Price Management

Rock Products interviews Ksenia Yemelyanova of Price Bee 
About Analytics, The Market, Customers And Price Strategies. By Mark S. Kuhar Price management has become necessary in our industry, especially after the last few years of high inflation. How did you come to specialize in this area and what particular roles have you had that qualify you as an expert in…

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Martin Marietta Acquires Colorado Producer

Martin Marietta Materials Inc. announced that it completed the acquisition of Albert Frei & Sons, Inc. (AFS), a leading aggregates producer in Colorado that has supplied the Metro Denver area with materials since 1962. The transaction, which closed on Jan. 12, provides more than 60 years of high-quality, hard rock reserves to better serve new and existing customers. Ward Nye,…

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Benchmark 2023: An Exclusive Survey

Rock Products’ Annual Survey On The Opinions, Concerns And Buying Intentions Of Producers Reveals What Is On The Industry’s Collective Mind. So who took the survey this year? More than 200 industry professionals contributed to the survey data. A typical survey respondent was an officer, executive, owner or partner. A production manager, foreman or technical superintendent was next. A further…

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Aggregates Industry Market Report

In This Quarterly Report, Provided Exclusively to Rock Products, Capstone Partners Offers Insight Into Merger and Acquisition Activity, Capital Markets Trends, Aggregate Production and Pricing. By Darin Good, Brian Krehbiel and Crista Gilmore Capstone Partners’ Building Products & Construction Services Team is pleased to share its Rock Products report. Consolidation among aggregates producers has continued to drive merger and acquisition (M&A) activity to-date as…

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Michigan Governor Signs Tax Exemption Bills

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) signed Senate Bill 97 and House Bill 4054 into law. The bills will lower costs for Michigan residents by amending the Use Tax Act to exempt from taxation the sale of property, used for production, manufacturing or recycling of aggregate by the property if the aggregate would be used as an ingredient or component part…

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The Aggregates Atlas

A Preview of the Powerful New Digital Tool brought to you by Rock Products and Burgex. Rock Products’ Aggregates Atlas is now an online digital tool for aggregates producers. The print version of this industry standard “maps” issue served our readers for more than 20 years, but we believed there was an opportunity to deliver a better product to the…

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USGS: Aggregates Production Flat in 2022

By Mark S. Kuhar At the start of 2022, it was highly anticipated that aggregates production would rise to about 2.80 billion metric tons (Gt) for the year. Well, final numbers are in and the estimated annual output of construction aggregates produced for consumption in 2022 was 2.44 Gt, unchanged from that of 2021, according to Jason Christopher Willett, commodity…

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Leading an Exhausted Workforce

The Last Few Years Have Tested Leaders In Ways They Never Imagined. By Steve Schumacher It is very common that people at all levels of organizations get tired, stressed, burnt out and frustrated. These things happen during start-ups, new product rollouts, peak business times and when systems and resources are stretched thin.  Leaders understand that most of these times are…

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TAC Insight/Fastweigh at ConExpo-Con/Agg 2023

Fast-Weigh is the industry’s first cloud-based system supporting all aspects of construction materials sales and transportation — dispatch, load-out, scale ticketing, billing, payments and delivery. Its platform brings aggregates producers, haulers, and contractors together under one roof with a modern, unified system that eliminates the need for servers, manual backups and other costly IT infrastructure.

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