The National Ready Mixed Concrete Association is recognizing 975 of the nearly 1,500 producer member plants entered into the 2019 Excellence in Safety Awards Program. The record number of plants spans Gold (918 recipients), Silver (five) and Bronze (52) categories defined by Occupational Safety and Health Administration and U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics incident rate (IR) thresholds.
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PRODUCERS – JULY 2020
Valdosta Lowndes County Development Authority directors have approved an agreement under which Bates Precast Concrete, Inc. will invest up to $5 million in a new Lake Park Industrial Park office and production facility, increasing drainage and utility structure offerings from a present 6.4-acre Lake Park, Ga. site.
Read MoreTxDOT on board with GCP Verifi system for ASTM C94-grade loads
A new Texas Department of Transportation Special Provision Specification notes that mixer trucks deploying sensor-enabled slump adjustment equipment meet ASTM C 94, Standard Specification for Ready-Mixed Concrete requirements. Among current equipment options for ready mixed producers is GCP Applied Technologies’ Verifi automated water and chemical admixture dosing system. It utilizes a suite of on board sensors and hardware to monitor, measure and manage concrete in transit, and doses loads with GCP ITM750 superplasticizer from a 12-gal. tank.
Read MoreMcNeilus mixer truck building shifts to Oshkosh, London plants
Sources: McNeilus Truck and Manufacturing, Inc., Dodge Center, Minn.; CP staff
McNeilus has confirmed plans for a phased, second half move of concrete mixer truck building from its Minnesota flagship to sister Oshkosh Corp. and London Machinery plants in Wisconsin and Ontario.
Read MoreACI, PTI map Post-Tensioned Structural Concrete Code
Sources: American Concrete Institute, Post-Tensioning Institute, Farmington Hills, Mich.; CP staff
The American Concrete Institute and Post-Tensioning Institute have announced an expanded partnership, formalized through the new joint ACI-PTI Committee 320, Post-Tensioned Structural Concrete Code, in response to expressed industry need for building code requirements addressing the unique aspects of post-tensioned concrete design.
Read MoreSalt River poised to add 250K tons to Intermountain Class F ash supply chain
Sources: Salt River Materials Group, Phoenix; CP staff
Salt River Materials Group (SRMG) and electricity operator PacifiCorp have entered a Fly Ash Marketing Agreement covering Rocky Mountain Power’s Huntington plant in Utah, located about 150 miles southeast of Salt Lake City. It provides exclusive rights to process and market the facility’s ASTM C618 Class F fly ash, and becomes the ninth such agreement in an SRMG management and marketing portfolio spanning Utah, Arizona and New Mexico coal-fired generating stations.
Read MoreContech, Oshkosh veteran Rafi takes helm at Fabcon
Sources: Fabcon Precast, Savage, Minn.; CP staff
Four-plant, prestressed hollow core panel producer Fabcon has named Mike Rafi as chief executive officer. He succeeds Mike LeJeune, who transitions to chairman of the board after overseeing day-to-day operations for 20 years.
Read MoreTindall Utility Division plots $28 million greenfield plant
In conjunction with the South Carolina Department of Commerce, Tindall Corp. has outlined a $27.9 million investment for a new Utility Division production facility in Spartanburg, the producer’s Upstate home base.
Read MoreTindall schedules production of C-I-P, hollow core slab alternative
The Tindall Superior Lightweight All-Purpose Beam (T-SLAB) is presented as the first and only system of its kind—a precast solution affording superior performance and constructability over both cast-in-place and prestressed hollow core plank. Fabricated in up to 12-ft. widths, T-SLAB seizes on arch design principles by using super lightweight concrete to serve as blocks over which structural concrete is poured, leveraging the arch effect translationally for load distribution, while capitalizing on longitudinal prestressing for total span capability. Several slab thicknesses will be available to achieve optimal spans in the 30- to 45-ft. range, supporting typical commercial and residential floor loads.
Read MoreMartin Marietta QC techs inaugurate integrated Forney, Quadrel platform
Martin Marietta Materials Denver-area ready mixed operations are the premier users of a cloud-enabled materials and concrete cylinder data platform supported by the integration of Quadrel LLC quality control software and ForneyVault compressive strength testing machine technology.
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