ASGCO “Complete Conveyor Solutions” announced the latest addition to its line of Secondary Belt Cleaner products for bulk material-handling applications.
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State Association Leaders Look Ahead
What Will 2021 Look Like at The State Level? State Association Executives Have Plenty to Say About That. By Mark S. Kuhar
Read MoreHeidelbergCement AG Exploring Sale of U.S. Assets?
Dec. 22, 2020 – According to reports, HeidelbergCement AG is exploring the sale of U.S. assets as Chief Executive Officer Dominik von Achten seeks to divest peripheral businesses. Germany’s largest cement maker is reportedly working with Morgan Stanley on the sale of the operations in California. The unit could fetch an estimated $1.5 billion. HeidelbergCement’s advisers recently sent initial marketing documents…
Read MoreHousing Starts Flatten in November
Single-family starts flattened in November as builders struggled to meet demand, while overall housing starts increased 1.2% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.55 million units, according to a report from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Census Bureau.
Read MoreWater Resources Development Act of 2020 Passes
The Water Resources Development Act of 2020 (WRDA) was approved as part of the year-end omnibus and COVID-relief legislative package.
Read MoreKnife River to Explore Synthetic Aggregates
Knife River Corp. is investing in Blue Planet Systems Corp. to pursue a commercial means of creating and marketing synthetic limestone. The limestone would be produced using sequestered carbon dioxide.
Read More100 Years of the Mellott Company
One Of The Aggregates Industry’s Best Companies Has Released A Commemorative Book. By Mark S. Kuhar
Read MoreKenzen Addresses Worker Privacy in Safety Data Collection
As companies around the world rapidly adopt wearable industrial devices to improve worker safety and business productivity, the protection of personal information being collected is an ongoing concern. Protective equipment innovator Kenzen recently launched a physiological monitoring system to keep workers safe from heat, overexertion and illness, and debuted a new privacy policy for its system.
Read MoreNew Home Sales Pause Following Strong Summer Surge
Sales of newly built, single-family homes in September fell 3.5% to 959,000 from a downwardly revised August number, according to newly released data by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Census Bureau. Despite the monthly decline, the September rate is 32.1% higher than the September 2019 pace, and on a year-to-date basis, new home sales…
Read MoreConstruction Spending Ticks Up; Highways Dealt a Setback
The U.S. Census Bureau announced that construction spending during September 2020 was estimated at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $1,414.0 billion, 0.3% (±1.0%) above the revised August estimate of $1,410.4 billion. The September figure is 1.5% (±1.3%) above the September 2019 estimate of $1,393.3 billion.
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