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September 1, 2020
Summit Materials is honored to welcome Anne Noonan as the company’s CEO and a member of the Summit Materials, Inc. Board of Directors.
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2019
Boxley was named one of Virginia’s Best from 2018 at the most recent Virginia Asphalt Association’s MidAtlantic Expo. Click here to find out more.
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November 7, 2019
As of November 7, 2019, Norris Quarries (a part of Con-Agg) has gone three years without a recordable, lost time, or fleet incident!
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October 2019
In October of 2019, RK Hall reached 7 million man-hours without a lost-time injury.
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May 2019
Summit Materials was honored to accept the Corporate Salute Award from Boardbound by Women’s Leadership Foundation for having three women on our Board of Directors.
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May 2019
Continental Cement was recognized for excellence in workplace safety and health during the Governor’s Safety Awards ceremony on May 7th during the 85th annual Minnesota Safety & Health Conference at Mystic Lake Center. Continental Cement was one of 294 employers to be honored through the awards program, which was coordinated by the Minnesota Safety Council. Continental Cement received an Award of Honor for exemplary workplace safety efforts in 2018.
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January 2019
Mainland Construction Materials installed a new primary crusher at their Cox Station Quarry, which should significantly increase production at the site to better serve the Vancouver, BC area.
www.equipmentjournal.com/on-the-job/cox-station-quarry-aggregate
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January 2019
The Hannibal Cement Plant, owned/managed by Continental Cement Company, has earned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) ENERGY STAR certification, which signifies that the industrial facility performs in the top 25 percent of similar facilities nationwide for energy efficiency and meets strict energy efficiency performance levels set by the EPA.
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November 2018
Tom Beck, President of Continental Cement Company, and Summit Materials EVP, was elected at the close of 2018 to serve as Portland Cement Association’s Chairman for 2019. Congratulations Tom!
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March 2018
In March of 2018, Mainland Sand & Gravel joined with Winvan Paving to form Mainland Construction Materials in Vancouver, BC.
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January 2018
Summit Materials appointed Karl H. Watson as new COO. Karl has more than 25 years of experience in the construction materials industry. In 2017, he served as President, Cement & Southwest Ready Mix at Martin Marietta Materials, Inc., a supplier of construction aggregates and heavy building materials. Prior to joining Martin Marietta, Karl served in various leadership positions at Cemex, S.A.B. de C.V., a Mexican cement manufacturer, including President, Cemex USA. Prior to Cemex’s acquisition of Rinker Group Ltd., an Australian building materials supplier, Karl held various executive positions at Rinker in both the United States and Australia.
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2018
Cornejo & Sons supplied special blended aggregate as a base and for an exhibit landscape material at the 14 acre park. The park is home to over 40 animatronic life-size dinosaurs in Derby County, Kansas. Click here to explore the park online.
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July 2017
In July of 2017, Alleyton acquired Great Southern Stabilized, which added stabilized sand and slurry products to the business. Cement stabilized sand is used for backfill and bedding in a wide range of underground construction projects.
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2017
Mainland Sand & Gravel acquires Winvan Paving, expanding business.
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July 2016
American Materials is acquired by Summit Materials
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March 2016
Tom Hill, CEO of Summit, commented, “We are delighted to team up with a company of Boxley’s heritage and quality. Boxley provides Summit with a substantial presence in the attractive Virginia market under the Boxley name and existing leadership team, and a great foundation for continued growth.” Ab Boxley, CEO of Boxley, added, “Summit is great fit for Boxley. I have known the Summit team for many years and we are perfectly aligned on strategy, culture and commitment to the customers we serve and the communities in which we operate. On behalf of all the Boxley employees throughout Virginia, we are very excited to become part of Summit and look forward to building on our long and successful history.”
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2016
Austin Materials has worked closely with the Hill Country Conservancy and supplied base for the surface course on the Violet Crown Trail. It is planned to be a 30-mile regional trail that will act as a connector that will splice together a network of over 100 miles of trails in the Austin region.
