Highways And Bridges Each Climbed 8 Percent, While Nonbuilding Construction Jumped 38 Percent. By Mark S. Kuhar
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Permitting – November 2014
New York Quarry Eyes Expansion According to the Post-Bulletin, a zoning change could lead to expanded sand and gravel quarry operations near a residential area in Cascade Township directly north of Rochester, N.Y., and some township residents aren’t happy about the rezoning. Milestone Minerals has 140 acres of land near 55th Street Northeast and U.S. Highway 63, and the company…
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Sales Interactions Are More Manageable If One Approaches Them As Two-Way Communication Processes. By Thomas J. Roach
Read MoreSending Employees To Workshops Is A Waste Of Money
Without Specific Objectives And Follow-Up, Training Dollars Go Down The Drain. By Steve Schumacher
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ReRock Materials Digs into Recycling and Develops an entirely New Profit Center. By Mark S. Kuhar Concrete products are manufactured to last almost forever. So why discard the sturdy material just because the useful life of a concrete building or highway has ended? Landfilling old concrete suddenly didn’t make sense to Terry McAfee and son David: They are on a…
Read MoreBuilding To Another Level
Source Energy Services Enlists Legacy Building Solutions To Construct Large Frac Sand Storage Facility By Mark S. Kuhar As frac sand becomes needed in even-greater quantities, larger and more sophisticated plants are being constructed to produce and store a high-quality silica-sand product. Source Energy Services (SES) is one of the fastest growing industrial sand suppliers in North America. The company’s…
Read MoreVulcan Materials Chooses SciQuest For Automation Solutions
SciQuest, a leading provider of cloud-based business automation solutions for spend management, announced that Vulcan Materials has selected the company to help with spend analysis and management. Using SciQuest’s Spend Radar solution, Vulcan Materials now has reporting visibility into spend categories related to their Accounts Payable, Purchase Order and PCard transactions. SciQuest’s Spend Radar allows customers, including Vulcan Materials, to…
Read MoreRockwell Touts Safe Torque Off Technology
A new safe torque off option within the Allen-Bradley PowerFlex 7000 medium-voltage drive from Rockwell Automation helps industrial manufacturers and equipment builders simplify their functional safety design and meet the demands of international safety standards. Safe torque off technology allows users to reliably remove power from the motor without removing power to the drive, enabling a faster re-start of the system after…
Read MoreAggregates Production Jumps in Third Quarter
An estimated 683 million metric tons (Mt) of total construction aggregates was produced and shipped for consumption in the United States in the third quarter of 2014, an increase of 9 percent compared with that of the third quarter of 2013. The estimated production for consumption in the first 9 months of 2014 was 1.64 billion metric tons (Gt), an…
Read MoreLooking Ahead to the 2015 AGG1 Show
The AGG1 Aggregates Academy & Expo focuses exclusively on the aggregates industry as its leading exposition and education resource. AGG1 features in-depth industry-focused educational programming and comprehensive exhibits that showcase the latest technologies and innovations in aggregates-related equipment, products and services. Dates and Location The next AGG1 will be held March 17-19, 2015, in Baltimore. AGG1 is held annually except in ConExpo-Con/Agg…
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