House OKs FAA Funding
The House approved by voice vote and sent to the Senate an extension of funding and taxing authority for federal aviation programs through Aug. 1. The existing extension was scheduled to expire July 3...
Study: Drywall Demand to Grow 8.4%
The Freedonia Group is forecasting that global demand for drywall will grow 8.4% per year through 2014 to 10.7 billion square meters, a significant improvement over the 2004-2009 rate of growth...
Blue Mountain Hits Safety Milestone
Profile Products’s Blue Mountain manufacturing plant employees celebrated 750,000 consecutive hours without a lost-time accident, a streak that began March 7, 2002...
Vulcan Calif. Mine Plans Approved
Vulcan Materials Company, Western Division was granted approval by the Azusa, Calif., city council for its revised conditional use permit, reclamation plan and development agreement for Azusa Rock...
NIOSH Accepting Hearing Award Entries
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and the National Hearing Conservation Association are accepting applications for the Safe-in-Sound Excellence in Hearing Loss Prevention Award...
Polaris Leases Calif. Aggregate Terminal
Polaris Minerals has entered into a lease with L.G. Everist for Berth D-44 in the Port of Long Beach, Calif., with an initial term of five years and three additional five-year extension options...
PCA: $4.7B Price Tag for EPA Proposal
In a June 28 webinar hosted by Cement Americas, Portland Cement Association’s Vice President-Regulatory Affairs Andrew O’Hare, CAE, and Chief Economist Edward Sullivan cited dire consequences for the cement industry of national emission standards for hazardous air pollutants (NESHAP) proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency...
Inspector General Memo Points to Gaps in Pattern of Violations
The Mine Safety and Health Administration responded to last week’s alert memorandum issued by the department’s Office of Inspector General, which highlights flaws in MSHA’s past implementation of its Pattern of Violations authority, including setting limits on the number of mines the agency targeted for potential POV because of resource limitations...
Granite Construction Awarded $106M Project in Utah
Granite Construction's Copper Hills Constructors joint-venture team has been awarded a $106 million construction management/general contractor contract by the Utah Department of Transportation...
ARTBA Urges Pay-as-You-Go System
On June 30, American Road & Transportation Builders Association testified before the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform...
Mine Safety Legislation Coming
House and Senate Democrats unveiled a mine safety reform bill on June 29. A House Education and Labor Committee hearing is likely to be scheduled after the July 4 recess, the National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association reports...
Lafarge Sells La. Sand and Gravel Site
VantaCore Partners acquired Lafarge North America's Clemons Aggregates site in Denham Springs, La. The operation has an estimated 7.5 million tons of...
Aggregate Production Continues Slide In First Quarter
An estimated 195 million metric tons of crushed stone were produced and shipped for consumption in the United States in the first quarter. This is a decrease...
Building Results Mixed
The multifamily housing market showed signs of returning to stability in the first quarter, according to the latest National Association of Homebuilder's...
Great Lakes Limestone Trade Up 27% In May
The Lake Carriers' Association reports that limestone shipments on the Great Lakes totaled 3.6 million net tons in May, an increase of 47.6% compared...
By The Numbers
YEAR-TO-DATEConstruction Contract Values Unadjusted Totals in Millions 5 Month 2010 5 Month 2009 % change Nonresidential Building $56,650 $67,500 -16...
Fred Weber Receives Safety Awards
Missouri's Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, Division of Labor Standards, Mine and Cave Safety and Health Section and the Southeast Missouri...
Teichert Aggregates Installs Wind Turbine
Teichert Aggregates installed a 1.5-megawatt wind turbine generator to deliver electricity on site at its sand and gravel operation just south of Tracy,...
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Please submit event information to Rock Products' editor, rmarkley@rockproducts.com. JULY 19-23 Economic Evaluation and Investment Decisions MethodsGolden,...
Lack Of Bill Leaves Bridges In Peril
If Congress and the president do not act later this year or in early 2011 on passage of a new, multi-year highway and transit authorization bill, hundreds...
MSHA To Revamp Patter Of Violation
On April 13, following the explosion at Upper Big Branch Mine, Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.), chairman of the committee on education and labor, asked...
Arra Money To Build Fire Stations
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said that more than $11.9 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds will be used...
Mine Safety Provisions in Financial Reform
The financial reform bill that emerged from a House-Senate conference committee meeting contains provisions that mining companies must file safety reports...
Supreme Court Issues Graniterock Ruling
On June 24, the U.S. Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Granite Rock Company v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters & Teamsters Local 287, confirming a jury verdict against Local 287 and refusing to dismiss the International Brotherhood of Teamsters from the case...
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