January 20, 2014 – Congratulations goes out to the Illinois Association of Aggregate Producers (IAAP). The association's Safety Committee announced to everyone working in the aggregates industry in Illinois that they have achieved another fatality free year.
January 13, 2014 – Thomas Heath, a columnist for the Washington Post, just wrote a great piece about Luck Stone.
January 3, 2014 - Aggregates is poised to dominate. Through 2017, worldwide sales of construction aggregates are forecast to expand 5.8 percent per year to 53.2 billion metric tons. These and other trends are presented in World Construction Aggregates, a new study from The Freedonia Group Inc., a Cleveland-based industry market research firm.
December 30, 2013 – As we end the year, Rock Products is very interested in getting your opinion about industry issues.
December 23, 2013 - The nonmetallic mineral products leading index increased 0.7 percent to 232.0 in November from a revised 230.5 in October. However, its 6-month smoothed growth rate remained at the revised 7.0 percent growth rate of October. The 6-month smoothed growth rate is a compound annual rate that measures the near-term trend.
Mark S. Kuhar, based in Ohio, is the editor of Rock Products, Cement Americas and Frac Sand Insider. After graduating from Ohio University, and working in industrial and public service jobs for several years, he began his editorial career in 1987 as an assistant editor on Pit & Quarry and Concrete magazines. Since taking over the helm of Rock Products, he has continued to develop new products to serve the aggregates industry, including the Crushing & Breaking Spec Guide, Frac Sand Insider e-newsletter, Frac Sand Insider Conference and Expo, the Rock Products Latin American Aggregates Seminar at ConExpo Latin America, The Aggregates Almanac and the International Cement Seminar. SEMCO Publishing, with Rock Products, Cement Americas, Concrete Products and The Asia Miner, is the market share-leading publisher of print advertising and digital content for the construction-materials industry.
