May Construction Starts Hold Steady
At a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $557.8 billion, new construction starts in May were essentially unchanged from April, according to McGraw-Hill...
Congress Helps Cemex Settle California Battle
A decade-long legal wrangle over a California aggregates project appears closer to resolution, thanks to a rare agreement among the battling parties. But...
Flexco Expands Its Grand Rapids Plant
Flexco has expanded its Grand Rapids, Mich., facility to accommodate new products and enhance customer service. Flexco Grand Rapids, previously known...
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Lafarge Acquires TXI Louisiana Operations
Lafarge has completed the purchase of the southeastern Louisiana sand and gravel assets of Texas Industries Inc. (TXI). The acquisition consists of four sand and gravel pits, allowing Lafarge to enter the southeastern Louisiana aggregates market....
Lafarge Wins EPA Award
Lafarge’s Aggregates SE business unit, based in Douglasville, Georgia, has been named one of only four winners nationwide of the 2008 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s National Environmental Performance Track award for “environmental achievements above and beyond legal requirements,” and the only winner in the Small Facility award category....
FAA FUNDING FIX STALLED
The Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization remains uncertain, in part due to highway funding issues. Transportation infrastructure advocates...
VEYANCE BOOSTS PRICES, BLAMES ENERGY COSTS
To help offset rapidly escalating raw material, energy and freight costs, Veyance Technologies, the manufacturer and marketer of Goodyear Engineered Products,...
DREDGING SUPPLY WINS PRESIDENTIAL E AWARD
Dredging Supply Co., Reserve, La., recently received the Presidential Award for excellence in exporting. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez joined President...
MIDWEST MINERALS' SLOAN ELECTED NSSGA CHAIRMAN
Steve W. Sloan, president and CEO of Midwest Minerals Inc., Pittsburg, Kan., has been elected 2008 Chairman of the Board of the National Stone, Sand &...
NYS explosives rules may change
The New York State Dept. of Labor may enact legislation to change its present standards for explosives possession, handling, storage and transportation,...
MDU Resources Acquires Yarbrough's Material & Construction
MDU Resources Group has acquired Yarbrough's Dirt Pit, doing business as Yarbrough's Material & Construction, a leading aggregate supplier and ready-mixed concrete producer near Sour Lake, Texas, located approximately 25 miles west of Beaumont....
Vulcan completes Florida Rock divestitures
Vulcan Materials Co. has announced it has completed the divestitures required pursuant to a consent decree that was a condition of the Department of Justice’s clearance for Vulcan’s acquisition of Florida Rock Industries, which closed on Nov. 16, 2007. The divestitures were completed in a series of three independent transactions that involved both cash and the tax-deferred exchange of strategic assets. ...
Lafarge announces joint venture with Jamaica Pre-mix
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 Lafarge's latest efforts in North America to maintain and expand its infrastructure to offer increased value and service to meet growing customer needs....
EPA Money Available for Diesel Technology
EPA is announcing the availability of almost $50 million in grant funding to establish clean diesel projects aimed at reducing emissions from the nation's existing fleet of diesel engines. ...
NSSGA Names National Lime & Stone President
For 53 years, Ron Kruse has been an employee of National Lime & Stone Company, a member of industry associations and an advocate of the aggregates industry. For the past 50 years Ron has been a vital part of his community while raising and supporting his family....
Builder Confidence Drops Again
Builder confidence in the market for new single-family homes remained unchanged in March, according to the latest NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI), released today. The HMI held firm at 20, which is near its historic low of 18 set in December of 2007 (the series began in January of 1985)....
New York State Legislation on Explosives
The New York State Dept. of Labor is anticipating enacting legislation to change its present standards for explosives possession, handling, storage and transportation as outlined in Code Rule 39, last amended April l7, 1991....
I-95 Closure Illustrates National Concern
The closing of a stretch of Interstate 95 in Pennsylvania this week demonstrates once again the tremendous unmet transportation needs facing the country....
NSSGA Disappointed by Bush Budget
Leaders of the National Stone, Sand and Gravel Association today expressed disappointment that President Bush's FY '09 budget request proposes funding highways at $39.4 billion, almost $2 billion less than the funding level of $41.2 prescribed by the surface transportation law, the Safe Accountable Flexible Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU), for FY '09. ...
MSHA Approve Wireless Tracking Device
The U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration has issued its first official approval of a wireless-tracking system for underground mines. The approval was issued by MSHA's Approval and Certification Center to Venture Design Services Inc. for the MineTracer Miner Location Monitoring System. ...
Knife River Awarded O-DOT Project
Knife River Corp.’s Central Oregon and Southern Idaho Divisions recently teamed up to win the bid on an Oregon Department of Transportation (O-DOT) project worth $33.8 million. ...
California Sues EPA for Cleaner Air
The Bush administration and the Environmental Protection Agency are acid raining on California’s environmental parade to increase greenhouse gas limits. The agency has chosen to denie California’s request to adopt a national standard. The state is now suing....
ARTBA Opposes Expansion of Federal Wetlands Jurisdiction
Wizard DSL Galvanometer Allegedly has Potential Hazard
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