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Aggregate producers and equipment suppliers reflected on the 2025 production season and business environment at the March 31-April 1 Pit & Quarry Roundtable & Conference. Here’s what four attendees had to say:
“Our 2025 was probably in line with 2024, which was strong along with 2023. In 2025, weather impacted us. We’re in the Northeast. Winter came in early. We probably lost 20 days of production, which is a month in December – roughly 10 percent of our year on the tail end. We’re also two weeks behind startup for spring.
Infrastructure was probably our strongest market. Residential has remained fairly strong in our area. The Hudson Valley region is populated with a lot of colleges and universities, so there’s a transient population moving in and out.
Single-family homebuilding is really a nonentity. It’s become too expensive, and development takes too long. But very large apartment and HOA-type communities are moving across the area.
The colleges and universities are spending tremendously, and tourism drives a big part of our economy and construction.”
– Stewart Petrovits, Route 82 Sand & Gravel
“We’re in west-central Ohio. The difference between 2025 and 2024 was fairly unremarkable. What’s driving our demand is solar fields, renewable energy work and data centers.
Residential demand is there, but new housing starts are not.
Weather has been a whipsaw – 60- or 70-degree days and then 25 at night. It’s been tough getting sand and gravel operations up and running. That will factor in because demand for natural sand in Ohio is high – we’re basically on allocation.
Recycled concrete has been pretty good for our business.
We’re also doing a lot of work for Honda. We’re blessed to have six plants within trucking distance. They were shifting toward EVs, and we’re not quite sure what the future holds. But the factories are still moving forward.”
“We had a very strong year in 2025 compared with 2024. Based on shipments, we were 10 percent higher in the Southeast and more than 30 percent higher in Texas.
Growth was driven by infrastructure projects, especially in Florida and Texas. We also began shipments to a new yard in Texas, allowing all products to reach the market. We invested in removing bottlenecks and improving efficiency, and ownership supported that growth.
We look forward to a very good 2026.”
– Ronaldo Dos Santos, Anderson Columbia
“Sales from 2025 to 2024 were down about 7 percent. The decrease was driven by project indirects and contractor pace. We work with LNG facilities in South Texas, and contractors were able to complete the bulk of projects in about half the expected time. That stalled our demand pattern.
We’re seeing a surge in demand for granite, especially for shoreline management along the Texas coast. Material is coming from as far as 400 miles away. We’re also seeing bottlenecks along the Mississippi [River] due to barge placement needs.
The procurement process for aggregates on some of these projects can take about 14 months. Once the subgrade and stone are in place, projects accelerate quickly. We’re expecting a strong 2026 as those projects move forward.”
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