May 2014 – Page 4 – Concrete Products

Aggregate Industries comes clean on best truck wash down practices

May 1, 2014 CP Staff

Aggregate Industries US is the installation of automated, drive-through mixer truck wash down equipment.

Augmenting a policy to keep vehicles in drive or forward gear at Aggregate Industries US is the installation of automated, drive-through mixer truck wash down equipment—a best management practice with safety, quality control and water conservation benefits. Aggregate Industries US began piloting water spray systems at four Minnesota plants in 2008. It enlisted a commercial vehicle wash equipment specialist, Key Solutions of Dassel, Minn., to tailor mixer-suited nozzle bars and racks, and oversee system engineering and installation.

A city hall design no one will fight

May 1, 2014 CP Staff

Bethlehem, Pa.-based Spillman Farmer Architects (SFA) and the City of Easton broke ground for the new three-story, 138,800-sq.-ft. Transportation Center Garage.

Mindful of the Lehigh Valley’s deep roots in portland cement milling, project principals did not need to labor over the material of choice to support and clad the new Easton City Hall and Transportation Center, rising in the fittingly named eastern Pennsylvania town of 27,000.

LafargeHolcim dovetails stepped up U.S., Canadian regulator cooperation

May 1, 2014 Don Marsh

Lafarge SA and Holcim Ltd. officials see financial benefits and integration possibilities in their proposed “merger of equals,” netting LafargeHolcim—present in 90 countries with $44 billion in sales; 470 million and 384 million tons of cement and aggregate shipments, respectively; plus, 90 million yd. of ready mixed production. The strategy they outlined in Zurich and Paris last month leads to a mid-2015 1:1 share exchange, the merged business operating under executives and directors drawn equally from both companies.