Tag: Celebrating Missouri

Missouri’s state gas tax has not increased in 23 years, but Missouri Limestone Producers Association leaders remain optimistic about the highway funding opportunity with the Missouri General Assembly over the next couple of years. Photo: iStock.com/benkrut

Highway funding still top of mind in Missouri

October 29, 2019By Kevin Yanik

There’s no shortage of issues Missouri aggregate producers want to address, but shoring up the state’s highway fund remains priority number one.

With its IRock portable crushing and screening plants, Magruder Limestone can detonate a new area of a quarry and then maneuver the equipment back in – all in about a half hour. Photo courtesy of Ironclad Marketing

Magruder Limestone’s effective portable fleet

October 28, 2019By Kevin Yanik

Portable crushing and screening plants boost efficiency and keep production rolling for the Missouri aggregate producer.

Magruder Limestone’s Lake Ozark location in Missouri is situated just off U.S. 54. Photo by Kevin Yanik

Inside Magruder Limestone’s Lake Ozark operation

October 25, 2019By Kevin Yanik

Clark Bollinger, the production manager at Magruder Limestone, offers a look inside one of his nine operations and shares his approach to doing business.

Inside the mind of Lile Quarry’s mechanically-inclined owner

October 14, 2019By Kevin Yanik

Family, farming and fine-tuning equipment continue to drive Jim Lile, the longtime owner of Missouri’s Lile Quarry.