Archive for August 2023

Says PPI’s Jeff Poe: “You can have a conveyor track perfectly in the center for years, and then all of a sudden it will want to track to the left or the right.” Photo: P&Q Staff

Making sense of construction materials right now

August 31, 2023 By George Reddin, Rob Mineo and Evan Coughlin

FMI Capital Advisors leaders explain how producers are prevailing in various ways despite uncertainty within the market.

Martin Marietta, UNACEM strike a deal

August 30, 2023 By Kevin Yanik

Martin Marietta is offloading a California cement plant to the Peruvian company in a deal valued at more than $300 million.

Motion and NSK leaders celebrated NSK’s Supplier of the Year award during a summer presentation. Pictured from left are David Tassi and Andrew Pelletier (NSK); Chris Brewer (Motion); Tarek Bugaighis (NSK); Joe Limbaugh, Julie Knight and Robert Anaforian (Motion); Taylor Bond (NSK); and Alan Cripps (Motion). Photo: Motion

NSK earns Motion’s top supplier award

August 30, 2023 By Kevin Yanik

Motion Industries, a distributor of maintenance, repair and operation replacement parts, named NSK its Supplier of the Year.

EPA under the Trump administration argued that the Navigable Waters Protection rule ended decades of uncertainty over where federal jurisdiction begins and ends. Photo: P&Q Staff

Industry reacts as revised WOTUS rule emerges

August 30, 2023 By Kevin Yanik

Leaders at the National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association and other organizations voiced their displeasure with the latest Waters of the United States (WOTUS) definition.

Conveyor components to help boost your operation (Part 1)

August 30, 2023 By P&Q Staff

Take a look at some of the latest offerings in conveyor components from Flux Drive, Superior Industries, Tecweigh and Van der Graaf.

What’s happening with construction materials M&A

August 29, 2023 By Marie Emerick and Kevin Yanik

FMI Capital Advisors’ George Reddin and Rob Mineo discuss what’s been happening in the M&A market and what to expect in the coming months.

Hanson Aggregates - Penns Park Quarry Conveyor, Newtown, Pennsylvania. Photo: Zach Mentz

Construction job openings down, labor scarcity remains

August 29, 2023 By Jack Kopanski

Anirban Basu, chief economist at the Associated Builders & Contractors, anticipates labor scarcity to a headwind in 2023, despite job openings going down.

Superior adds industry veteran as training coordinator

August 29, 2023 By Jack Kopanski

Kristen Randall, who spent the last 17 years with Haver & Boecker Niagara, joins Superior Industries as a training and development coordinator.

Three of the 16 fatalities the Mine Safety & Health Administration recorded through the end of July were classified as powered haulage. Photo: P&Q Staff

How far does MSHA jurisdiction extend beyond mine property?

August 29, 2023 By Margo Lopez and Bill Doran

Ogletree Deakins’ Bill Doran and Margo Lopez provide an update on a case involving where the Mine Safety & Health Administration’s (MSHA) jurisdiction ends.