Cemex confirmed on Sept. 17 that discussions are under way potentially leading to the sale of $3.5 billion to $4.5 billion in U.S. ready mixed, manufactured concrete, aggregate and cement production assets to CRH
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Crh Closes Four Oldcastle Materials Bolt-On Deals Totaling $350 Million
CRH logged four late-summer transactions in the U.S., netting Oldcastle Materials Group about 500,000 yd. annual ready mixed output, plus aggregate and asphalt production and distribution assets
Read MoreMellott Heritage Division Joins Lafarge Mid-Atlantic
Lafarge NA closed earlier this month on the Heritage Division of H.B. Mellott Estate, a Warfordsburg, Pa., operator with three ready mixed plants and four quarries in western Maryland and southern Pennsylvania
Read MoreQuality Concrete Expands Knife River’s Texas Horizon
MDU Resources has absorbed Beaumont, Texas-based Quality Concrete & Materials Co., Ltd., running 10 ready mixed plants, two material distribution yards and three pug mills throughout southeast and central Texas
Read MoreHouse Hearing Probes Structurally Deficient Bridges
With an eye toward immediate, bipartisan action on a funding plan potentially based on a temporary additional five-cent federal motor fuel tax, U.S. House of Representatives Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Jim Oberstar (D-MN) held a full committee hearing to consider testimony on structurally deficient bridges within the National Highway System (NHS)
Read MoreStudy: Crushed Returned Concrete Yields Viable Aggregate
Results from tests at the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association’s College Park, Md., research lab support the use of crushed returned concrete as aggregate for new concrete mixes
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