MDU Resources Group has closed on Sweetman Const. Co., an integrated ready mixed, aggregates and asphalt producer operating in the Sioux Falls, S.D., market as Concrete Materials Co. The company and its 260 employees join the North Central Region—Dakotas, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska—of MDU’s Knife River Corp. construction materials subsidiary.
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Amcon acquires Concrete Materials unit masonry plants
Source: TCC Materials, Mendota Heights, Minn.
A deal with Sweetman Construction Co., dba Concrete Materials, has netted TCC Materials’ Amcon Concrete Products business block plants in Harrisburg, S.D., and Worthington, Minn. They join a network of concrete masonry and hardscape unit plants in Medford, St. Cloud and St. Joseph, Minn., plus Rapid City, S.D.
Read MoreProposed ASTM C09 standard tackles mix material incompatibility
Sources: ASTM International, West Conshohocken, Pa.; CP staff
A working document under ASTM Committee C09 on Concrete and Concrete Aggregates—ASTM WK40615, Practice for Mixing and Comparing Performance of Concrete Materials Using Mini-Mix Mortar Mixtures—enables technologists to detect and address incompatibility issues arising in mix design development.
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