EZA Recycling Solutions Wants Your Waste – And Will Pay You For It. By Mark S. Kuhar When EZA Recycling Solutions founder Ezekiel Setne was nine years old, he tagged along with his parents to return some of the family’s empty aluminum soda cans. It wasn’t long before he was raking in $10 per month by rounding up and bagging…
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‘This Jig Is Mohr Better’
Jigging Is Generally Described As A Multi-Phase Process That Optimizes Stratification Of Particles. Why On The Mohr Project Did Jigging Technology Prove Economically Successful? By Jared Mohr, Andrew Snoby, Mark Bothwell Apologies to our third-grade grammar teachers. This story began a long, long time ago, more than a decade ago. Mohr Sand Gravel & Construction LLC was founded by Jared…
Read MoreGreenfield Plant, Growing Market
Luck Stone Digs In At Its New Fairfield Operation In South Carolina, A Greenfield Start-Up Poised To Serve Local Growth And Development. By Mark S. Kuhar The area north of Columbia, S.C., is growing. With increasing population, businesses relocating to the region and a major university to the South, there will be rising infrastructure needs for the foreseeable future. Luck…
Read MoreHousing Stock Is Getting Older
A confluence of events around the housing market seems to portend that America’s shortfall in available homes will persist. Certainly, the higher interest rates of the past two years have made it harder to qualify for a mortgage, coupled with housing prices that just seem to continue to rise, even in the face of the headwinds of higher interest rates,…
Read MoreThe Record-Breaking Aggregates Industry
The publicly traded companies are out with their full-year 2023 financial reports and by all accounts it was a record-breaking year. The list goes on. While vibrant market conditions continue to drive performance for aggregates operations, there is no discounting the impact of the healthy price increases that companies are also reporting. Rock Products’ pricing guru, Barry Hudson of Price…
Read MoreFirst Look – March 2024
FIRST LOOK TOP NEWSVulcan MaterialsVulcan Materials Co. announced results for the quarter and year ended Dec. 31, 2023, reporting total revenues of $1.83 billion in the fourth quarter versus $1.73 billion in the fourth quarter of 2022; and $7.78 billion for full-year 2023 versus $7.32 billion for full-year 2022. Summit MaterialsSummit Materials Inc. announced results for the fourth quarter and…
Read MoreArcosa Reports Double-Digit Growth in 2023
Arcosa Inc, a provider of infrastructure-related products and solutions, announced results for the fourth quarter and full year ended Dec. 31, 2023. The company reported full-year free cash flow of $94 million, up 37%.
Read MoreSuperior Releases Heavy Duty Scalping Screen
Superior Industries advanced its lineup of Guardian Horizontal Screens with a new heavy duty scalping model that handles a maximum feed size of 18 in. (457 mm).
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