STAYING POWER
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Like many early Great Lakes region concrete suppliers, Carr Bros., Inc., has evolved. Originally a coal and building materials hauler, it shifted to ready mixed concrete as the needs of customers changed. The company is now under fifth generation management, and has been delivering concrete in the Cleveland market for more than half of its 125 years in business.
Bigger and Better
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ConExpo-Con/Agg and co-located IFPE exhibition spotlight the newest product innovations and technologies to increase productivity, reduce downtime, and enhance safety and sustainability for the construction, construction materials and fluid power/power transmission/motion control industries. Running March 7-11 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, every major material, product, equipment and service sector is represented amongst 2,500-plus exhibitors over a record 2,500,000 net square feet of exhibit space. Hundreds of industry meetings, including annual conventions of industry associations, are also held in conjunction with the shows.
Front Line Excellence
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The National Ready Mixed Concrete Association’s 21st Ready Mixed Concrete Driver of the Year program recognizes four industry veterans from a pool of outstanding delivery professionals across the country. The NRMCA Operations, Environmental and Safety Committee assembled a panel of judges to weigh nominees’ competence, driving skills, number of years without an on- or off-road accident, and colleague or customer testimonials.
Concrete Feature Articles
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- Better Blends
- STAYING POWER
- Bigger and Better
- Front Line Excellence
- Active Alleys
- Mammoth shows ride into 2017 cycle on technology wave
- Building a Wall
- BUILDING ON SUCCESS
- QUALITY INDEX
- MODEL CELL
- Cleveland Rocks
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- Cemex, Heidelberg incur antitrust policy on both sides of the Atlantic
- Investors have designs on admixtures
- Davis-Bacon: Repeal and don’t replace
- Construction coalition appeals to Trump’s sense of competition and wage fairness
- Mergers, acquisitions, musical chairs define back-to-back watershed years
- Trump: Concrete friend, regulation foe
- Safety, science support sleep apnea testing
- Paying attention to the carbon footprint behind the wood curtain
- Argos’ art of the nine-figure deal
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