TOP NEWS Chaney Enterprises Now Offers Limestone Via Rail Chaney Enterprises announced it will now offer limestone to its customers transported by a new railway just completed at the company’s plant in Waldorf, Md. U.S. Concrete to Buy Polaris U.S. Concrete Inc. announced that it has entered into an arrangement agreement with Vancouver, Canada-based Polaris Materials Corp. pursuant to which…
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Oldcastle Buys Mulzer Crushed Stone
Tell City, Ind.-based Mulzer Crushed Stone has been purchased by Oldcastle Materials. Oldcastle also concluded several smaller stone, aggregate and asphalt transactions in Connecticut, Minnesota, Washington and Montreal that complement the company’s South, North, Central and West Divisions, along with CRH Canada.
Read MoreRock Products’ Aggregate Industry Market Report
In This Updated Analysis Prepared For Rock Products, Headwaters MB Looks At Fourth-Quarter 2015 Market Trends Such As Mergers, Stone Production And Pricing. By Brian Krehbiel
Read MoreOldcastle Parent Closes on Lafarge, Holcim Assets
CRH has closed on a portfolio of Lafarge S.A. and Holcim Ltd. cement, concrete and aggregate production assets in 10 countries across the Americas and Europe. At a $7.2 billion enterprise value, the transaction is among the largest to date involving publicly traded, global heavy building materials companies – trailing Cemex-Rinker and HeidelbergCement-Hanson ($15 billion–$16 billion; 2007) and Lafarge-Orascom ($12…
Read MoreOldcastle Parent Notes U.S. Rebound
Irish building materials group CRH plc, which owns Oldcastle in the United States, said its earnings increased 27 percent to 505 million euros in the first six months of the year.
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