoor Living Supply, Rochester, Minn.; CP staff Outdoor Living Supply has acquired Stone Garden in Wilmington, N.C., an independent distributor of natural and cultured stone, landscape, and hardscape supplies to the Cape Fear region. Nina Brown, who founded Stone Garden in 1999, will continue to lead an experienced team of employees, ensuring continuity for customers and supplier partners. “This…
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Sources: Outdoor Living Supply, Rochester, Minn. Outdoor Living Supply has strengthened its mid-Atlantic market presence with the acquisition of Norristown Brick, an independent masonry, landscape, and hardscape materials supplier serving commercial and residential accounts in the Montgomery County, Pa. area. The company was founded in 1986 with the goal of providing a comprehensive selection of quality hardscaping and masonry materials.…
Read MoreA new roadmap shows how European Union cement interests, with much customer assistance, can clip carbon dioxide output from 1990 levels by 80 percent at mid-century. The ambitious goal fits the European Cement Association, based in Brussels—ground zero of carbon trading schemes, voluntary initiatives and regulatory pursuits aimed at net CO2 emissions reduction across the business and consumer landscape. It hinges on improvements in fuel- and energy-intensive cement milling, coupled with promotion of the energy or fuel efficiency inherent in concrete building and transportation slabs or structures.
Read MoreSources: Freedonia Group, Cleveland; CP staff
With the tailwind of a home building rebound from low 2012 base levels, U.S. demand for landscaping products is projected to grow 6.9 percent per year through 2017, to $6.5 billion—a welcome projection for producers and suppliers who have seen a slow recovery from the 2007-2009 recession.
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