Gage Brothers projects a 2019 opening for an advanced, 210,000-sq.-ft. headquarters operation in Sioux Falls, S.D., where it was founded in 1915 and presently has precast/prestressed concrete production spread across 16 buildings on 30 acres, charter plot included.
Read MoreSources: CalStar Products, Caledonia, Wis.; CP staff
CalStar Products has begun delivering building and landscape units from a 100,000-sq.-ft., Columbus, Miss., operation—an ambitious satellite to a Racine, Wis., flagship plant opened in 2010. With dry- and wet-cast lines for brick, trim and paver products using proprietary binders and high fly ash content, the facility sits on 23 acres in the Golden Triangle Industrial Park.
Read MoreCanada’s second largest clay unit operator,Brampton Brick, anticipates an early-2014closing on the assets of concrete building andhardscape producer, Atlas Block, includinga Hillsdale, Ontario, flagship plant. The $12million–$14 million transaction is throughcourt-appointed receiver KPMG Inc., and allowsthe suitor to add concrete masonry capacity andtake advantage of cost-saving synergies by consolidatingproduction of similar items.
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