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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H&K Details Seasonal Closures

H&K Group Inc.’s (H&K’s) Materials Division is announcing official seasonal shutdown dates for all of its asphalt plant facilities.  H&K presently owns and/or operates 19 hot mix asphalt plant facilities located throughout Eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.  “Our state-of-the-art asphalt plants produce a wide range of mix designs, including: Superpave, Warm-Mix Asphalt, Red Top, Airport Mix, Custom Mix Designs…

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Soil Connect to Establish Digital Storefronts 

Soil Connect announced that it is rolling out a QuickStart program to partner with local construction material suppliers in the Indianapolis area – including quarries, concrete recycling facilities, landscape material suppliers, asphalt and concrete plants, and sand and gravel locations.   These digital storefronts provide local material suppliers with a means to sell their products directly to the platform’s growing…

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New Asphalt Plant At H&K’s Easton Quarry & Asphalt Facility

H&K Group Inc.’s Materials Division will open its newest and most innovative asphalt facility at Easton Quarry & Asphalt, Easton, Pa. The opening date coincides with prime asphalt paving season, and Easton Asphalt will soon be the Lehigh Valley Region’s go-to supplier for exceptional quality asphalt products, the company stated. This new asphalt plant at Easton Asphalt will replace an existing asphalt…

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Granite’s GARCO Lab Joins Green Business Network

Granite announced that GARCO’s San Jose Testing Laboratory recently joined the California Green Business Network. The testing facility functions as the base of operations for materials testing across Granite’s Coastal California Region. As part of the Green Business certification, the facility satisfied targets for energy efficiency, water conservation, procurement, and materials management.

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Proposed Operation in Alaska Denied

Quality Asphalt Paving (QAP) and parent company Colaska Inc., part of the international Colas Group, faced community opposition to a proposed aggregates operation. Plans submitted to the borough of Meadow Lakes, Alaska, called for the removal of up to 2 million cu. yd. of gravel from a 105-acre area of the parcel over a 20-year period, with a portable asphalt…

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PERMITTING – JUNE 2019

Cemex Wins Florida Expansion Case Cemex Construction Materials Florida has won the legal case that blocked its expansion into new mining territory west of Brooksville, Fla., according to the Tampa Bay Times. It comes after eight years of testimony by dozens of experts, a half dozen public meetings and hundreds of signed petitions opposing the expansion. Administrative law Judge Suzanne…

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Permitting – JULY 2016

Quarry Dodges Permit Revocation A Dane County, Wis., committee voted not to revoke a permit for a quarry that some believe is causing damage to nearby properties in the town of Deerfield, Wis. The county’s zoning and land regulation committee voted 3-2 against the revocation of a conditional use permit for Oak Park Quarry after postponing a vote several times…

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In-The-Field Dreams

AT R.E. PIERSON’S STONE YARD IN NEW JERSEY, W.S. TYLER CONDUCTED SPECIALIZED FIELD TESTS FOR A NUMBER OF AGGREGATES PRODUCERS. By Mark S. Kuhar This is the second in a new series of personal accounts called “Quarry Stories,” written by the editor of Rock Products, bringing you perspective and insight gleaned from more than 20 years of covering the equipment,…

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