Pit & Quarry, December 2017
with great employees that will figure out how to be successful regardless of the challenges put before them says Jerry Younger managing director of the Kansas Aggregate Producers Association For this State of the Industry report P Q gathered insights from state aggregate association directors like Younger but also from aggregate producers manufacturers and dealers across the United States and Canada In all P Q engaged more than 100 individuals whose collective insights provided tremendous data for the makings of this report SALES AND PRICING One of the top takeaways from P Qs survey of aggregate producers is that 2017 sales of construction materials were up over 2016 In fact nearly three in four aggregate producers say their sales were up this year Seventeen percent report flat sales and a small percentage was down this year Luck Stones Rockville Plant in Rockville Virginia compared with 2016 Sales werent just up 1 or 2 percent for most About 55 percent of producers experienced increased sales of at least 5 percent with nearly one in four reporting a sales boost of more than 10 percent Increased pricing certainly contributed to the sales boost as 77 percent of producers say their pricing of construction materials was up this year A typical pricing boost was somewhere in the 1 to 10 percent range although two in 10 pitandquarry com December 2017 PIT QUARRY 11
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