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July 2015
Summit completed an acquisition of a 1.2 million short ton capacity cement plant in Davenport, Iowa along with seven cement distribution terminals from Lafarge North America Inc.. As a result of the acquisition, Summit owns 2.4 million short tons of cement production capacity across the two cement plants plus eight cement distribution terminals along the Mississippi River system ranging from Minneapolis, Minnesota to New Orleans, Louisiana.
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March 2015
Summit Materials has a successful public offering on the NYSE.
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2014
Boxley opened its state-of-the-art, environmentally friendly Astec® asphalt manufacturing plant in Lynchburg, replacing two older plants with one. They also launched the asphalt paving maintenance business; thus, expanding the company's contracting services.
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January 2014
In January of 2014, Alleyton was acquired by Summit Materials. Alleyton is an integrated aggregates and ready-mix concrete company based in Houston, Texas. Alleyton operates five sand and gravel sites and has seven ready-mix concrete plants in the west Houston metropolitan area.
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2014
Mainland Sand and Gravel (now Mainland Construction Materials) was acquired by Summit Materials and was its first Canadian acquisition.
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2014
Summit acquires Troy Vines, Inc.
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December 2012
Allied Concrete, a family-owned company since 1954, joined Alleyton resource. They provide concrete paving and piping services to the Houston area expanding Alleyton' s reach.
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2012
Cox Station Quarry ships over three million metric tons to the marketplace in the calendar year.
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October 2011
Austin Materials joined the Summit team in 2011.
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2011
Industrial Asphalt and Aggregates, the merger of Industrial Asphalt and RTI Materials, joins Austin Materials.
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2010
Kilgore is acquired by Summit in 2010 and is now composed of: Altaview Concrete, Elam Construction, Grand Junction Pipe, Kilgore Contracting, Le Grand Johnson, Lewis and Lewis, Inc., Sierra Ready Mix, and Triple C Concrete. Tom Hill, CEO of Summit stated, “We are very pleased to form our third regional platform in Salt Lake City, Utah through these acquisitions. Utah is an attractive business environment and we are delighted to establish a position in this market. Harper-Kilgore comprises many skilled and experienced employees and we would like to welcome them all into the Summit group of companies.”
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January 2010
Con-Agg was acquired by Summit Materials in 2010. Through the years Con-Agg's mining operations have been recognized by the Missouri Limestone Producers Association as Best-in-Class for both large and medium-sized operations. Recent honors include the Hillenkamp-Rush Meritorious Safety Award and special commendations for 22 consecutive years with no lost-time accidents.
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2010
Hinkle is acquired by Summit Materials.
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2010
RK Hall was acquired by Summit in 2010. This was Summit's second acquisition.
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2010
Cornejo & Sons joined Summit in 2010. “We are delighted to expand our presence in Kansas with the addition of Cornejo & Sons, a first class operation. I look forward to working with Ron Cornejo and Marty Cornejo to grow the business and provide new opportunities for Summit and its customers,” said Tom Hill, CEO of Summit. Ron Cornejo, CEO of Cornejo & Sons noted, "We are pleased to join forces with Summit Materials so that we can continue to grow our business. Partnering with Summit Materials allows the Cornejo family and our employees the opportunity to grow dynamically as the economy improves. It also allows us to offer more products, services and value to our clients and communities.”
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2010
Summit Materials acquired Continental Cement Company.
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2009
Summit 's first acquisition, Hamm joined Summit Materials in 2009.
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2009
Summit was founded by Tom Hill and a small team of investors.
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2006
Improvements in the technology and efficiency of the cement manufacturing process, along with increasing age on the existing plant, prompted the construction of a new plant in 2006. The current plant is now the third plant to produce cement from the same location south of Hannibal.
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2006
RK Hall, a leading provider of high quality asphalt paving in Texas and Oklahoma, is founded.
