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Schwing America has announced the acquisition of management control of Concrete Pump Repair (CPR) through the purchase of 50% of the company’s shares.
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CEMEX-IUCN partnership developed a methodology to measure and minimize CEMEX’s water footprint and increase its water efficiency.
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ACPA recognizes excellence in workplace safety with prestigious national awards.
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The National Precast Concrete Association (NPCA) celebrated the industry’s best with a series of awards events at the 2013 Precast Show in Indianapolis.
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Vulcan Materials Company has announced that it has completed asset sale transactions which generated total gross proceeds of approximately $149 million.
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Improving underlying economic fundamentals, the existence of large pent-up demand balances, and the diminishment of economic fiscal cliff uncertainty will combine to result in strong growth rates in 2013 and an increase in cement consumption.
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Association commemorates first ready-mix concrete delivery.
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Spancrete Global Services congratulates Beijing Construction Engineering Group. Ltd. (BCEG) on the commissioning of its new, full-scale precast production facility in Jubail, Saudi Arabia.
For the second-straight year, attendance at The Precast Show reflected the positive impact of the slow but steady economic recovery on the confidence of the industry.
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The NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index stalls at 47, just shy of the point where more builders consider the single-family homes market will be better in the next six months.
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The Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI) has elected Tom Kelley, P.E., as its chairman for 2013.
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The Portland Cement Association (PCA) has appointed Edward Sullivan as group vice chairman in addition to his role as chief economist.
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Irving Materials, Inc. (IMI) is pleased to announce the acquisition of the ready-mix concrete assets of Transit-Mix Concrete Co. in Owensboro, Kentucky from Kim and Ann Agner.
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Missouri University of Science and Technology will host the annual Missouri Concrete Conference April 23-24 in the Havener Center on campus.
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According to new figures from the U.S. Labor Department, 30,000 construction jobs were created in December.
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Trenwa, Inc. has announced the promotion of George Schurr to President and Chief Operating Officer.
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In his NRMCA Industry Data Survey presentation at the association's ConcreteWorks conference in National Harbor, Md., in September, Pierre Villere, president and managing partner at Allen-Villere Partners, gave advice to producers on how to manage risk in the future.
The winter season and its frigid temperatures pose unique challenges to concrete producers. Ozinga Brothers, a ready-mixed concrete producer whose operations extend throughout Chicago, Northeast Illinois, Northwest Indiana, and Michigan, is not an exception.
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Back in the mid-1980s, a cartoon depicted a sodden and visibly degenerating group of Canadians peering forlornly south of the border as rain fell-acid rain as it turned out spiced by the sulfurous output from a hundred coal-burning power plants in the Northeast U.S.
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This summer, the U.S. Supreme Court let stand the vast majority of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the nation's new health care law.