While some manufacturers face a shortage of skilled welders and long delays in filling open positions, Superior Industries in Morris, Minn., has deepened its pool of qualified workers with an uncommon – yet direct – approach to solving the problem. “You can’t just go and pull someone off the street and throw a gun in their hand and say weld…
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PB Materials Acquires Aggregates, Ready-Mix Assets in Texas
PB Materials Holdings Inc. (PBM), a regional producer of aggregates and ready-mix concrete in the Permian Basin, has completed the simultaneous acquisitions of substantially all of the assets of WUUD Aggregate LLC, ARM Trucking Limited Co. and Kermit Concrete Co.
Read MoreNSSGA Awards Barry K. Wendt Memorial Scholarship
The National Stone, Sand and Gravel Association’s (NSSGA) Manufacturers & Services (M&S) Division selected Gregory Meyer, a senior at Virginia Tech, as the recipient of the 2017 Barry K. Wendt Memorial Scholarship.
Read MoreAggregates Production Dips in Second Quarter
An estimated 606 million metric tons (Mt) of total construction aggregates was produced and shipped for consumption in the United States in the second quarter of 2017, a slight decrease compared with that of the second quarter of 2016, according to Jason Willett, crushed-stone commodity specialist for the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The estimated production for consumption in the first…
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