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2005
Green America Recycling safely utilizes waste materials to supplement coal as a fuel for the cement manufacturing process.
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2003
Jamison Quarry is located on the south slope of Sumas Mountain.
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2000
Kilgore Paving and Maintenance, LLC (now a part of Kilgore Companies) was founded in 2000 by Jason Kilgore.
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1999
American Materials, one of the largest sand and gravel producers of Eastern North Carolina and Northeastern South Carolina, is formed.
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1998
This milestone put Cox Quarry as one of the top 25 producing aggregate operations in Canada. The quarry has made the list every year since.
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1994
Boxley added its concrete business line in 1994 with the purchase of a plant in Martinsville, VA. It entered into the block and masonry business in 1995 with the purchase of Lynchburg Block. A sales center was added in Roanoke, and a new block manufacturing facility was opened in Lynchburg in 2006
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1993
Austin Materials, a provider of asphalt and aggregate materials, is founded.
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1992
After the increasing usage of supplemental waste fuels as a replacement for coal 1986, CCC acquires MFR (which is now Green American Recycling), expanding the use of waste fuels.
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1986
After purchasing the quarry, Mainland builds a barge load out facility where the first barge left Cox Station in January of 1986.
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1981
After looking for more than 2 years, Mainland Sand & Gravel purchases property on the north slope of Sumas Mountain. The area is still used to ship aggregate from the site to rail cars.
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1978
Troy Vines was established by Troy Vines in 1978.
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1975
Capital City Construction changes its name to Winvan Paving.
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1971
Winvan Paving is purchased from Commonwealth by Capital City Construction and is operated as a separate division
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1970
Mainland Sand & Gravel (now Mainland Construction Materials) is founded by Laurie Carlson and his brother Mel Carlson.
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1966
Winvan Paving is founded as a division under Commonwealth Construction Company.
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1966
The original plant was expanded and improved throughout its operating history until 1966, when a new manufacturing facility was constructed to replace it. At that time, one 622′ x 16′ kiln replaced sixteen small kilns and production was more than doubled. This kiln was the second longest cement kiln in the world, with annual production rates of over 600,000 tons of clinker.
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1959
Mainland Sand and Gravel (now Main Construction Materials) is founded.
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1956
Hinkle changes its company name from Buckner Hinkle and Company to the current Hinkle Contracting Corporation.
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1954
Hamm is founded by the Hamm family in 1954, and is still run by Gary Hamm.
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1954
Alleyton Resource Company is founded and begins operating in 1954.
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1952
Jess Cornejo started Jess Cornejo Trucking & Excavating (which would become Cornejo and Sons) with barely enough money to buy one old truck. Over the years, Jess and his wife, Josephine, grew the company, eventually handing the company down to his sons.
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1948
This first portable plant enabled Hinkle to expand into rock crushing.
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1942
Hinkle Contracting Company is founded by Buckner Hinkle, as Buckner Hinkle and Company, as a family partnership. The company's first major contract was for a seeding and fertilizing job. The change to infrastructure work occurred in 1945 when Hinkle built small concrete structures for the Kentucky Highway Department.
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1908
Boxley's first quarry is purchased and the company continues to grow. The quarry was 58 miles west of Roanoke and was known as Sinking Creek Limestone Quarry in Giles County.
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1903
Continental Cement Company begins cement manufacturing at their Hannibal site. Cement from Continental Cement Company has long been recognized for its consistent quality and was selected for many notable construction projects, including the Empire State Building and the Panama Canal.
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1892
Boxley, established by William Wise Boxley, is founded. The company started their first quarry in 1908, 58 miles west of Roanoke, VA. The second quarry, Pembroke Limestone Works, was opened in Giles County as well, and by 1916 it was the largest of the quarries. Quarry number three was opened in 1913, known as The Pounding Mill Quarry. The fourth quarry, Blue Ridge Stone Company opened in 1917. Most work was being done by hand, mule carts, and some steam machinery; their first mechanical shovel cost $4,500.
