U.S. Concrete Nears Financial Reorganization
A U.S. bankruptcy court’s granting of a request to confirm a plan of organization, converting $285 million in senior notes to equity shares, will likely enable U.S. Concrete to emerge from Chapter 11 proceedings by the end of August...
IIMA-NA Forms Kaolin Section
The Industrial Minerals Association—North America has formed a new kaolin section. The founding members of this section are Active Minerals, Imerys, Unimin and U.S. Silica...
Granite Construction Personnel Moves
After 14 years as Granite Construction's vice president and general counsel, Michael Futch, will retire Aug. 31...
Great Lakes Limestone up 27%
Shipments of limestone on the Great Lakes totaled 3,682,308 net tons in July, a decrease of 4.7% compared to June, but an increase of 27% compared to a year ago...
Harvard Prof.: Team Trumps Solo Leadership
As leaders struggle with growing pressures in today’s fast-paced workplace, a change is being made in the way leadership responsibilities are distributed within organizations...
Granite Const. Lands $85 Million Ariz. Highway Job
Granite Construction and Pulice Construction have been awarded an $85 million contract by the Arizona Department of Transportation to rehabilitate 10 miles of State Route 202L in Maricopa County...
EPA Sets Limits on Toxic Emissions from Cement Plants
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued its final rules on emissions of mercury, particle pollution and other pollutants from Portland cement manufacturing, the third-largest source of mercury air emissions in the United States...
Martin Marietta Volume up 9%
Martin Marietta Materials released the financial results for the second quarter and the six months that ended June 30...
Vulcan Reports Q2 Growth
Vulcan Materials reported that its aggregate shipments rose 6% during the second quarter compared with that period in 2009...
Recovery Act Reports in
The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board posted quarterly reports required from recipients of Recovery Act funding...
Highway Funding Donor States Now Extinct
With one exception, there are no donor states when it comes to the current distribution of federal highway formula funds, a Government Accountability Office report found...
Study: M&As do not Create Short-Term Value
Mergers and acquisitions represent important corporate activities that firms undertake for a variety of reasons, such as gaining access to new technology, know-how, patents, or brands; improving or sustaining their market power; or achieving economies of scale and scope...
Granite Construction Reports Q2 Loss
Granite Construction reported a net loss of $6.7 million for the second quarter compared with net income of $17.9 million for the second quarter 2009...
Heidelberg Q2 Sales Boosted by Stimulus Spending
While HeidelbergCement's development in the first quarter of 2010 was characterized by economic factors and the long period of wintry weather, demand for its building materials recovered significantly in the second quarter...
Lawyers Address Business Political Activity Law
Describing the past two years as a watershed period in areas of the law affecting corporate political activities, lobbying and elections, Washington-based attorneys Lee E. Goodman, a shareholder in LeClairRyan, and Chris Ashby, a partner in the firm, covered an array of related topics in a Lorman Education Services teleconference in July...
Vulcan Shifts Leadership
J. Thomas Hill, currently president of Vulcan's Southwest division, will assume the position of president, Florida Rock division, effective Sept. 1...
Transportation Earmark Database Running
A new database will allow the public to search for transportation projects submitted by any member of the House of Representatives in legislation originating in the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure in the 110th and 111th Congresses...
Researcher May Improve Mine Communication
Ryerson University researcher Xavier Fernando is developing technology to make reliable wireless communication possible in underground mines....
House Bill Rescinds Old Earmarks
House passed and sent to the Senate a bill to rescind $713.2 million of federal-aid highway contract authority for member-designated high-priority projects that have been on the books as long as 23 years...
TXI Offers $600 Million Senior Notes
Texas Industries has launched an offering for $600 million of senior notes due 2020...
Industry Reps Pitch for Infrastructure Spending
Bill Schneider, president and CEO of Knife River, testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure regarding the status of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009...
New-Home Sales Rebound from Record Low
Coming off an historic low in May, sales of newly built, single-family homes rose 23.6% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 330,000 units in June, according to U.S. Commerce Department data...
NFPA Offers Electrical Safety Course
Starting in September, the National Fire Protection Association, developer and publisher of NFPA 70E, Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace will offer a three-day seminar that concludes with an exam...
Lafarge Cement to Cut CO2 Emissions
Lafarge Canada's Nova Scotia cement plant will begin to develop a new type of blended cement that is expected to reduce annual greenhouse gas emissions by up to 76,000 tons by 2015...
Holcim Plant Wins Safety Awards
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