CRH has announced an agreement to acquire Dallas-based Pavestone Group LP, propelling the Oldcastle Architectural Products Group (APG) into a league of its own in building and landscape unit masonry shipments
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Integration-Minded Essroc Adds Crider & Shockey
Essroc closed earlier this month on Crider & Shockey Inc. and Toms Brook Inc., the ready mixed businesses of Winchester, Va.-based Shockey Cos.
Read MoreVirginia Rm Production Capacity Remains On Radar
Essroc-Crider & Shockey is the fourth sizable transaction in Virginia ready mixed in less than two years
Read MoreBelying Construction Slowdown, Conexpo-Con/Agg Draws 140,000-Plus
Breaking records for attendance, exhibit space, number of exhibiting companies and total education seminars, ConExpo-Con/Agg 2008 and the co-located IFPE 2008 brought members of the construction, construction materials and power transmission industries together for the once-every-three-years event at the Las Vegas Convention Center
Read MoreTop Economists Paint Guarded Outlook In Las Vegas Briefing
Record-breaking ConExpo-Con/Agg attendance seemed to run counter with forecasts delivered jointly on the show’s opening day by two of the construction industry’s premier economists
Read MoreIncrete Ushers Euco Into Decorative Concrete
Euclid Chemical has acquired Increte Systems, Odessa, Fla., adding decorative concrete prospects to its admixture and construction products core
Read MorePca: High Home Inventories To Hinder Building Through Mid-2009
Already grim residential building market prospects are expected to worsen in 2008 as high home inventories will cause housing starts to decline 25 percent from already depressed 2007 levels
Read MoreOsha Revises Cement Burn Guidance
A new OSHA document, “Preventing Skin Problems from Working with Portland Cement,” aims to educate employers and employees about effective ways to prevent skin-related injuries in the cement and concrete industries
Read MoreFeds Renew Silica Exposure Scrutiny
Revised guidance on skin protection against exposure to portland cement follows OSHA’s recently announced National Emphasis Program (NEP) to target worksites where employees are at risk for developing silicosis
Read MoreNlrb Unloads Longshoremen’s Claim To Cemex Barge Work
NLRB ruled late last month that Operating Engineers Local 3-represented Cemex Construction Materials L.P. employees are entitled to operate a bucket loader on an aggregate barge serving a San Francisco ready mixed plant, thus rejecting an International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10 jurisdictional claim
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