Kids Rock!

Capital Aggregates Takes A Strategic Approach To School Partnerships With Its Operations. By Therese Dunphy A Missouri-based company is putting a new spin on its educational outreach program and getting positive feedback from its school partners. The program, Kids Rock, is run by Capital Aggregates, which includes Capital Materials, Capital Quarries and Capital Sand.  The company approaches the program in…

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Welcome to 2024

Happy New Year, and welcome to 2024. I hope this is a banner year for all of us and we see much success up ahead in the aggregates industry. Public highway, pavement and street construction is expected to grow by double digits for the second consecutive year, increasing 16% to $126 billion in 2024 from $108.6 billion in 2023, according…

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2024 Outlook/Forecast

Aggregates Industry Looks To Make Gains As Projects Move Forward. By Mark S. Kuhar and Josephine Patterson Since President Joe Biden signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) into law Nov. 15, 2021, states have committed federal funds to support more than 56,000 eligible transportation improvements in all 50 states during the last two years, spanning nearly every U.S.…

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The Year in Review

As the Grateful Dead sang, “What a long, strange trip it’s been.” 2023 has been a year of surprises, excitement, progress and unexpected developments. Going into the first part of the year, I would have bet my last two-dollar bill we would see increased aggregates production in 2023. While the final numbers are not in, it is pretty apparent final…

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Aggregates Production Falls Again in Third Quarter

An estimated 712 million metric tons (Mt) of total construction aggregates was sold or used in the United States in the third quarter of 2023, a decrease of 3% compared with that in the third quarter of 2022, according to Jason Christopher Willett, commodity specialist, National Minerals Information Center, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). This marks the fourth straight quarterly decrease…

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Where Are We and Where Are We Headed?

Tracking aggregates production in the United States is no small feat, so kudos to U.S. Geological Survey Commodity Specialist Jason Willett, who diligently compiles that data quarterly for all of us to peruse. Data for the second quarter and first half of the year is now available. An estimated 662 million metric tons of total construction aggregates was produced and…

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Top 100 Producers Lists and Aggregates Production

Top 100 Crushed Stone Producers ListThe U.S. Geological Survey Released Its New Top 100 List Based On 2021 Production Data. View here. Top 100 Sand and Gravel Producers ListThe U.S. Geological Survey Released Its New Top 100 List Based On 2021 Production Data. View here. Aggregates ProductionThe estimated U.S. output of construction aggregates produced and shipped for consumption in the…

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Let’s Talk Sand and Gravel

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) released its updated “Top 100 Producers of Construction Sand and Gravel in the United States” list. According to USGS Commodity Specialist Jason Christopher Willett, the top 10 leading U.S. construction sand and gravel producing companies in 2021 were, in descending order of tonnage: CRH Americas Materials Inc.; Vulcan Materials Co.; Martin Marietta Materials Inc.; Lehigh…

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USGS: Aggregates Production Flat in 2022

By Mark S. Kuhar At the start of 2022, it was highly anticipated that aggregates production would rise to about 2.80 billion metric tons (Gt) for the year. Well, final numbers are in and the estimated annual output of construction aggregates produced for consumption in 2022 was 2.44 Gt, unchanged from that of 2021, according to Jason Christopher Willett, commodity…

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