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Top crushed rock companies as of 2015, in order of descending tonnage. The top ten companies provided 45 percent of the crushed rock produced in the US. [5] Rank Company 1. Martin Marietta Aggregates 2. Vulcan Materials Company 3. Oldcastle Materials, Inc. 4. Lehigh Hanson, Inc. 5. CEMEX S.A.B. de C.V. 6. Lafarge North America Inc. 7. Rogers ...
Oldcastle Materials was the fourth largest crushed stone producer in the nation in 2012, according to the USGS. [61] [62] The company ranked number three on Aggregate Manager 's 2012 list of the "top 25 construction aggregates producers" in the U.S., [63] and number three on its 2016 list of the nation's "top 25 crushed stone producers". [64]
The company is the only producer of Shenandoah Valley Bluestone (limestone) Big Run Quarry Site , near Luray, Virginia, NRHP-listed, an archaeological site in Shenandoah National Park . Thunderbird Archaeological District and Jasper quarry, near Limeton, Virginia, is an archaeological district described as consisting of "three sites ...
Continued signs of life in the residential housing market helped construction aggregate producer Martin Marietta Materials (NYS: MLM) achieve growth on both its top and bottom lines in the third ...
Production of some products is highly concentrated in a few countries, China, the leading producer of wheat and ramie in 2013, produces 95% of the world's ramie fiber but only 17% of the world's wheat. Products with more evenly distributed production see more frequent changes in the ranking of the top producers.
In 2005, Vulcan acquired 11 aggregates operations and five asphalt plants in Arizona, Georgia, Indiana and Tennessee. On February 19, 2007, Vulcan announced that it would buy stone and cement producer Florida Rock Industries for $4.7 billion. [6] [7] Vulcan completed the acquisition of Florida Rock on November 16, 2007. [8]
In 2020, U.S. Concrete expanded its aggregates portfolio with the acquisition of Coram Materials, a construction aggregate producer on Long Island, New York. [ 10 ] In June 2021, Vulcan Materials (VMC) announced they would be acquiring U.S. Concrete (USCR) for $74 per share, a 30% premium on the date of the announcement.
The Department of Energy just released the results of an independent study touting the economic benefits of exporting U.S. natural gas. While many manufacturers are against exporting because it ...