Holcim announced Nov. 20 a definitive agreement to purchase a significant minority stake in McKinney, Texas-based Lattimore Materials Co., L.P., a top ready mixed and aggregate producer in the Dallas-Ft. Worth metroplex
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Cemex Earmarks Tennessee Assets For Ready Mix Usa Joint Venture
With an eye toward reducing debt, Cemex is negotiating transfer or sale of concrete and aggregate assets valued upwards of $375 million to its joint venture with Ready Mix USA in Birmingham, Ala.
Read MoreOldcastle Bolts On U.S. Concrete’s Eastern Tennessee, Delaware Assets
U.S. Concrete has sold ready mixed and block operations in Knoxville, Tenn., and Wyoming, Del., to Oldcastle Materials Inc.
Read MoreGcc Set To Launch Second-Largest Colorado Cement Mill
More than four years after first announcing a Rocky Mountain market expansion, GCC Rio Grande (a subsidiary of Mexico’s Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua) plans a December 4 opening of a $200 million cement plant in Pueblo, Colo.
Read MoreFlorida Rock Closing Makes Vulcan Top-Five Ready Mixed Player
Sealing its new position as a top-five U.S. ready mixed producer, Vulcan Materials expects its $4.6 billion merger with Florida Rock to close the week of Nov. 12, nearly nine months to the date since a February takeover announcement
Read MoreIndustry Carries Concrete Torch At 2007 Greenbuild
Ensuring delivery of a strong environmental message and demonstration of how concrete building and pavement apply to the USGBC’s widely embraced LEED rating system, a contingent of national material and product operators and five trade groups participated in the 2007 Greenbuild International Conference and Expo, Nov. 7-9 in Chicago
Read MoreIndustry Carries Concrete Torch At 2007 Greenbuild
Ensuring delivery of a strong environmental message and demonstration of how concrete building and pavement apply to the USGBC’s widely embraced LEED rating system, a contingent of national material and product operators and five trade groups participated in the 2007 Greenbuild International Conference and Expo, Nov. 7-9 in Chicago
Read MoreIndustry Carries Concrete Torch At 2007 Greenbuild
Ensuring delivery of a strong environmental message and demonstration of how concrete building and pavement apply to the USGBC’s widely embraced LEED rating system, a contingent of national material and product operators and five trade groups participated in the 2007 Greenbuild International Conference and Expo, Nov. 7-9 in Chicago
Read MoreAggregate Industries Enters Carbon Offset Program, Joins Epa Climate Leaders
Against a 2007 Greenbuild Expo backdrop, Aggregate Industries announced its Cool Climate Concrete and Environmental Protection Agency’s Climate Leaders program participation
Read MoreIrs Validates $278/Mixer Truck Pto Fuel Tax Credit
A much-anticipated Internal Revenue Service (IRS) report on Power Take-Off (PTO) fuel use required by SAFETEA-LU has been completed and delivered to Congress
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