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ASTM C09 names Vulcan Materials’ Graves as Mather Award recipient

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Sources: ASTM International, West Conshohocken, Pa.; CP staff

Vulcan Materials Corporate Manager of Technical Services Robin Graves has received the Katharine and Bryant Mather Award for advancing concrete technology through leadership roles in ASTM C09 Committee on Concrete and Concrete Aggregates. The award is named for longtime C09 member Bryant Mather, whose extended Vicksburg District tenure positioned him among the top cement and concrete authorities in the Army Corps of Engineers’ history.

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PRODUCERS – JUNE 2016

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Summit Materials Inc., Denver, has acquired Sierra Ready Mix, LLC, which serves the Las Vegas market from one sand & gravel pit and two concrete plants. The deal brings the suitor’s largest integrated materials and road-building business, Kilgore Companies, into a fourth state, Nevada, alongside Utah, Idaho and Wyoming.

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Investors note strong 2016 start for Martin Marietta, Vulcan Materials

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Sources: CP staff; Martin Marietta Materials, Raleigh, N.C.; Vulcan Materials Co., Birmingham, Ala.

In the wake of solid first quarter earnings and bullish shipment and pricing outlook for the remainder of 2016, Martin Marietta and Vulcan Materials saw their New York Stock Exchange-traded shares close the first week of May approaching record highs.

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PRODUCERS – MARCH 2016

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Vulcan Materials Co., Birmingham, Ala., has elevated two senior vice presidents to new posts: Stan Bass, SVP West, overseeing Western and Mountain West Divisions, to chief growth officer, responsible for leading business development, commercial excellence, and strategic growth initiatives; and, Michael Mills, SVP & general counsel, to chief administrative officer, charged with executive oversight of non-financial, administrative functions. Also, Brock Lodge has been promoted from Western Division vice president and general manager to president, and Jerry Perkins, from assistant general counsel to general counsel, maintaining the corporate secretary post.

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Vulcan Western mines premier Environmental Product Declaration for aggregates

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Vulcan Materials has published North America’s first self-declared Environmental Product Declaration for aggregates. The document provides data for four primarily concrete-grade fine and coarse aggregates, plus eight other grades best suited to base, drainage and asphalt from the producer’s Pleasanton, Calif., quarry.

 
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Vulcan Western chief Bass to spearhead business development, strategic growth

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Sources: Vulcan Materials Co., Birmingham, Ala.; CP staff

Vulcan Materials has elevated two senior vice presidents to new posts: Stan Bass, SVP West, overseeing Western and Mountain West Divisions, to chief growth officer, responsible for leading business development, commercial excellence, and strategic growth initiatives; and, Michael Mills, SVP & general counsel, to chief administrative officer, charged with executive oversight of non-financial, administrative functions.

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Vulcan Western Division mines premier Environmental Product Declaration for aggregates

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Sources: CP staff; Vulcan Materials Co., Birmingham, Ala.

Vulcan Materials has published North America’s first self-declared Environmental Product Declaration for aggregates. The document provides data for four primarily concrete-grade fine and coarse aggregates, plus eight other grades best suited to base, drainage and asphalt from the producer’s Pleasanton, Calif., quarry.

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PRODUCERS – JANUARY 2016

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The board of Colombia’s Cementos Argos has unanimously appointed Juan Esteban Calle as chief executive officer, effective April. His interpersonal skills and professional record of accomplishments, directors note, will help position Argos to continue its growth and expansion strategy, while strengthening organizational culture plus good environmental and social management practices.

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Portal affords Vulcan Materials customers account control from office to field

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Sources: Vulcan Materials Co., Birmingham, Ala.; CP staff

Launched just into the new year, MyVulcan.com is a service center for Vulcan Materials customers to dynamically search, view, print and download tickets and orders in full detail; access ordered and shipped quantities for timely information; and, conveniently search invoices, pay online and receive email notifications. CEO Tom Hill attributes the portal to the efforts of “a team of sales, IT and marketing leaders from across the organization to enhance the Vulcan experience, helping customers save time and money.”

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Vulcan CEO Hill named chairman as retiring James seals succession plan

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Sources: Vulcan Materials, Birmingham, Ala.; CP staff

Vulcan Materials Chairman Don James is retiring at year’s end, capping nearly two decades on the executive team and consummating a leadership transition to Tom Hill, who adds the chairman’s post 18 months after becoming president and chief executive officer.

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