TOP NEWS Deficient Roads, Bridges Cost New Jersey Roads and bridges that are deficient, congested or lacking desirable safety features cost New Jersey motorists a total of $11.8 billion statewide annually. Construction Starts Rose 7 Percent in 2014 For 2014 as a whole, total construction starts climbed 7 percent to $575.3 billion, according to Dodge Data & Analytics. This continues…
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First Look – January 2015
Luck Stone Receives Award Luck Stone received a special achievement in GIS award acknowledging leadership, vision, hard work and the innovative use of ESRI’s GIS Technology. Eagle Materials Appoints Haack He joins Eagle from Halliburton Energy Services where he enjoyed a 17-year career with successively important operating positions. James Retires Vulcan Materials Co.’s Donald M. James, executive chairman of the…
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TOP NEWS AEM, Rock Products Team Up for Conference The educational program at CONEXPO Latin America 2015 will feature a new one-day aggregates conference organized by Rock Products and Mining Media International. 60 Minutes Reports on Infrastructure CBS News program 60 Minutes illustrated in the gravest terms the dire conditions of America’s roads and bridges – and indicted congressional inaction…
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TOP NEWS Martin Marietta Makes Big Gains Martin Marietta Materials Inc. reported its results for the third quarter ended Sept. 30, 2014, with a healthy increase in sales and profitability. Labor Secretary Holds Aggregates Industry Roundtable U.S. Labor Secretary Thomas E. Perez invited a select group of aggregates executives for a frank dialogue on the key issues facing the industry.…
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Vulcan Reports Sales Jump Vulcan Materials Co. announced results for the second quarter ending June 30. Net sales increased $60 million, or 9 percent, and gross profit increased $42 million, or 32 percent, compared with the prior year. CRH/Oldcastle On the GrowIrish building materials group CRH plc, which owns Oldcastle in the United States, said its earnings increased 27 percent…
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Hill Named CEO at Vulcan Materials Vulcan Materials Co. named J. Thomas Hill president and chief executive officer, succeeding Donald James, who will assume the role of executive chairman. Martin Marietta Reports Record SalesMartin Marietta Materials Inc. reported an aggregates product line volume increase of 12.7 percent in the second quarter. Wood Appointed NSSGA VPThe National Stone, Sand and Gravel…
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Senators Offer Tax PlanU.S. Senators Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) unveiled a bipartisan proposal to shore up the Highway Trust Fund by raising the federal motor fuels tax. DeFazio Introduces Transportation Bill The Repeal and Rebuild Act would create American jobs, fix the nation’s crumbling infrastructure, and break the transportation-funding impasse. Lehigh Hanson Recognized Company honored for the…
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Nichol Joins Rock ProductsMining Media International is pleased to announce that Kyle Nichol has joined the staff of Rock Products and C&D World magazines as a regional sales manager.
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Martin Marietta’s First QuarterMartin Marietta Materials reported first-quarter aggregates production volume up 8 percent.
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