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Housing Increases More than Offset by Falling Federal Spending
By George H. Reddin
STOCK REPORTSources: New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, and Wall Street Journal Market Watch. Currency conversion calculated on 5/3/13.
Merger and acquisition activity remains slow, but steady, as the outlook for many construction markets remains flat and disappointing. ... Read More...
Residential is up, but highways are status quo (at best)
By George H. Reddin
The first quarter of 2013 closed with slow, but steady, deal activity — the same pattern we’ve seen in recent years. The demand from buyers is as healthy as we have seen in years, and there remains ... Read More...
Lafarge’s Paulding plant creates bat shelter on site for Earth Day
Paulding employees Tracy Smith (left) and Ben Johnson (right) install a bat shelter at the plant's site.
Lafarge North America’s Paulding Cement plant in Paulding, Ohio mounted a bat shelter in one of the plant’s wildlife habitat areas this week ... 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...
Steady, but modest, growth is the trend
By George H. Reddin
Slow progress in the return of the residential market, modest enthusiasm for the passage of MAP-21, and the continued steady, albeit modest, pace of acquisitions are starting to give some optimism that the worst is behind us ... Read More...
Mining for the Environment
Lafarge’s Wildlife at Work certification shows how aggregate operations can coexist in harmony with the environment.
Acompany’s gravel pit one day is another person’s wildlife-filled park down the line.
Lafarge has partnered with the Wildlife Habitat Council (WHC) to turn mined- out ... Read More...
The Nation’s Top 25 Construction Aggregates Producers
In 2010, the market appeared to bottom out with production continuing its downward trend and average unit values down for the first time since 1998.
U.S. production of construction aggregates in 2010 was 2.14 billion short tons valued at $17 billion, ... Read More...
Lafarge, PACCAR working on $15 billion storm surge protection system with Corps of Engineers
To protect New Orleans and its residents from surges in future storms, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is working on a $15 billion protection system of linked levees, flood walls, gates, and pumps surrounding the city.
To help get that ... Read More...
State and Province News December 2011
To keep up to date with this breakdown of news in the United States and Canada, visit www.AggMan.com for daily updates.
Alabama
Vulcan Materials Co. named John McPherson as its senior vice president of strategy and business development. According to a company ... Read More...
Data Mining December 2011
M&A Activity remains slow, but Martin Marietta and Lafarge swap assets
The number of merger and acquisition transactions in North America was up 13 percent for the three quarters ending Sept. 30, 2011, while the total value of these transactions was ... Read More...
Top Producers
TOP 25 Construction Aggregates Producers in the United States
Rankings are based on 2009 production data provided to the U.S. Geological Survey. Information courtesy of Jason Christopher Willett, construction aggregates commodity specialist, and Wally Bolen, construction sand and gravel commodity specialist.
1 ... Read More...
DataMining March 2011
AggMan Index essentially flat for the month
Over the past month, the S&P 500 posted an increase of about 1 percent to an indexed value of 116.5, and the broader markets crossed several key momentum barriers with the Dow Jones Industrial ... Read More...
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