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Integration-minded Essroc adds Crider & Shockey
Apr 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Cp Staff
Essroc Cement Corp., Nazareth, Pa., closed last month on Crider & Shockey Inc. and Toms Brook Inc., the ready mixed businesses of Winchester, Va.-based...
Virginia Ready Mixed on Radar
Apr 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Cp Staff
Essroc-Crider & Shockey is the fourth sizable transaction in Virginia ready mixed in less than two years. It follows Vulcan Materials' November 2007 acquisition...
NLRB unloads Longshoremen's claim to Cemex barge work
Apr 1, 2008 12:00 PM
National Labor Relations Board recently ruled that Operating Engineers Local 3-represented Cemex Construction Materials L.P. employees are entitled to...
SCC's Northern Flow
Apr 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Tom Kuennen
Self-consolidating concrete (SCC) suits cast-in-place bridge applications in northern-tier states such as Nebraska and South Dakota, according to research...
Arizona projects highlight pervious concrete inroads
Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM
Reflecting and reinforcing the growing awareness of pervious concrete benefits, including U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recognition as a best practice...
Graniterock jury delivers Teamsters crushing breach of contract verdict
Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By CP Staff
After a seven-day trial and testimony from more than 30 witnesses, a federal jury last month found that Teamsters Local 287 in San Jose, Calif., violated...
NRMCA develops quality award
Nov 1, 2006 12:00 PM
The National Ready Mixed Concrete Association Research, Engineering and Standards Committee will name up to three company recipients of its Excellence...
Standard bearer
Aug 1, 2006 12:00 PM, By Don Marsh
Environmental, safety, and aesthetic standards that have made Cemstone Products Co. a leader in ready mixed concrete and plant design abound at the company's...
Fuel management system drives down costs
Aug 1, 2006 12:00 PM
No matter how many plants a ready-mix company owns, each one has several types of vehicles constantly moving in, and out, and throughout the yard. Whether...
Tarmac expands on Florida's west coast
Jul 1, 2006 12:00 PM, BY CP STAFF
Tarmac America LLC, Deerfield Beach, Fla., has closed its third deal of 2006, acquiring Miami Valley Concrete of Nokomis, Fla. The early-June transaction...
Chandler of Virginia gains critical mass
Jul 1, 2006 12:00 PM, BY CP STAFF
Burlington, N.C.-based Chandler Concrete announced last month that its affiliate company, Chandler Concrete of Virginia, Inc., had closed on the operating...
Chinese strip 35 million-yd. dam's final forms
Jul 1, 2006 12:00 PM, BY CP STAFF
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...
Vertical integration
Jul 1, 2006 12:00 PM
Marking the 40th anniversary of the Federal Trade Commission's July 1966 public hearing to obtain guidance on the development of policy relative to vertical...
CRH Elevates upper ranks at Oldcastle
Jul 1, 2006 12:00 PM, BY CP STAFF
Dublin-based CRH Plc, parent company of Oldcastle's Materials Group (Washington, D.C.) and Products and Distribution Group (Atlanta) has announced executive...
Chip plant computes waffle slabs' structural, aesthetic advantages
Jul 1, 2006 12:00 PM
Specifications for the 200,000-sq.-ft. clean room component of Texas Instruments's new $3 billion semiconductor manufacturing facility in Richardson,...
Concrete homes ahead of International Residential Code wind-resistant curve
Jul 1, 2006 12:00 PM
Escalating demand for high-wind-resistant homes has more builders looking for resources on robust-construction practices. While industries with competing...
New study identifies physical mechanism of salt scaling: Cracking under stress
Jul 1, 2006 12:00 PM, BY MARTHA BLASTOW
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...
Pervious pavements soak up attention
Jul 1, 2006 12:00 PM
With the advent of green building and more immediate prospect of summer rains has come a heightened interest in pervious concrete pavements. Two recent...
Vision for future
Mar 1, 2004 12:00 PM, by Tom Kuennen
The new chairman of the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association looks to the industry's future through Vision 2010. The program was launched last year...
Automated dispensing systems send colored concrete sales over the rainbow
Mar 1, 2004 12:00 PM, by Steven Prokopy
Mirroring the 1980s emergence of fibrous concrete for shrinkage crack control in slabs, the decorative flatwork market has fueled demand for integrally...
National Ready Mixed jumps @ AOL campaign opportunity
Mar 1, 2004 12:00 PM, by CP Staff
In late January, National Ready Mixed Concrete of Encino, Calif., dispatched eight trucks to the Irwindale Speedway for a customer that had something...
Holcim seeks to consolidate Apasco S.A. stake
Mar 1, 2004 12:00 PM, by CP Staff
Swiss cement giant Holcim Ltd. has offered to buy out minority shareholders in Holcim Apasco S.A. de C.V., Mexico's second largest cement (six mills,...
Driver of the Year Awards
Mar 1, 2004 12:00 PM
The National Ready Mixed Concrete Association (NRMCA) Mixer Truck Driver of the Year award program recognizes outstanding performers in a highly demanding...
2003 Concrete Pavement Awards--Decorative and durable designs, Cast-in-place
Feb 1, 2004 12:00 PM
Winning entries for the Cast-in-Place category of the 2003 Concrete Pavement Awards Decorative and Durable Designs competition are featured this month,...
Going green
Feb 1, 2004 12:00 PM
Rempel Bros. Concrete Ltd.'s green-and-white trucks are a familiar site in the British Columbian lower mainland area of North Vancouver, on the edge of...
ICF's rapid deployment, strength commands salute
Feb 1, 2004 12:00 PM, By Steven Prokopy
When architect William Murray took on the task of designing the Florida Armed Forces Reserve Center a 140,000-sq.-ft. multi-use facility located in Pinellas...
Land drab?
Feb 1, 2004 12:00 PM, By Don Marsh
Reclaiming of urban areas across the country has city planners acknowledging what cement, aggregate and concrete operators have long known: Regardless...
Stars align for above-grade residential wall stakeholders
Jan 1, 2004 12:00 PM, By Don Marsh
As insulating concrete forms coast toward mainstream building, foam fabricators, block/panel distributors, ready mixed producers and other ICF method...
CA consolidates batch panel technology
Jan 1, 2004 12:00 PM
Following recent enhancements to its dispatch platform, Command Alkon is preparing a formal unveiling for a new Windows-based system of batching controls...
Spirit of capitalism escapes Texans' assassination attempt
Dec 1, 2003 12:00 PM, by Don Marsh
Does the color of money differ from one credit-worthy customer to the next? If you have strong differences with a prospective customer's philosophy or...
