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Large board production machine with face mising system for Sims Stone, South Carolina
Even during challenging times, opportunity exists for growth. Successful companies understand that an increase in market share often results from going against the downsizing trend normally adopted in a period of economic slowdown. Sims Stone, a division of Sims Bark, has expanded its concrete products manufacturing operations by opening a third production facility at a new location in Bowman, South Carolina.” Read More...
Ready-mix – an important part of TN precaster’s new business
Jeff VanHoose [founder of East Tennessee Precast] has learned the concrete business, literally from the ground up. Beginning as a concrete contractor in the Knoxville, Tennessee
area he learned the hard way that truck mixed ready-mix concrete (RMC) was not the most reliable way to produce this important building
material. Now, on his second precast products plant (he sold the first to Hanson Pipe & Precast) he knows that if you want it done right you
have to do it yourself. “I poured concrete for many years using hundreds of different ready-mix producers and I can tell you that one load of
truck-mixed RMC could be very different from the next, on the same job,” he recalls. “There was no real consistency from load to load. One
might be rocky and stiff, for instance, and next was not.” Read More...
Shaw Brick paves path to future with new plant
While most of the world continues to wrestle with a global recession of historic proportions, Canada’s Shaw Brick, based in Nova Scotia, has invested in the future by commissioning a modern concrete products production plant that leverages an existing “vintage” building along with its aggregate bins and silo infrastructure. Read More... |
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