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September 1, 2020
Summit Materials is honored to welcome Anne Noonan as the company’s CEO and a member of the Summit Materials, Inc. Board of Directors.
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May 2019
Summit Materials was honored to accept the Corporate Salute Award from Boardbound by Women’s Leadership Foundation for having three women on our Board of Directors.
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January 2018
Summit Materials appointed Karl H. Watson as new COO. Karl has more than 25 years of experience in the construction materials industry. In 2017, he served as President, Cement & Southwest Ready Mix at Martin Marietta Materials, Inc., a supplier of construction aggregates and heavy building materials. Prior to joining Martin Marietta, Karl served in various leadership positions at Cemex, S.A.B. de C.V., a Mexican cement manufacturer, including President, Cemex USA. Prior to Cemex’s acquisition of Rinker Group Ltd., an Australian building materials supplier, Karl held various executive positions at Rinker in both the United States and Australia.
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March 2016
Tom Hill, CEO of Summit, commented, “We are delighted to team up with a company of Boxley’s heritage and quality. Boxley provides Summit with a substantial presence in the attractive Virginia market under the Boxley name and existing leadership team, and a great foundation for continued growth.” Ab Boxley, CEO of Boxley, added, “Summit is great fit for Boxley. I have known the Summit team for many years and we are perfectly aligned on strategy, culture and commitment to the customers we serve and the communities in which we operate. On behalf of all the Boxley employees throughout Virginia, we are very excited to become part of Summit and look forward to building on our long and successful history.”
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July 2015
Summit completed an acquisition of a 1.2 million short ton capacity cement plant in Davenport, Iowa along with seven cement distribution terminals from Lafarge North America Inc.. As a result of the acquisition, Summit owns 2.4 million short tons of cement production capacity across the two cement plants plus eight cement distribution terminals along the Mississippi River system ranging from Minneapolis, Minnesota to New Orleans, Louisiana.
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March 2015
Summit Materials has a successful public offering on the NYSE.
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2014
Summit acquires Troy Vines, Inc.
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January 2014
In January of 2014, Alleyton was acquired by Summit Materials. Alleyton is an integrated aggregates and ready-mix concrete company based in Houston, Texas. Alleyton operates five sand and gravel sites and has seven ready-mix concrete plants in the west Houston metropolitan area.
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2014
Mainland Sand and Gravel (now Mainland Construction Materials) was acquired by Summit Materials and was its first Canadian acquisition.
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October 2011
Austin Materials joined the Summit team in 2011.
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2010
Kilgore is acquired by Summit in 2010 and is now composed of: Altaview Concrete, Elam Construction, Grand Junction Pipe, Kilgore Contracting, Le Grand Johnson, Lewis and Lewis, Inc., Sierra Ready Mix, and Triple C Concrete. Tom Hill, CEO of Summit stated, “We are very pleased to form our third regional platform in Salt Lake City, Utah through these acquisitions. Utah is an attractive business environment and we are delighted to establish a position in this market. Harper-Kilgore comprises many skilled and experienced employees and we would like to welcome them all into the Summit group of companies.”
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2010
RK Hall was acquired by Summit in 2010. This was Summit's second acquisition.
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2010
Summit Materials acquired Continental Cement Company.
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January 2010
Con-Agg was acquired by Summit Materials in 2010. Through the years Con-Agg's mining operations have been recognized by the Missouri Limestone Producers Association as Best-in-Class for both large and medium-sized operations. Recent honors include the Hillenkamp-Rush Meritorious Safety Award and special commendations for 22 consecutive years with no lost-time accidents.
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2010
Cornejo & Sons joined Summit in 2010. “We are delighted to expand our presence in Kansas with the addition of Cornejo & Sons, a first class operation. I look forward to working with Ron Cornejo and Marty Cornejo to grow the business and provide new opportunities for Summit and its customers,” said Tom Hill, CEO of Summit. Ron Cornejo, CEO of Cornejo & Sons noted, "We are pleased to join forces with Summit Materials so that we can continue to grow our business. Partnering with Summit Materials allows the Cornejo family and our employees the opportunity to grow dynamically as the economy improves. It also allows us to offer more products, services and value to our clients and communities.”
