By Mark S. Kuhar The dispatch office is the heart of every materials supplier. Their job is fast-paced, involves long hours, and several phone calls throughout the entire day trying to make on-time deliveries and maintaining high levels of production. Figuring out complex scheduling, working long hours, dealing with demanding clients – it’s a tough job. Not just anybody can…
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Proactive Leaders Treat Their Employees as Customers
Your Employees Are The Customers Of Your Management And Leadership Skills. By Steve Schumacher In this current atmosphere of mass resignations, people seeking more flexibility in jobs and difficulty filling positions, leaders are looking for techniques that keep employees motivated, productive, and willing to stay with the company. This has always been true, but the need for those techniques is…
Read MoreOrica Reduces Environmental Impact Of Blasting
Orica has successfully formulated the Fortis Protect range of bulk explosives that will minimize nitrate leaching risk arising from blasting operations, according to the company. Nitrate in mines’ effluent has the potential to cause long-term environmental damage due to prolonged periods of nitrates being washed out from historical waste dumps. In particular, mines which operate in environmentally sensitive aquatic conditions…
Read MorePACA Holds Educational Sessions, Tour at Rohrer’s Quarry
The Pennsylvania Aggregates and Concrete Association (PACA), Pennsylvania’s leading voice for the crushed stone, ready mixed concrete, sand and gravel, and cement industries, offered educational sessions and a tour on Sept. 14 at PACA member Rohrer’s Quarry in Lititz. In addition to the quarry tour, attendees heard presentations about: Managing a Multi-Generational Workforce led by Rick Munson of Paramount Business…
Read MoreMSHA Launches Silica Initiative
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) has launched a new enforcement initiative to “better protect the nation’s miners from health hazards resulting from repeated overexposure to respirable crystalline silica.” MSHA said that silica dust affects thousands of miners each year and, without adequate protection, miners face risks of serious illnesses, many of which can be…
Read MorePermian Frackers Blame Supply Chain Bottlenecks For Stymied Growth
Rising rig counts, record forecast production from the Delaware Basin, and another forecast for record production for the whole Permian are just some of the latest news from the star U.S. shale play. And yet this production growth is much slower than it should have been and is likely to remain too slow, according to Irinia Slav, writing for oilprice.com.
Read MoreLiuGong North America Reveals LiuGong Finance
LiuGong North America announced a new private label program to become a one-stop shop for equipment and financing. The new LiuGong Finance program will serve customers and dealers with a multitude of benefits, the company stated. “As we continue to help support, grow and develop our customers and dealer network, we’re delighted to introduce LiuGong Finance,” said LiuGong North America…
Read MoreCRH’s Americas Materials Division Solid Through Three Quarters
CRH plc issued a company update for Jan. 1 to Sept. 30. Cumulative nine-month sales to the end of September amounted to $22.8 billion, an increase of 11% compared with the corresponding period in 2020 and 7% ahead on a like-for-like basis. First-half growth moderated in the third quarter as easing pandemic related restrictions in the third quarter of 2020…
Read MoreMake Your Workplace Happier
Studies Generally Show Happy Workplaces Have Higher Productivity And Employee Engagement. By Steve Schumacher If there ever is a place that can influence happiness in large numbers of people, it is the workplace. Most of us have a connection with our jobs that can influence our moods both on and off the job. Even more specifically, the boss has a…
Read MoreMAJOR Features FLEX-MAT Modular Screen Media
MAJOR is a global manufacturer of wire screens for the aggregate, mining and recycling industries. FLEX-MAT, the company’s line of distinctive lime-green high-vibration screens made with OPTIMUMWIRE lowers the cost of production per ton by dramatically increasing throughput and wear life while eliminating blinding and pegging, the company said. MAJOR masters wire quality, screen manufacturing and the screening process, and…
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