Victory for Vicdom

CDE Screening And Cyclone Technology Benefit Canadian Plant. By Mark S. Kuhar Vicdom Sand & Gravel has been supplying a wide variety of aggregate products to customers in Southern Ontario, Canada, since 1976 from its sand and gravel pits and limestone quarry in the Kawartha Lakes, Brock Township and Uxbridge areas.  With more than 1,000 acres of land licensed for…

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Pricing Do’s and Don’ts

How Much Time, Effort And Structured Thought Are You Placing On Pricing For A Healthy P&L Statement And, Eventually, A Healthy Balance Sheet? By Barry Hudson and Julia Georgi Operating a business in a way that creates shareholder value while staying focused on customers is a management challenge. On the one hand, the shareholders want the value of their investment…

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Water Management Technology

Here Are Three Companies Offering Equipment And  Technology To Help You Deal With Water Issues. Mark S. Kuhar While the Western United States is making headway against years-long drought conditions – recent rains in California have helped stem the tide – aggregates producers will face long-term issues with water management, not just on the West Coast but also in many…

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Dewatering is in the Details

Eagle+ Dewatering Screen Reduces Moisture Content In Precision Aggregate’s Concrete Sand. By Mark S. Kuhar Precision Aggregate, located in Mesquite, Nev., provides high-quality construction aggregate products to the Las Vegas and northwestern Arizona marketplaces. The company operates a permanent plant in Mesquite and three portable batch plants, and the products they make are used in the construction of roads, tunnels,…

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Tailings Management

Decanter Centrifuge Vs. Belt Press Vs. Filter Press: Which Is Best For Tailings Management? By Mark S. Kuhar All aggregate and mining operations with a wet-processing plant will produce a waste stream. This waste stream consists of tailings – the process water and fine solids, clay and other deleterious material removed during the washing process. Traditionally, these tailings are sent…

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Aggregate Mine Water Management

A Holistic And Smart Approach Works. Delta Sand & Gravel Co. Can Attest To That. By Ken Albaugh As part of Xylem’s turnkey solution, a slurry pump was installed to pump 3,000 gpm of water and fine material through 1,600 ft. of 12-in. SDR11 HDPE. This pump is robust and reliable, capable of pumping this harsh material with minimum maintenance…

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The Pulse (Third Quarter 2023 Edition)

By Allen-Villere Partners The Pulse and the AVP Pulse Index, are joint projects between mergers-and-acquisition advisors Allen-Villere Partners, and Rock Products. The Pulse appears quarterly in Rock Products, and the AVP Pulse Index appears monthly Almost all the publicly traded companies in the Construction Materials space are trading at or near their 52-week high, indicating an overwhelmingly positive outlook among investors for…

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Pricing is the New Black

It Is Time To Discuss A Critical And Yet Underestimated Part Of Price Management – The Quotation.  By Julia Georgi With Vulcan Materials Co., Martin Marietta Materials, Summit Materials and Heidelberg Materials reporting record price increases in the first quarter of 2023, price and revenue management is finally becoming mainstream in our industry. Those remarkable success stories of publicly traded…

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Closing the Loop

Heidelberg Materials North America Embraces Concrete Recycling As Part Of Its Comprehensive Sustainability Strategy. By Kristin Dispenza A shift toward a circular economy is underway. The emphasis of the circular model is on reusing materials, in contrast to the old linear model in which raw materials were extracted and products were made, only to become waste after a single application.…

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Buildex Banks on Wobbler Feeder, Roll Crushers

New Equipment Has Improved Efficiency But Also Yield At Its Dearborn, Mo., Plant. by Mark S. Kuhar Buildex, a Midwestern United States producer of expanded shale lightweight aggregate, has been producing its Haydite lightweight aggregate for more than 70 years. Buildex is a Hamm Inc. company, a division of Summit Materials. With a focus on quality, consistency and service to…

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