Producer Profiles

The story of Palmetto Corp, Conway, S.C., runs three generations deep. In the 1960s, Mack Godwin began offering asphalt patching and driveway paving as part of his company, Godwin Construction. In 1987, his son Marshall struck out on his own to offer these services on a larger scale and Palmetto Corp was born. Marshall’s son, […]

When Chuck Calvert started Hot Mix Materials, Inc., Kansas City, Missouri, in 2007, he had already been operating a successful asphalt laydown business. As he continued to need more and more asphalt for his jobs, he began to run into issues getting everything he needed from existing asphalt plants in the Kansas City metro area. […]

Casey Greinermiller never set out to be in the asphalt industry. It wasn’t until he took a summer job at RS Asphalt Maintenance, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, between school years studying fine arts at Kutztown University that he began to consider it as a career option. Art and asphalt may seem two completely different industries, but that’s […]

Many asphalt professionals are familiar with Luck Stone of Richmond, Virginia. The largest and oldest division of Luck Companies has a solid business with three generations behind it in the aggregate world. Now it has a new launch in its Luck Ecosystems, a purpose-driven business with the goal to improve the environment by transforming raw […]

It’s no secret that California Highway Standards are some of the strictest in the nation when it comes to recycled asphalt. Now CalTrans has embraced Superpave; Kroeker, Inc., of central California was formed, in part, to help meet Superpave requirements as a natural offshoot of its original excavation and demolition services. The company started in […]

Non-family businesses can learn a lot from family businesses. A recent Harvard Business Review study reports “Family businesses outperformed non-family businesses during the boom years leading up to the 2008 recession, and during the 2001 and 2008 recession years.” Family businesses were less likely to lay off workers during the lean times, and more likely […]