Richard Luck Named President of Luck Companies

Luck Companies, the nation’s largest family-owned and operated producer of aggregates, announced that Richard Luck has been named president. With this announcement, the over 100-year-old company enters its fourth generation of family leadership. “Throughout my life, many people, including my dad, have invested in my development, teaching me not just what we do but how we do it – with…

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Luck Stone Deploys Cat Autonomous Technology at Bull Run

Caterpillar Inc. has successfully demonstrated the fully autonomous operation of its Cat 777 off-highway truck. The debut of this latest model of Cat MineStar Command for hauling at Luck Stone’s Bull Run plant in Chantilly, Va., marks a significant milestone in Caterpillar’s objective to deliver an autonomous hauling solution for the quarry and aggregates sector, the company stated. This successful…

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News From South Carolina

According to the Post and Courier, a rock quarry planned for southwestern Edgefield County is a near certainty now that Luck Stone has received the necessary approvals from South Carolina Department of Environmental Services. Permit approvals came down Oct. 4 for the mining permit and air and water quality permits, opening up a 30-day appeals period. SCDES held a voluntary…

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AggNexus Extra: Young Executives Digitalization Panel Discussion

The inaugural AggNexus Digital Innovation Conference was a huge success, attended by almost 100 industry professionals Sept. 9-10 on the University of Texas, Austin campus, and sponsored by SEMCO Publishing, parent company of Rock Products. The event engaged representatives of technology-savvy multinational or independent cement, aggregate, concrete and asphalt producers plus allied software developers or service providers. A Young Executives Digitalization…

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AggNexus Livestream a Success

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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Permitting Update: South Carolina

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…

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Greenfield 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…

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The 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…

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