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2010
Hinkle is acquired by Summit Materials.
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2009
Summit was founded by Tom Hill and a small team of investors.
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2009
Summit 's first acquisition, Hamm joined Summit Materials in 2009.
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2019
Boxley was named one of Virginia’s Best from 2018 at the most recent Virginia Asphalt Association’s MidAtlantic Expo. Click here to find out more.
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November 7, 2019
As of November 7, 2019, Norris Quarries (a part of Con-Agg) has gone three years without a recordable, lost time, or fleet incident!
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October 2019
In October of 2019, RK Hall reached 7 million man-hours without a lost-time injury.
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May 2019
Continental Cement was recognized for excellence in workplace safety and health during the Governor’s Safety Awards ceremony on May 7th during the 85th annual Minnesota Safety & Health Conference at Mystic Lake Center. Continental Cement was one of 294 employers to be honored through the awards program, which was coordinated by the Minnesota Safety Council. Continental Cement received an Award of Honor for exemplary workplace safety efforts in 2018.
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January 2019
Mainland Construction Materials installed a new primary crusher at their Cox Station Quarry, which should significantly increase production at the site to better serve the Vancouver, BC area.
www.equipmentjournal.com/on-the-job/cox-station-quarry-aggregate
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January 2019
The Hannibal Cement Plant, owned/managed by Continental Cement Company, has earned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) ENERGY STAR certification, which signifies that the industrial facility performs in the top 25 percent of similar facilities nationwide for energy efficiency and meets strict energy efficiency performance levels set by the EPA.
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November 2018
Tom Beck, President of Continental Cement Company, and Summit Materials EVP, was elected at the close of 2018 to serve as Portland Cement Association’s Chairman for 2019. Congratulations Tom!
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March 2018
In March of 2018, Mainland Sand & Gravel joined with Winvan Paving to form Mainland Construction Materials in Vancouver, BC.
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2018
Cornejo & Sons supplied special blended aggregate as a base and for an exhibit landscape material at the 14 acre park. The park is home to over 40 animatronic life-size dinosaurs in Derby County, Kansas. Click here to explore the park online.
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July 2017
In July of 2017, Alleyton acquired Great Southern Stabilized, which added stabilized sand and slurry products to the business. Cement stabilized sand is used for backfill and bedding in a wide range of underground construction projects.
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2017
Mainland Sand & Gravel acquires Winvan Paving, expanding business.
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July 2016
American Materials is acquired by Summit Materials
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2016
Austin Materials has worked closely with the Hill Country Conservancy and supplied base for the surface course on the Violet Crown Trail. It is planned to be a 30-mile regional trail that will act as a connector that will splice together a network of over 100 miles of trails in the Austin region.
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2014
Boxley opened its state-of-the-art, environmentally friendly Astec® asphalt manufacturing plant in Lynchburg, replacing two older plants with one. They also launched the asphalt paving maintenance business; thus, expanding the company's contracting services.
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December 2012
Allied Concrete, a family-owned company since 1954, joined Alleyton resource. They provide concrete paving and piping services to the Houston area expanding Alleyton' s reach.
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2012
Cox Station Quarry ships over three million metric tons to the marketplace in the calendar year.
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2011
Industrial Asphalt and Aggregates, the merger of Industrial Asphalt and RTI Materials, joins Austin Materials.
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2006
RK Hall, a leading provider of high quality asphalt paving in Texas and Oklahoma, is founded.
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2006
Improvements in the technology and efficiency of the cement manufacturing process, along with increasing age on the existing plant, prompted the construction of a new plant in 2006. The current plant is now the third plant to produce cement from the same location south of Hannibal.
