Jul 26, 2016
Mid-Ohio Paving Grows its Hot Mix Goals
When Jim Nichols first purchased a parallel flow asphalt plant in 2008, he thought he was in over his head. But he also knew it was a necessary risk. Larger […]
Jul 26, 2016
When Jim Nichols first purchased a parallel flow asphalt plant in 2008, he thought he was in over his head. But he also knew it was a necessary risk. Larger […]
Jun 28, 2016
When Caroline Hughes was in grade school, she spent an entire summer sorting teeth. “The guys would bring me buckets of teeth to see if we could recycle any,” Hughes […]
Apr 27, 2016
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. […]
Feb 07, 2016
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 […]
Feb 01, 2016
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 […]
Dec 07, 2015
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 […]
Nov 07, 2015
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 […]
Jan 23, 2015
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 […]