Oct. 21, 2015 – It has been a momentous day for the folks who put on ConExpo-Con/Agg, as AEM officially launched ConExpo Latin America in Santiago, Chile. I am pleased to be here representing Rock Products and Mining Media International. The crowds poured through the gates and flooded the aisles of this first-time event, a response that pleased the show’s organizers very much, to…
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ConExpo Latin America
Oct. 19, 2015 – I will be blogging live this week from ConExpo Latin America, Santiago, Chile, where Mining Media International and Rock Products, as part of an exclusive partnership with AEM, is sponsoring an aggregates seminar for attendees. ConExpo Latin America will offer a number of high-quality training sessions, seminars, professional conferences and educational workshops. Speakers will be international experts from…
Read MoreExtraordinary Vulcan Profit Growth Expected
Oct. 15, 2015 – According to an article on USAToday.com, nine companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 index, including Vulcan Materials, are expected to post 70 percent or greater adjusted profit growth in the third quarter. Adjusted profit for the S&P 500 is expected to fall 5.3 percent. Legg Mason is expected to be the profit growth champ of the third quarter.…
Read MoreCat Will Restructure; Reduce Workforce
Sept. 29, 2015 – It is going to be tough medicine for Big Yellow. Caterpillar has announced significant restructuring and cost reduction actions that are expected to lower operating costs by about $1.5 billion annually once fully implemented, according to the company. These steps will begin in late 2015 and reflect recent, current and expected market conditions. For 2015, the company’s…
Read MoreDoing Double Duty at Dealer Days
Sept. 23, 2015 – I am blogging live this week from KPI-JCI/Astec Mobile Screens’ Dealer Days in Yankton, S.D. The company debuted 10 new and/or improved crushing and screening products at the event, announced the launch of its new website, and revealed that its iconic mascot, Rocky the dinosaur, will be returning as a branding motif on all of its equipment.…
Read MoreLuck Says Contact Your Senators
Sept. 16, 2015 –NSSGA Chairman Charles S. Luck IV, recently asked each and every U.S. Senator to support S. 1140, a bipartisan bill that would require the Environmental Protection Agency to withdraw and re-propose their controversial Waters of the U.S. rule. This new regulation that went into effect in late August drastically expands the EPA’s jurisdiction over areas that do not…
Read MoreRemembering 9/11
Sept. 11, 2015 – Bells are tolling and tears are flowing as the nation marks a dark day in sorrowful yet hopeful ceremonies. Fourteen years ago, terrorists hijacked four passenger planes and rammed two into New York City’s World Trade Center and a third one into the Pentagon outside Washington. A fourth jetliner crash-landed on an empty field in Pennsylvania. Read…
Read MoreTake a Senator to Work Day
Aug. 28, 2015 – Maybe it should have been called “Take a Senator to Work Day.” In its ongoing push for congressional action on a multi-year surface transportation reauthorization, the North Carolina Aggregates Association helped organize a tour for Republican Sen. Thom Tillis. Martin Marietta hosted the tour at the Garner Quarry in Garner, N.C. Participants of the tour were able…
Read MoreBridges of Doom
August 18, 2015 – One month ago, an elevated section of Interstate 10 collapsed amid heavy rains in the California desert, injuring one driver, stranding many others and halting travel for thousands by cutting off both directions of the main corridor between Southern California and Arizona. Did you ever wonder how many more bridges out there are in line to fail?…
Read MoreMSHA Alert on Bins and Hoppers
August 10, 2015 – MSHA has issued a special alert on steel storage bins and hoppers. Steel storage bins can hold a large amount of material and if they fail, the consequences can be fatal, the agency said. From 2012 to 2014, there have been 5 reported failures in the U.S. mining industry. Bin failures are often preventable with periodic inspection and…
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