Vulcan Materials Company - Northern Concrete Division

Each Northern Concrete Division company maintains a Technical Services Department. Technical Services is responsible for monitoring constituent materials and production processes as well as the final, ready-mixed concrete product. Quality control and quality assurance services are provided using the most recently approved ASTM standards including, but not limited to, ASTM C31, C138, C143, C172, C231, C470, C511, C617, C1064, C1077, C1231, C78, C192, C403, C42, C157, C469, and C803.

All laboratory services are supervised by the Technical Services Manager and are provided under the technical direction of a registered Professional Engineer.

The Springfield, Virginia laboratory is operated in accordance with ASTM C1077 and is inspected by the Cement and Concrete Reference Laboratory.

All Northern Concrete Division technicians are ACI Field Testing Technician Grade I certified and many hold additional ACI and municipal certifications. Technical Services employees are regularly trained, evaluated and reviewed on proper ASTM procedures.

Springfield, Virginia - 800-572-2045

History of Virginia Concrete Company 1938 - Present

Virginia Concrete Company was formed in 1938 as a division of the sand & gravel portion of Northern Virginia Construction Company in Alexandria, Virginia. At that time, Virginia Concrete Company maintained 2 and 3 cubic yard horizontal mixers. The mixers were very different than the ten-yard trucks used today.

In 1945, Virginia Concrete Company was purchased from Northern Virginia Construction Company. At the time of purchase it consisted of 3 ready-mix plants and 13 trucks. The plant locations were Shirlington Road in Arlington, Telegraph Road in Alexandria and Edsall Road in Springfield, Virginia. Today, there are 23 plants in operation, which are supported by approximately 400 employees in driving, fleet maintenance, plant maintenance, dispatch and administrative staffing positions.

Virginia Concrete Company was sold to The Lehigh Cement Company in 1965 and in 1972 was sold to Florida Rock Industries, Inc.

Cardinal Concrete Company was incorporated in 1978. In 1990, Cardinal Concrete acquired the ready-mix portion of Falcon Materials. In February 2004, Virginia and Cardinal combined as Cardinal-Virginia Concrete Company.

As Virginia Concrete Company grew, the Company recognized the importance of not only being an environmentally responsible neighbor but also an active and visible member in the community.

Virginia Concrete Company supports the community by providing scholarships annually for the past 45 years to local high school graduates through the Vulcan Materials Company Foundation. Thus far, scholarships have been awarded to over 170 well deserving students including Fairfax, Alexandria and Arlington students.

The Foundation also contributes to various charities in the area including youth clubs and Fairfax County Crime Solvers. Additionally, Virginia Concrete Company has supported the Adopt-a-Highway project, Habitat for Humanities, the Christmas in April program, various county school programs and the U.S. Marine’s collection of Toys for Tots.

Virginia Concrete Company believes that employees are the driving force for our company’s success. To recognize the wealth of talented and dedicated individuals on our team, awards are presented yearly. The awards include but are not limited to Years of Service Awards, Plant of the Year, as well as Employee and Driver of the Year.

On November 16, 2007 Florida Rock Industries was acquired by Vulcan Materials Company. The merger of these two companies created an even stronger and more geographically diversified organization with operations in key, high-growth markets nationwide.

Edgewood, Maryland - (410) 679-0500

History of S & G Concrete

The Arundel Corporation was founded in 1919 as a group of businesses combining shipbuilding, sand and gravel, contracting, construction and tug and barge operations. In 1930, Arundel went into partnership with Walter and Bonsal Brooks to form the Arundel Brooks Concrete Company with a plant on the Baltimore Harbor in Fells Point.

The downtown building boom in Baltimore was accelerating and Arundel Brooks was a fast growing concrete company. The Brooks brothers sold their stake in the company, Arundel became sole owner and it soon had another concrete plant set up in south Baltimore at Brooklyn.

In the 1960s, Arundel put another plant at its Greenspring Quarry in Baltimore County. With these three primary sites, Arundel supplied most of the concrete for buildings that compose the Baltimore skyline.

