Sept. 10, 2024 – Today at the AggNexus Digital Innovation Conference – co-sponsored by Rock Products’ parent company SEMCO Publishing – held at Thompson Conference Center at the University of Texas at Austin, the session “Buying or Creating Your Software? Challenges and Opportunities in Digitalization for the Industry,” was livestreamed to an international audience. Panelists for the session included:
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Permitting Update: South Carolina
A public hearing by South Carolina Department of Environmental Services on a proposed rock quarry for southwestern Edgefield County was a quick affair the night of Aug. 8 — only one person spoke, in favor of the operation, while seven others who’d initially signed up to speak forfeited their time with murmurs of concurrence with the one speaker. Luck Stone…
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Southwestern Edgefield County, not far from North Augusta, S.C., could gain a 600,000-ton-a-year crushed stone operation if state permitting comes through and the conditional use permit granted for what’s proposed as a 70-year investment by Luck Stone. The Virginia-based subsidiary of Luck Companies already has operations in Chester, Kershaw, Fairfield and Spartanburg counties. About two years’ surveying of the area…
Read MoreGreenfield Plant, Growing Market
Luck Stone Digs In At Its New Fairfield Operation In South Carolina, A Greenfield Start-Up Poised To Serve Local Growth And Development. By Mark S. Kuhar The area north of Columbia, S.C., is growing. With increasing population, businesses relocating to the region and a major university to the South, there will be rising infrastructure needs for the foreseeable future. Luck…
Read MoreThe Gift of Giving
Luck Companies Celebrates Its Centennial By Empowering Associates To Contribute To The Charity Of Their Choice. By Therese Dunphy In 2023, Luck Companies marked 100 years in business by reflecting on its core values and traditions and celebrating them throughout a year-long campaign that included 34 events. From the time it was founded by Charles Luck Jr., Luck has been…
Read MoreLuck Stone’s Atlanta Site Invests in New Sand Wash System
Luck Stone has invested in a 110-tph sand wash system to replace its sand screw equipment.
Read MoreCDE to Host EvoWash Webinar
On Nov. 29, at 11:00 a.m. ET, CDE will host a live webinar with a virtual tour of its EvoWash Sand Classifying & Dewatering System. During the tour, its experts will explain how this hydro-cyclone technology is helping customers including Luck Stone, Wheatcraft Materials and Lone Star Aggregates (to name a few) enjoy increased accuracy of separation, increased dewatering efficiency…
Read MoreLuck Stone On Tour
Oct. 2 2023 – According to the latest Georgia Construction Aggregate Association report from Executive Director Jeff Wansley, Luck Stone hosted a quarry tour at its Atlanta-Stephens Plant on Sept. 21. Among those attending were Councilman Matt Westmoreland and Councilman Amir Farokhi; Michael Smith, senior deputy general manager of Hartsfield Jackson Airport; and Atlanta City Council staffers David Johnson and Jared…
Read MoreVirginia Quarries Honored for Safety
The Virginia Department of Energy and the Virginia Transportation and Construction Alliance annually award mines and miners for ensuring a safe work environment for the Commonwealth’s miners. The top eight mines awarded for their safety records were: • BWI Abingdon LLC – BWI Abingdon – 12 employees – 23,434 hours.• Salem Stone Corp.– Acco Stone Co. – 17 employees –…
Read MoreFIRST LOOK – May 2023
TOP NEWS Caterpillar, Luck Stone in Autonomous Collaboration Luck Stone’s and Caterpillar’s partnership on autonomous hauling goes back at least to the 1990s, Charlie Luck, president and CEO of Luck Companies, told Rock Products. Heidelberg Materials Acquires RMS GravelHeidelberg Materials announced that it has acquired all operating assets and reserves of RMS Gravel Inc., a producer of high-quality sand and gravel…
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