Darren Constantino
Trio opens manufacturing facility in California
In response to worldwide sales growth, Trio Engineered Products opened a new manufacturing facility in Adelanto, Calif., the company announced. Joining existing American facilities in California, Alabama and Florida, the new facility will help expand the company’s material handling equipment portfolio and… Keep Reading
House keeps five-year highway program in sight
A five-year surface transportation reauthorization bill remains under consideration in the House, despite Republican leadership pulling its five-year, $260 billion legislation from the floor, according to NSSGA. One unpopular part of the proposed bill was the elimination of the mass transit… Keep Reading
ROCKPAC donors and recipients
As we move through the year toward the November elections, Pit & Quarry will be reporting on the contributions of the National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association's ROCKPAC political action committee. To date, ROCKPAC has donated $115,500 to congressional candidates – $90,500 to… Keep Reading
Rise of ‘rock and roll’
We first reported in January on The Freedonia Group’s World Construction Aggregates study. The group concluded that the global market for construction aggregates is expected to rise an average of 5.2 percent per year through 2015 and, more specifically, the… Keep Reading
Brighter days ahead?
And now for some good news. Construction contractors and equipment distributors are optimistic local non-residential activity will improve in 2012, according to a recent survey by Wells Fargo Equipment Finance Inc., part of Wells Fargo & Co. In the company’s 2012 Construction Industry… Keep Reading
Quarry field trip comes to the students
Pennsylvania fourth-grade science curriculum includes the study of rocks and minerals, their uses, and the resulting impact on the economy and the environment. With a quarry located in Washington Township, Pa., Martin Stone Quarries Inc. has partnered for many years… Keep Reading
No highway bill coming?
In his Innovation NewsBriefs e-newsletter, Ken Orski reports some sobering news in regards to efforts by Congress to get a long-term highway bill passed. Orski says that yesterday at the annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board in Washington, Transportation Secretary Ray… Keep Reading
Web Exclusive: Conveyor belt repair
A large longitudinal rip and grooving was noticed in the center section of a long overland steel cable conveyor belt at a cement and aggregates operation. This was caused by a faulty bearing on a belt turnover pulley that allowed… Keep Reading
In my backyard
On paper and on ExxonMobil television commercials, hydraulic fracturing (fracking) is a safe process for extracting oil and natural gas from deep below the surface of the earth. In practice, the safety of the process is yet to be determined.… Keep Reading
