Pit & Quarry, December 2018
THE INDUSTRY STATEOF TOP 2018 STORIES THE STORIES YOU LOVED P it Quarry readers enjoy a good mix of articles Many of you keep up with aggregate industry news at PitandQuarry com where you also gravitate toward the feature stories we publish on your peers and their operations At P Q analytics give us the ability to see which articles youre interested in the most We pored over the data for 2018 and developed the top 10 list presented here for you to peruse This list contains a healthy combination of news and feature stories on aggregate producers and equipment manufacturers who made big announcements or changes in their businesses this year You can explore each of the top 10 articles online by visiting the URL following these brief summaries THE TOP 10 1 USGS reveals the nations top crushed stone sand and gravel producers P Q readers show interest in the U S Geological Surveys USGS top producer lists every year and 2018 is no different USGS produced separate lists highlighting the 20 top crushed stone and sand and gravel producers based on their 2016 production The lists revealed the total combined production of the top crushed stone producers 743 million metric tons and sand and gravel producers 269 million metric tons Vulcan Materials tops the crushed stone producers list this year while CRH Americas heads the sand and gravel producers list PitandQuarry com top20stone PitandQuarry com top20sand 2 Former Cemex USA president joins Summit Materials This was one of the first announcements published on PitandQuarry com in 2018 BY ALLISON BARWACZ Left Carmeuses Port Inland operation in Gulliver Michigan was the site of a unique project with historic equipment that was ultimately replaced by drum motors Texas is just off the charts McLanahans Mark Krause said of the frac sand market earlier this year The frac sand world right now is just slammed trying to get their plants started The cost to extract it is cheaper and its much closer to where they need it Theres decent quality sand thats much closer to the source 16 PIT QUARRY December 2018 pitandquarry com CLOCKWISE FROM TOP RIGHT MATT LEPP BARRETT DIXON BELL KEVIN YANIK CDE Below Luck Stone chief UAV pilot Eric Warinner seen preparing to launch the eBee RTK took P Q readers into his world earlier this year by sharing his experience on the front lines The top 20 sand and gravel producers in the nation accounted for nearly 270 million metric tons in 2016 USGS reports
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