Pit & Quarry, December 2013

www pitandquarry com North Coast Media LLC 1360 E Ninth St Suite 1070 Cleveland OH 44114 Phone 216 706 3700 Fax 216 706 3711 EDITOR IN CHIEF Darren Constantino 216 706 3747 dconstantino@ northcoastmedia net MANAGING EDITOR Kevin Yanik 216 706 3724 kyanik@ northcoastmedia net SAFETY LAW EDITOR Michael T Heenan michael heenan@ odnss com AGGREGATES FORECASTER David Chereb dc@ davidcherebgroup com WESTERN U S CORRESPONDENT Loretta Sorensen PRINT ELECTRONIC ADVERTISING PUBLISHER Rob Fulop 216 706 3741 rfulop@ northcoastmedia net NATIONAL SALES MANAGER Dino Vitanza 216 706 3744 dvitanza@ northcoastmedia net CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING SALES MANAGER Dino Vitanza 216 706 3744 dvitanza@ northcoastmedia net PRESIDENT CEO Kevin Stoltman 216 706 3740 kstoltman@ northcoastmedia net V P FINANCE OPERATIONS Steve Galperin 216 706 3705 sgalperin@ northcoastmedia net V P GRAPHIC DESIGN PRODUCTION Pete Seltzer 216 706 3737 pseltzer@ northcoastmedia net ART DIRECTOR Kim Traum PRODUCTION SERVICES MANAGER Terri Johnstone 216 978 9622 tjohnstone@ northcoastmedia net AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT MANAGER Antoinette Sanchez Perkins BUYERS GUIDE INQUIRIES Fry Communications Inc 800 334 1429 pitquarry@ frycomm com LIST RENTAL Antoinette Sanchez Perkins 216 706 3750 asanchez perkins@ northcoastmedia net REPRINTS Mike McSorley Wrights Media 281 419 5725 mmcsorley@ wrightsmedia com SUBSCRIPTIONS CUSTOMER SERVICE Phone 847 763 4942 Fax 847 763 9694 Web www pitandquarry com subscribe Reasons for optimism A t the Ohio Aggregates Industrial Minerals Association meeting in Columbus last month Jerry Wray director of the Ohio Department of Transportation was less than optimistic about the chances for a large multi year highway bill anytime soon We will standing here a year from now still without a highway bill Wray said A big bucket of money from Washington is not coming And while Wray might be right on that point there are many reasons for the aggregates industry to be optimistic going into 2014 When we held the annual Pit Quarry Roundtable Conference this fall in Ft Myers Fla the general outlook from both aggregate producers and equipment manufacturers was cautiously optimistic During the event Roland Boney vice president at Vulcan Materials Co said Im based in Florida where the residential fall was steep Now were starting to see the curve going back the other way Residentially there is sustainable growth in Florida for the years to come And Dan Goethel vice president of aggregate operations at Rogers Group added Certain areas of the country are benefiting from highway projects Others are benefiting from residential and commercial upticks Read the roundtable transcripts beginning on page 16 Ward Nye president and CEO of Martin Marietta Materials is quoted in our State of the Industry report page 51 We believe the recent positive trend in housing starts will continue and our residential end use market will experience double digit volume growth in 2014 The National Stone Sand Gravel Association is optimistic about the future as well In an interview with Pit Quarry Mike Johnson new NSSGA president and CEO said Now is one of the strangest environments I have experienced in more than 20 years of working with Congress That is not to say by any means that we cannot succeed in winning passage of a long term highway bill and a sustainable funding solution for the Highway Trust Fund It does require that we think and act differently though As Einstein said The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results Read the full interview with Johnson in the January 2014 issue of Pit Quarry AT OUR ROUNDTABLE EVENT THIS FALL THE GENERAL OUTLOOK FROM BOTH AGGREGATE PRODUCERS AND EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURERS WAS CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC Darren Constantino EDITOR IN CHIEF dconstantino@ northcoastmedia net 2 PIT QUARRY December 2013 www pitandquarry com