May 1, 2008
Articles
Growing With Power
Down in Milltown, Ind., a family operation is steadily producing more than 700,000 tons per year of high-quality limestone. Robertson Crushed Stone has...
Wet Scrubbing Coal Emissions With Limestone
Wet scrubbing is the dominant method for flue gas desulfurization (FGD), a technology that removes the sulfur dioxide in the emissions of power plants. ...
Getting the Word Out
Public concern about the state of the environment has risen to a high point, fueled in part by media coverage of climate change, energy use, air pollution...
David Carroll Explains Sustainability
Lafarge North America has always been a leader in the environmental arena. The company has many success stories of wildlife restoration, solid fuels programs...
Industry News
Miller Says Miner Bill Flawed
House Labor Committee Chairman George Miller (D-Calif.) is pointing to the conclusions of a Governmental Accountability Office report as evidence that...
RMC Touts Environmental Benefits of Concrete Mixes
The RMC Research & Education Foundation has released a new CD, Research in Support of Sustainable Development. The CD includes all of the foundation's...
Martin Marietta Buys Six Vulcan Quarries
Martin Marietta Materials Inc. has acquired six quarry locations in Georgia and Tennessee from Vulcan Materials Co. Martin Marietta reportedly paid $192...
Penn State To Present June Mine Safety Event
Penn State University and the Mine Safety and Health Administration will present Escape and Survive: A Miner's Town Hall Meeting on June 18 in Greensburg,...
Bill To Legislate Combustible Dusts
The U.S. House Education and Labor Committee recently passed legislation to help prevent combustible dust explosions. The Combustible Dust Explosion and...
Lafarge, Jamaica Form Joint Venture
Lafarge has signed an agreement with Jamaica Pre-Mix Ltd. to create a new joint venture based in Kingston, Jamaica. This strategic alliance is part of...
Pennsy Opens Driving Range for Employees
Pennsy Supply, Harrisburg, Pa., recently designed and built a driving range for its employees 18 to help improve the safe performance of the company's...
Construction Industry to Experience Wild Ride
Nonresidential construction will experience wide variance in demand, material costs and labor availability, according to a Construction Inflation Alert...
Case will Donate to National Gas Rodeo
Case Construction Equipment will provide construction equipment to the 14th National Gas Rodeo, to be held Sept. 19-20 in Fairview Heights, Ill. The rodeo...
Superior Selects Distributor in South
Superior Industries, a manufacturer of conveyor systems and components, has named McCourt & Sons Equipment Inc. its new equipment dealer for Louisiana...
Reviews and Updates
YEAR-TO-DATE Construction Contract Values Unadjusted Totals in Millions 3 Month 2008 3 Month 2007 % change Nonresidential Building $52,745 $51,067 +3...
Vulcan Plant Receives Iso-14001 Certification
Vulcan Materials Co., Western Div., has been recognized for voluntarily implementing an environmental management system at its Irwindale, Calif. facility,...
May Announcements
Please submit industry and company announcements to Rock Products' editor, nlorenzi@rockproducts.com. Jay Marak has been named corporate safety director...
Equipment Articles
Preventing Fan Failure
Mining and aggregate processing plants throughout the world rely on critical process fans for operation. So what happens when a fan rotor, with a wheel...
In Demand: Productivity, Comfort, Sustainability
During March 2008, major manufacturers of wheel loaders took the triennial opportunity to show the aggregate production, mining and heavy construction...
Products
IMPACT BEDS DRX Impact Beds from Flexco have been engineered to maximize belt protection, while offering ease of installation and maintenance. While other...
Columnists
Quarry Academy To Present New Ideas
During ConExpo 2008, Sandvik Mining and Construction and Dyno Nobel Inc. announced that they are renewing their cooperative agreement in North America....
Keep It Real: The Key To Employee Publications
While many companies are converting completely to electronic media for employee communication, it would be premature to say that print is dead. Even white-collar...
Post-Accident Prevention
Last month, I offered the concept that post-accident investigations are a critical step in accident prevention. I stressed that the analysis should be...
Discriminating Circumstances
Granite Rock Co. recently won its case, rebutting charges of illegal discrimination under Section 105(c) of the Mine Act by its former employee, Hubert...
Building Safety Committees
Safety and health committees exist at many mine sites, but are these committees giving the mine operator the most bang for the buck? Unless management,...
