Testing of CarbonCure Technologies’ carbon dioxide injection method for cement optimization and imparting strength development in ready mixed concrete has proved compliant with American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials M194, Standard Specification for Chemical Admixtures for Concrete. Verification by SGS TEC Services provides state transportation agencies, engineers and contractors with confidence to integrate the CarbonCure process into their…
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Thomas, Cole County aces trade spots in National Mixer Driver Championship
Joey Melton, a 19-year delivery professional based at Thomas Concrete’s Anderson, S.C. plant, took the 2022 National Mixer Driver Championship. The early-October event was staged at the Gaylord Rockies Resort & Convention Center in Aurora, Colo. amid the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association’s ConcreteWorks Conference and Expo. Stepping up to the ConcreteWorks awards banquet podium, Melton saluted the 85 peers…
Read MoreNational Mixer Driver Championship: A much-warranted workforce salute
The National Ready Mixed Concrete Association Workforce Development Committee did not sugarcoat the results of its 2021 Mixer Driver Recruitment and Retention Survey. As we noted in a report last month, survey data shows that 28 of every 100 drivers hired in 2021 quit during the year. That placed ready mixed producers 3 points above the national resignation rate the…
Read MoreThomas, Cole County pros trade places atop National Mixer Driver Championship
Sources: National Ready Mixed Concrete Association, Alexandria, Va.; CP staff Joey Melton, a 19-year delivery professional based at Thomas Concrete’s Anderson, S.C. plant, took the 2022 National Mixer Driver Championship. The October 1-2 event was staged at the Gaylord Rockies Resort & Convention Center in Aurora, Colo. amid the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association’s ConcreteWorks Conference and Expo. Stepping up…
Read MoreArgos, CalPortland, Thomas lead NRMCA Quality Awards
Sources: National Ready Mixed Concrete Association, Silver Spring, Md.; CP staff
NRMCA will honor 20 producer members earning 2018 Excellence in Quality Awards during an October 1 luncheon capping the ConcreteWorks conference in National Harbor, Md. Recipients demonstrate how they abide and exceed quality management principles over a broad range of activities—from program commitment, materials and production facility management to product quality control and maintaining high customer satisfaction levels.
Read MorePRODUCERS – MAY 2018
Thomas Concrete recently acquired 21 Georgia ready mixed concrete production sites—eight active, the remaining idle or in standby mode—from Vulcan Materials Co. They strengthen the producer’s metro Atlanta presence and bring the U.S. footprint of Swedish parent company, Thomas Concrete Group AB, to 70 plants across Georgia and the Carolinas.
Read MoreThomas Concrete builds Southeast footprint in Vulcan RM plant deal
Sources: Thomas Concrete Group AB, Gothenburg, Sweden; CP staff
Thomas Concrete recently acquired 21 Georgia ready mixed concrete production sites—eight active, the remaining idle or in standby mode—from Vulcan Materials Co. They strengthen Thomas Concrete’s metro Atlanta presence and bring the U.S. footprint of its Swedish parent company to 70 plants across Georgia and the Carolinas.
Read MorePRODUCERS – FEBRUARY 2018
Cemex USA and Rinker Materials veteran Karl Watson Jr. has joined Denver-based Summit Materials as executive vice president and chief operating officer, succeeding Douglas Rauh. He arrives at the ready mixed, cement, aggregates and asphalt producer with 25-plus years in construction materials, most recently serving as president of Martin Marietta Materials’ Cement & Southwest Ready Mix business.
Read MoreAdmixture helps Thomas Concrete ‘shrink’ emergency bridge work schedule
The Georgia Department of Transportation approved the use of Premier Construction Products Group’s PREVent-C, a shrinkage-reducing and crack control admixture, among accelerated construction techniques on the Interstate 85 over Piedmont Road Bridges contract. Completed ahead of schedule, the six-week emergency project stemmed from a late-March fire that doomed twin structures carrying upwards of 250,000 vehicles daily.
Read MoreThomas Concrete adds three Carolinas ready mixed plants
Sources: Thomas Concrete Group, Gothenburg, Sweden; CP staff
Sweden’s Thomas Concrete has acquired three North Carolina and South Carolina ready mixed plants, strategic to the Myrtle Beach market. They join 64 other plants, across the Carolinas and Georgia, under a U.S. headquarters in Atlanta.
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