$446M Lafarge NA asset deal yields Eagle Materials Great Plains platform

Sources: Eagle Materials Inc., Dallas; Lafarge Group, Paris; CP staff

By Don Marsh

Eagle Materials is projecting a November or December closing on Lafarge North America properties in Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma: eight ready mixed concrete plants, two aggregate quarries plus a fly ash distribution business strategic to Kansas City; Sugar Creek, Mo., and Tulsa, Okla., cement mills; and six cement terminals in the four states. In the 12 months leading up to June 30, 2012, the operations logged $178 million in revenue.

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