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2005
Green America Recycling safely utilizes waste materials to supplement coal as a fuel for the cement manufacturing process.
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2003
Jamison Quarry is located on the south slope of Sumas Mountain.
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2000
Kilgore Paving and Maintenance, LLC (now a part of Kilgore Companies) was founded in 2000 by Jason Kilgore.
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1999
American Materials, one of the largest sand and gravel producers of Eastern North Carolina and Northeastern South Carolina, is formed.
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1998
This milestone put Cox Quarry as one of the top 25 producing aggregate operations in Canada. The quarry has made the list every year since.
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1994
Boxley added its concrete business line in 1994 with the purchase of a plant in Martinsville, VA. It entered into the block and masonry business in 1995 with the purchase of Lynchburg Block. A sales center was added in Roanoke, and a new block manufacturing facility was opened in Lynchburg in 2006
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1993
Austin Materials, a provider of asphalt and aggregate materials, is founded.
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1992
After the increasing usage of supplemental waste fuels as a replacement for coal 1986, CCC acquires MFR (which is now Green American Recycling), expanding the use of waste fuels.
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1986
After purchasing the quarry, Mainland builds a barge load out facility where the first barge left Cox Station in January of 1986.
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1981
After looking for more than 2 years, Mainland Sand & Gravel purchases property on the north slope of Sumas Mountain. The area is still used to ship aggregate from the site to rail cars.
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1978
Troy Vines was established by Troy Vines in 1978.
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1975
Capital City Construction changes its name to Winvan Paving.
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1971
Winvan Paving is purchased from Commonwealth by Capital City Construction and is operated as a separate division
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1970
Mainland Sand & Gravel (now Mainland Construction Materials) is founded by Laurie Carlson and his brother Mel Carlson.
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1966
Winvan Paving is founded as a division under Commonwealth Construction Company.
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1966
The original plant was expanded and improved throughout its operating history until 1966, when a new manufacturing facility was constructed to replace it. At that time, one 622′ x 16′ kiln replaced sixteen small kilns and production was more than doubled. This kiln was the second longest cement kiln in the world, with annual production rates of over 600,000 tons of clinker.
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1959
Mainland Sand and Gravel (now Main Construction Materials) is founded.
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1956
Hinkle changes its company name from Buckner Hinkle and Company to the current Hinkle Contracting Corporation.
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1954
Alleyton Resource Company is founded and begins operating in 1954.
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1954
Hamm is founded by the Hamm family in 1954, and is still run by Gary Hamm.
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1952
Jess Cornejo started Jess Cornejo Trucking & Excavating (which would become Cornejo and Sons) with barely enough money to buy one old truck. Over the years, Jess and his wife, Josephine, grew the company, eventually handing the company down to his sons.
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1948
This first portable plant enabled Hinkle to expand into rock crushing.
-
1942
Hinkle Contracting Company is founded by Buckner Hinkle, as Buckner Hinkle and Company, as a family partnership. The company's first major contract was for a seeding and fertilizing job. The change to infrastructure work occurred in 1945 when Hinkle built small concrete structures for the Kentucky Highway Department.
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1908
Boxley's first quarry is purchased and the company continues to grow. The quarry was 58 miles west of Roanoke and was known as Sinking Creek Limestone Quarry in Giles County.
-
1903
Continental Cement Company begins cement manufacturing at their Hannibal site. Cement from Continental Cement Company has long been recognized for its consistent quality and was selected for many notable construction projects, including the Empire State Building and the Panama Canal.
-
1892
Boxley, established by William Wise Boxley, is founded. The company started their first quarry in 1908, 58 miles west of Roanoke, VA. The second quarry, Pembroke Limestone Works, was opened in Giles County as well, and by 1916 it was the largest of the quarries. Quarry number three was opened in 1913, known as The Pounding Mill Quarry. The fourth quarry, Blue Ridge Stone Company opened in 1917. Most work was being done by hand, mule carts, and some steam machinery; their first mechanical shovel cost $4,500.