S & G Concrete was incorporated in the late '70s in Wilmington, North Carolina as a ready-mix and pre-stressed business. Arundel acquired S & G in 1981, two years prior to acquiring the Bowles Company in Richmond, VA (later to become Tidewater Materials). Back in Baltimore, Arundel saw the population growth moving out to the suburbs. With excess equipment in North Carolina, they opened a ready-mix plant under the name S & G Concrete in a sand and gravel pit in suburban Harford County in Edgewood. Soon, S & G grew to the southern suburbs (Odenton) and west (Finksburg).

Florida Rock Industries purchased the Arundel Corporation in 1988 and sold the North Carolina ready-mix business. Slowly, Florida Rock saw the ready-mix market in Baltimore eroding away. They began closing facilities, and eventually operated only Brooklyn up until 2000. S & G had begun to grow its market share in the 1990s with steady construction in the outer counties. A plan was made to merge the companies and they became S & G Concrete with the closing of Brooklyn. Many of the talented and experienced employees from Arundel now make up a major part of the S & G team.

In 2007 Vulcan Materials Company purchased Florida Rock Industries and S&G concrete became part of Vulcan Materials Northern Concrete Division.

Today S&G operates six ready-mix locations serving the central Maryland markets and is poised to service the upcoming growth needs for BRAC in Anne Arundel and Harford Counties.

Williamsburg, Virginia - (757) 591-9340

History of TCS Materials

	TCS Materials was established in 2001 as the result of a merger between three sister companies within Florida Rock Industries. The companies were Tidewater Materials Corporation of Richmond, VA, Custom Concrete of Williamsburg, VA, and Sadler Materials Corporation of Chesapeake, VA. Sadler Materials Corporation was established by Mr. Jimmy Sadler in 1964. Mr. Sadler retired from Southern Materials Company in 1960 at the age of 48. Bored with retirement, Mr. Sadler plunged back into the sand and gravel business.
Ready-mix facilities included the Little Creek and London Bridge plants in Virginia Beach. The two-thousand acre Turkey Island Farm facility assured material supply for both locations and the Richmond market. Five years later Sadler Materials Corporation purchased Friend Sand and Gravel in Hopewell, VA. This acquisition expanded Sadler’s market share in the ready-mix business, with one facility in Hopewell. Mr. Sadler continued to expand his market share and, in 1981, sold Sadler Materials to the Arundel Corporation.
Tidewater Materials Corporation was founded by Mr. E.G. Bowles in 1966. Bowles' concrete plant was located five miles from downtown Richmond at Deepwater Terminal. Mr. Bowles later formed a subsidiary aggregates company, Tidewater Quarries, to supply his facility and service the greater Richmond and down-stream markets in Chesapeake with clean stone for various projects. Seventeen years later in 1983, Arundel Corporation acquired Tidewater Materials and Tidewater Quarries.
Custom Concrete was established in 1974 by Bill Schreiber and Axel Nixon. Prior to establishing Custom Concrete, Bill owned a local heating fuel business while Axel owned and operated a small curb and gutter placement concrete company. Custom’s first concrete plant was erected in Williamsburg, VA. The company had a fleet of three trucks. Custom expanded its operations in 1978 with the acquisition of Parkview Supply in Newport News, VA. Pressured by the lack of raw materials, Custom purchased 427 acres in Charles City, VA and constructed a new sand and gravel facility in 1981 to service plants throughout the Peninsula. Two years later, Custom opened its third facility in Hampton, VA.
Custom continued to grow its market share over the next sixteen years and in 1999 sold Custom Concrete and Custom Sand & Gravel to Florida Rock Industries. In 2007 Florida Rock was purchased by Vulcan Materials Company and TCS Materials is now part of the Northern Concrete Division of Vulcan Materials. Today, TCS Materials operates fourteen plants from Richmond, Virginia to Virginia Beach, serving residential, commercial and highway projects throughout the region. TCS Materials' main office is located in Williamsburg, Virginia.


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