Source: Concrete Products Concrete Products’ Craig Yeack takes stock of the energy metrics and costs behind diesel fuel and battery electric power for ready mixed delivery in July’s column, “Are We Ready for Electric Concrete Trucks?” In the most comprehensive such examination to date for North American producers, he presents the comparison in terms of Btus, a common unit of measure for…
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Second Vulcan Materials deal nets SRM Concrete 93 Texas operations
Tennessee-based SRM Concrete LLC has become the Lone Star State’s largest ready mixed producer after closing on 82 plants and 11 volumetric mixer loading sites from Vulcan Materials Co., which inherited the bulk of the properties in its 2021 U.S. Concrete Inc. takeover. Last month’s transaction is the parties’ second of the year, which opened with SRM relieving Vulcan of…
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