Unimin Specialty Minerals and its Tamms and Elco plants have been recognized for outstanding community involvement and support activities as well as safety performance by the Illinois Association of Aggregate Producers (IAAP).
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Lafarge Operations Honored for Technology Solutions
Lafarge North America won two Innovation awards from the Portland Cement Association (PCA). The Paulding Cement Plant, in Paulding, Ohio, won PCA’s 2014 Cement Industry Energy & Environment Award for Innovation, while the Cave in Rock Quarry, located in Cave in Rock, Ill., won PCA’s 2014 Safety Innovation Award.
Read MoreGood Earth Wear Parts Streamline Production of Rock Dust
Freedom Materials Resources, a division of The Freedom Companies, produces coal mine rock dust at its West Frankfort, Ill., facility. The coal mine rock dust is utilized as a wet soil stabilizer for underground mining operations throughout the Midwest.
Read MoreMSHA Conducts Impact Inspection at Illinois Quarry
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) announced that federal inspectors issued 149 citations and 16 orders during special impact inspections conducted at nine coal mines and four metal/nonmetal mines last month.
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