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Trimble acquires Actronic
Trimble announced Tuesday it has acquired New Zealand-based Actronic Holdings Limited, which provides weighing technology and payload information systems to construction, aggregates, mining and waste markets.
The acquisition adds weighing information to the information Trimble provides contractors by adding Actronic’s LOADRITE ... Read More...
Summit Materials acquires Westroc, purchases assets from Lafarge
Summit Materials has acquired Westroc and purchased certain aggregates, ready-mix concrete, asphalt and paving assets from Lafarge North America.
Summit acquired more than 100 million tons of mineral reserves through the transactions.
Summit Materials purchased two aggregates operations, three ready-mix concrete plants ... Read More...
LaFarge sells Wichita operations to Summit Materials
Lafarge North America plans to sell its aggregates, concrete and asphalt/paving operations located in Wichita, Kansas, to Summit Materials, the Wichita Business Journal reported.
A Lafarge spokesperson told the Wichita Business Journal that he agreement consists of Lafarge’s three aggregate quarries, ... Read More...
Weir Group PLC acquires R. Wales
The Weir Group PLC has purchased the R. Wales group of companies, which manufactures resistant linings.
The newly-acquired company is doing business as R. Wales, Specialty Rubber Products and is part of the Weir Minerals Division.
R. Wales has locations in British ... Read More...
McLanahan Corp. acquires Eagle Iron Works
On Jan. 23, Hollidaysburg, Pa.-based McLanahan Corp. announced that it had purchased the assets of Des Moines, Iowa-based Eagle Iron Works (EIW). EIW has served the aggregate industry since 1872, supplying a line of washing and beneficiation equipment that included ... Read More...
Vulcan sells assets, invests in others
Vulcan Materials Co. announced that it has sold assets of just under $150 million dollars.The transactions include the following:
The sale of reclaimed land in California;
A quarry in Virginia; and
A percentage of future production at four South Carolina quarries.
The South Carolina ... Read More...
Irving Materials buys Rock Industries quarries
Irving Materials, Inc. (IMI) purchased assets of Rock Industries from the Smith family of Peru, Ind., including the Peru and Plymouth aggregate quarries. According to IMI, it now has 18 aggregate mining operations across Indiana.
Rock Industries, a family-owned business, has ... Read More...
Bucyrus to buy Terex’s mining equipment division
On Dec. 21, 2009, Bucyrus International Inc., South Milwaukee, Wis., said it would buy Terex Corporation's mining equipment division for $1.3 billion in cash, adding complementary services to its business and broadening its geographic reach.
The Terex unit makes hydraulic excavators, ... Read More...
Silvi Group acquires New Jersey quarry
The Silvi Group announced the purchase of the 1,440-acre Belle Mead, N.J., quarry from the 3M Co., effective June 18, 2009. The quarry is located three miles north of Princeton, N.J.
Silvi will operate the Belle Mead Quarry under the name Gibraltar ... Read More...
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