Source: National Ready Mixed Concrete Association, Alexandria, Va. The National Ready Mixed Concrete Association is accepting 2023 Commitment to Environmental Excellence Awards entries through July 21. The competition offers producers national recognition for outstanding contributions to protecting the environment and maintaining sound management practice in their operations. It salutes operators that have not only met, but surpassed governmental compliance measures…
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New York aggregate operator Thalle unveils Dakota Concrete
Source: Thalle Industries, Briarcliff Manor, N.Y. Thalle Industries has launched a ready mixed concrete business in Montrose, N.Y., expanding services to Lower Hudson Valley customers while strengthening its competitive position in a key market. “Dakota Concrete fits with what we do, and the operation is a natural extension of our business,” says Thalle CEO Glenn Pacchiana. “The concrete plant has…
Read MoreCement Roadstone’s Wall Street destiny
CRH Plc guidance on 2022 performance—to which Americas Materials Solutions and Building Solutions segments comfortably contributed—offers some of the most definitive U.S. and Canadian market aspirations we’ve heard from the company during its 45 years of mining aggregate, milling cement, bagging dry mix, fabricating precast, molding masonry and delivering ready mixed concrete or asphalt this side of the pond. The…
Read MoreInteroperability: The Digital Mindset
Application programming interfaces and the API ecosystem explained. What if you could reconfigure your business processes to be faster and less costly by easily offering new products and services from emerging providers … and offloading your non-core competencies to outside providers? What if, in the competitive market you are in, you could bind your customer to your products and services…
Read MoreOldcastle, Cemstone veteran pens consummate RM dispatch playbook
Source: CP staff Customer loyalty and profitability in a typical ready mixed concrete operation can turn on the performance of a small team with outsized influence on human capital and physical asset utilization, according to the just-published Making It Happen – Achieving Excellence in RMC Transportation & Customer Service. Author Jack Delperdang addresses a void in industry references for building an…
Read MoreOldcastle, Cemstone veteran pens definitive dispatch/customer service playbook
Success in a typical ready mixed concrete operation can turn on the performance of a small team with outsized influence on human capital and physical asset utilization, as well as customer loyalty and profitability. In Making It Happen – Achieving Excellence in RMC Transportation & Customer Service, Jack Delperdang seeks to fill a void in industry references for building an…
Read MoreOne-time estimator intern Lemon succeeds Graniterock chief Squeri
Sources: Graniterock, Watsonville, Calif.; CP staff Peter Lemon has taken the helm of northern California’s top independent aggregates, ready mixed concrete and road building operator. He replaces Graniterock President and CEO Tom Squeri, who has led the producer and contractor since 2012 and remains a director. “I am honored to continue build[ing] on our achievements of the past 123 years,”…
Read MoreHeidelberg Materials picks up where Lehigh Hanson left off
Sources: Heidelberg Materials, Irving, Texas; CP staff Consistent with a global rebranding its German parent company announced last fall, Lehigh Hanson Inc. enters 2023 as Heidelberg Materials, a new identity for the cement, aggregate and ready mixed concrete producer’s corporate office and core Lehigh Cement and Hanson Aggregates businesses. A majority of the company’s other subsidiaries in the U.S. and Canada…
Read MoreProducers – November 2022
Lehigh Hanson Inc. has acquired JEV Recycling Inc., which runs a major concrete and asphalt materials facility in Woodinville, Wash. The deal times with the addition of a similar operation in Redmond, Wash. at Cadman Inc., Lehigh Hanson’s Pacific Northwest franchise and a key Seattle market ready mixed and aggregates player. The new facility processes slab or structural rubble into…
Read MorePRODUCERS – June 2022
Holcim Ltd. has acquired Cajun Ready Mix Concrete, which leads the Baton Rouge, La. market with eight plants and 51-mixer truck fleet. The business is strategic to Lafarge ready mixed operations in New Orleans and becomes the latest bolt-on under Holcim’s Aggregates & Construction Materials U.S. umbrella. “This acquisition expands our footprint in the dynamic Baton Rouge market, confirming our…
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