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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...