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South Ready Mix - Full Steam Ahead!
Chris Manatt

We got off to a slow start this summer due to the seemingly constant rain throughout May and June, but now the plants are in full swing and still have plenty of work on the books for the rest of the year. After the slow start, the Southern plants excelled in July and August, thus many of the plants are ahead of last year in cubic yards year to date.

Grinnell has been having a banner year, largely due to Monsanto building a production facility just east of town. As of today, September 6^th, roughly 17,000 cubic yards have been delivered to the Monsanto project.

    Belle Plaine currently has produced over twice as many yards as last year at this time. Reed has been busy this year pulling levers, and delivering concrete to a large project at Pierce Lumber.

    Tama is busy producing ready mix as well as pumping and selling sand to several large projects in the area. Tama’s large ready mix jobs include a paving job at the Meskwaki settlement, several box culverts along highway 30 and a new bank in Toledo.

    Wally has been busy in Victor hauling concrete to the new elementary school in Brooklyn and several projects in the Brooklyn industrial park.

    Traer is right on pace with last year and has several projects yet to do. Vernon’s larger projects include Traer street paving, several hog confinements and a box culvert.

Tipton is having a great year so far and with the work Rory has yet to do, it may be a record year. Tipton has already produced for two paving jobs and is scheduled to supply yet another one later this month.

    Vinton is very close to last years pace. Vinton’s summer/fall projects include interstate patching, hog confinements and a county bridge.

    Newhall is another plant that is having a year well ahead of last year. Newhall has had a busy year with residential work as well as a county bridge.

    Grundy Center has many projects ongoing including several box culverts and hog confinements.

    The July letting was a great success for the ready mix division. We got the concrete on several bridges, culverts and grading projects along the new Highway 520 in Grundy County. We have put up a portable dry batch plant in Wellsburg, managed by Eric Brashaw, to produce for those projects. The total yardage for the Grundy jobs is 11,500 cubic yards, most of which will be delivered next spring.

    Please finish the year working safely, and also, please wear your
hard hats!

updated by Jamie (9-12-01)