Emerge Energy Services LP announced fourth quarter 2016 financial and operating results. The company reported net loss of $20.8 million, or $0.77 per diluted unit, for the three months ended Dec. 31, 2016.
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Oldcastle Buys Mulzer Crushed Stone
Tell City, Ind.-based Mulzer Crushed Stone has been purchased by Oldcastle Materials. Oldcastle also concluded several smaller stone, aggregate and asphalt transactions in Connecticut, Minnesota, Washington and Montreal that complement the company’s South, North, Central and West Divisions, along with CRH Canada.
Read MoreGeorgia Construction Aggregate Association Names New Board Members
The Georgia Construction Aggregate Association is proud to announce the addition of three new members to its board of directors and the naming of Travis Miller of Blue Grass Materials as president of the board. Representing Georgia’s aggregate industry producers, these individuals will assist the association in its mission to serve as the leading voice for the aggregates industry in…
Read MoreCemex Open to Supply Raw Materials for Trump’s Wall
Cemex is open to providing quotes to supply the raw materials for President Donald Trump’s promised border wall, its chairman told the newspaper Reforma . Trump repeated in a speech to Congress his vow that he would soon start building a barrier along the nearly 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border to prevent illegal immigrants and drugs crossing north.
Read MoreJanuary Construction Spending Rises; Highways Fall
Construction spending during January 2017 was estimated at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $1,180.3 billion, 1.0 percent (±1.0 percent) below the revised December estimate of $1,192.2 billion, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Read MoreTRIP Sounds Alarms on Kentucky’s Roads and Bridges
Roads and bridges that are deteriorated, congested or lack some desirable safety features cost Kentucky motorists a total of $4 billion statewide annually – as much as $1,899 per driver in some urban areas – due to higher vehicle operating costs, traffic crashes and congestion-related delays, according to TRIP, a Washington, D.C.-based national transportation organization.
Read MoreConExpo-Con/Agg Showfloor Showcase
Here Are Some of the Companies You Will Find on the Exhibit Floor at This Year’s Show.
Read MoreHow Do You Rate Your Company’s Leadership Development Program?
Harvard Business Publishing Corporate Learning, developer of world-class leadership development solutions for global companies and organizations, announced the results of its State of Leadership Development Survey. The survey revealed that only 7 percent of organizations feel they have a best-in-class leadership development program.
Read MoreWelcome Back My Friends…
Every time I go to ConExpo-Con/Agg – and this is now my ninth show – the song “Karn Evil 9 (1st Impression Part 2)” by Emerson, Lake & Palmer starts playing in my head, with those distinctive lyrics: “Welcome back my friends, to the show that never ends, I’m so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside.”
Read MoreTrump Again Promises Infrastructure Spending
President Trump praised President Eisenhower for building the last “truly great” national infrastructure program in an address to a joint session of Congress. “The time has come for a new program of national rebuilding,” he said, and asked Congress to approve legislation that produces a $1 trillion investment in infrastructure, financed through public and private capital.
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