Aggregate Industries acquires Ennstone Aggregate Industries US of Rockville, a provider of aggregate and construction materials, said it closed the asset purchase transaction of Falmouth, Va.-based Ennstone Inc. Details of the agreement were not disclosed. Ennstone is a vertically integrated construction materials company with ready mix, sand and gravel and limestone operations serving commercial, residential and industrial projects, as well as individual homeowners.
You can build lots of stuff over 1,400 square miles, but Long Island's approximate land area is a ceiling of sorts for construction manufacturers. Even during economic distress, there's always commercial and residential construction underway here, and a need for building materials. But even when the economy sizzles and building industries boom, Island-based manufacturers, and Island suppliers who import their wares, face unalterable geographic constraints.
Conference: Talks, workshops offered There's a myth that steel casement windows, popular in the mid- 1900s are inefficient. The idea is popularized by people in the construction and construction materials industries who want to sell replacement windows, said Dorothy Victor of the New Mexico Historic Preservation Division.
A Malaysian trade delegation to Indonesia comprising companies from the construction and building materials industries has secured sales of RM755 million in Indonesia's rapidly expanding building sector. Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation (MATRADE), in collaboration with the Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) and the Master Builders Association of Malaysia (MBAM), organised the mission to Jakarta, Indonesia which was held from July 26 to 29. The mission was led by the-then Deputy CEO of MATRADE, Dr Wong Lai Sum.
The driver in construction projects is financing, not so much construction materials pricing," [Thomas Merritt] said. "Owners can't get enough cash together to build buildings ... that's where the holdup is." [Micheli Hersh], meanwhile, said demand drives projects more than materials costs or even financing, since financing for viable projects with appropriate underwriting standards is still available in the capital markets. The producer price index for inputs to construction industries - a weighted average of all materials used by contractors - has fallen 2.3 percent over the past year, but was flat over the past three months and rose 0.6 percent from October to November, said Ken Simonson, chief economist of The Associated General Contractors of America, in Arlington, Va.
Offbeat sociologist Jeremy Rifkin once explained why America's black family structure disintegrated: Up through World War II, he said, blue-collar industries needed armies of laborers to unload ships, dig ditches, carry construction materials, dig coal, push wheelbarrows, load trucks and railway cars, etc. Multitudes of black men supported families from this work. Then mechanization blossomed in the postwar years. Forklifts, conveyor belts, ditching machines, coal-cutters, end-loaders and the like wiped out millions of manual jobs.
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