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Quarry Faces: March 2025

P&Q Staff Published Mar 13, 2025

Check out our latest version of Quarry Faces, featuring folks we visited with at ISEE's Annual Conference on Explosives & Blasting Technique and our very own Pit & Quarry Roundtable & Conference. Keep Reading

Automation has been a driving force in the aggregate industry of late, and this trend will bolster the dredging market in 2025 and beyond. Photo: Supreme Manufacturing

Developments in dredging tech

Jack Kopanski Published Feb 6, 2025

Automation, maximizing reserves and increasing efficiency are among the trends that will drive the dredging market in 2025. Keep Reading

What’s the typical producer’s mindset on technology?

LJ Inc.’s Tracy Slieff visits with P&Q’s Kevin Yanik to discuss how aggregate producers across the industry are slowly changing and some steps they’re taking to prepare operations for the future. Keep Reading

Quarry Faces: January 2025

P&Q Staff Published Jan 15, 2025

Representatives from P&Q were present at the Ohio Aggregates & Industrial Minerals Association's Annual Meeting in Columbus. See who was in attendance. Keep Reading

Barrett Paving Materials, a Colas company, is now up and running with its Supreme Manufacturing clamshell dredge in Fairborn, Ohio, following years of planning. Photo: P&Q Staff

P&Q Profile: LJ Inc.’s Tracy Slieff

Kevin Yanik Published Sep 17, 2024

Vice president Tracy Slieff discusses his company’s acquisition of Supreme Manufacturing, his personal experience with dredging, and his vision for the future. Keep Reading

What’s new in dredge equipment, technology

Kevin Yanik Published Sep 16, 2024

Presenting solutions from InnoDredge, Supreme Manufacturing and VMI. Keep Reading

Quarry Faces: August 2024

P&Q Staff Published Aug 5, 2024

P&Q attended the Texas Aggregates & Concrete Association’s Annual Meeting and Hillhead 2024 this summer. Take a look at some of the people we bumped into. Keep Reading