Burnco has hired Tom Zais as CEO for the Burnco Group of companies. He will be responsible for overseeing all U.S. and Canadian operations. In the United States, Burnco supplies ready-mixed concrete and aggregate products for residential, municipal and commercial projects in the Denver metro and northern Colorado markets, with aggregates plants in Golden, Longmont, Greeley and Fort Lupton, Colo.
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Hanson Buys Arizona Parcel for Aggregates Operation
Hanson Aggregates, a subsidiary of Lehigh Hanson Inc., bought 1,425 acres of land west of Buckeye, Ariz., for $16.5 million, according to real estate database Vizzda. Trey Champie of Headquarters West was the broker for the deal, and the seller was Resource Land Holdings, a private equity firm based in Denver.
Read MoreRock Machinery Announces New Service Manager
Rock Machinery Co., LLC., a leading distributor of processing equipment and parts for the aggregate, recycle, and mining industries, recently hired Darrin Bush as the service manager covering northern Wisconsin and Minnesota.
Read MoreCanadian Group Seeks Quarry Rehabilitation Solutions
A group of Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, post-secondary academic researchers are teaming up to explore various new ways of environmentally restoring abandoned aggregate pits in northeastern Ontario over the next three years, according to Northern Ontario Business.
Read MorePERMITTING – JULY 2021
Canadian Gravel Pit Proposed According to the Comox Valley Record, the Ministry of Energy, Mines and Low Carbon Innovation spokesperson confirmed the ministry has a Mines Act permit application. The proposed operation would run for no longer than 10 years. A copy of the notice of work application shows the applicant as a numbered company, but the contact person listed…
Read MoreQuarry Academy Names 2020 Scholarship Winner
The Quarry Academy team just announced its 2020 scholarship winner: Alexandra Gregor, a mining engineering and management student from the South Dakota School of Mines. Gregor is originally from Sioux Falls, S.D. “I am grateful for this opportunity and am excited to see where this brings me in the future,” she said.
Read MoreDynatrol Level Detector for Plugged Chutes
Dynatrol DJ Level Detectors have proven successful as plugged chute detectors for most types of conveying. They are also ideal for high point level detection providing dependable operation in dusty environments as well as on vessels, storage bins or hoppers equipped with vibrators. For applications such as dust collection, sand, gravel, rock, crushed stone, ore, talc mine, crushed dolomite and…
Read MoreMcCloskey Unveils Impact Crusher
McCloskey International unveiled the I4C, the latest entry into McCloskey’s impact crusher line. In a class of its own, it brings the power and productivity of an 1,125-mm (44.3-in.) impactor to a compact footprint for maximum maneuverability. Taking the original impact crusher design and transforming it into a heavy-duty compact product that is even more flexible and productive, the new…
Read MoreGuest Editorial: Improving the Aggregate Industry Starts with Fixing Supply Chains
By Priyesh Ranjan Aggregates are quite literally the bedrock of U.S. infrastructure. In 2020 alone, the estimated U.S. output of construction aggregates produced and shipped for consumption was 2.43 billion metric tons. But despite a growing aggregate demand, there is one cog in the machine that’s preventing the industry from reaching its full potential: a broken supply chain network.
Read MoreThe Horses Are Out of the Barn
Well, the barn door has been kicked open, and the horses are out. After more than a year of COVID-19-driven inactivity, a lot is starting to happen. For openers, two major mergers rocked the aggregates industry, changing the landscape regionally and nationally. Vulcan Materials Co. and U.S. Concrete Inc. entered into a definitive merger agreement; and Martin Marietta Materials Inc.…
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