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Concrete & Aggregates

Thalle Industries adds concrete recycling location

Briarcliff Manor, New York-based Thalle Industries has launched Dakota Concrete in Montrose, New York, to expand access to concrete products for its customers in the Lower Hudson River Valley.

Thalle Industries is a supplier of virgin and recycled aggregates, asphalt products and brownfield fill for the construction industry. The company operates a quarry and asphalt plant in Fishkill, New York, and a recycling center it has trademarked as a Virtual Quarry in Elmsford, New York.

“Dakota Concrete fits with what we do, and the operation is a natural extension of our business,” says Thalle Industries CEO Glenn Pacchiana. “The concrete plant has a team of young people we want to help grow into valued members of the Thalle family.”

The launch of Dakota Concrete will allow Thalle Industries to open its second Virtual Quarry recycling center in Montrose, providing customers in New York’s Putnam and southern Dutchess counties a new recycling option.

“We are confident that this launch provides the opportunity to expand the concrete plant’s existing customer base while providing new opportunities to employees for their growth and careers,” Pacchiana says. “We are committed to working with our customers to ensure that we are providing the best quality products and services at competitive prices.”

A 350-ton-per-hour asphalt plant opened April 1 at the Fishkill site. Thalle upgraded the plant over the winter with what the company calls the latest burner and silo technologies. During the height of the paving season, the plant can load pavement trailers and trucks within three minutes.

Thalle Industries says it is handling orders and deliveries at the new recycling center in Montrose.

Meetings & Events

CDRA announces upcoming event venues

The Chicago-based Construction & Demolition Recycling Association (CDRA) has announced the dates and venues for two upcoming events: CDRA’s 2023 Mid-Year Meeting and C&D World 2024.

CDRA’s 2023 Mid-Year Meeting will be Oct. 4-5 at the headquarters of F&G Recycling in Waterbury, Connecticut. It will include a tour of the F&G Recycling/USA Hauling & Recycling facility in Wilbraham, Massachusetts, as well as a CDRA board of directors meeting.

The board meeting will be Oct. 4, and the tour will take place the following day.

CDRA says it is “grateful to everyone at F&G for graciously offering to host our 2023 board meeting.”

C&D World 2024 will run from Jan. 31 to Feb. 2 at the Hyatt Regency Coconut Point Resort and Spa in Bonita Springs, Florida, near Fort Myers, Florida. “Besides having the usual top-notch information sessions, Southwest Waste is graciously allowing attendees to tour its local mixed C&D [construction and demolition] operation,” CDRA says.

CDRA will hold a board of directors meeting Jan. 31, and the following day will include C&D World programming and a fundraising event. Feb. 1, the C&D World program will conclude, followed by the tour of Fort Myers-based Southwest Waste’s C&D facility.

“The decision to put the CDRA’s Annual Meeting in the Fort Myers area was made in order to show support for the region hit hard by Hurricane Ian, as well as the opportunity to tour a modern construction material processing plant,” the association says.

CDRA describes both events as being designed to provide “invaluable opportunities for networking, knowledge sharing and collaboration.”

More information about the events can be found at www.cdrecycling.org/events.

Mergers & Acquisitions

GFL subsidiary acquires Ontario roadbuilding business

Aecon Group has sold its Aecon Transportation East (ATE) roadbuilding services, aggregates and other materials supply businesses to Green Infrastructure Partners (GIP) for $173 million.

The former Aecon division’s main business is maintaining infrastructure in the province of Ontario, where ATE and GIP are based.

As reported by World Highways, GIP is the renamed GFL Infrastructure Group, which is a subsidiary of Vaughan, Ontario-based GFL Environmental.

GFL is the fourth-largest diversified environmental services company in North America, providing nonhazardous solid waste management, soil remediation and liquid waste management services in Canada and the U.S.

GIP provides civil infrastructure services through its 33 asphalt plants, eight concrete plants, access to more than 250 aggregate sites, an asphalt cement terminal in eastern Ontario and more than 3,000 employees across the company’s operations.

After GIP was formed in the second quarter of 2022, it acquired Coco Paving, which boasted a portfolio of aggregate, asphalt, concrete and cement sites across Canada. The purchase of Coco Paving added eight aggregate quarries to supply internal and external customers, eight asphalt plants and approximately 1,000 employees to GIP.

“We are excited to add ATE’s vertically integrated roadbuilding solutions business in Ontario to GIP’s existing platform, further solidifying the breadth of our services to support public infrastructure from our operations in Ontario, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Quebec,” says Patrick Dovigi, CEO of GFL and the executive chair of GIP, in a news release announcing the acquisition.

“We saw a tremendous opportunity to enhance the scale and service offerings around our vertically integrated Coco Paving platform, with the self-perform capabilities initially added from GFL’s infrastructure division, and to accelerate our growth through acquisition, further consolidating GIP’s position as one of Canada’s premier suppliers of critical infrastructure maintenance services. This acquisition is one of those great opportunities.”

Throughout the past 20 years, GIP has performed more than $370 million worth of work for the Ontario Ministry of Transportation along the Highway 401 freeway corridor from Windsor to London, Ontario.

Toronto-headquartered Aecon Group is a Canadian construction and infrastructure development company that delivers integrated solutions to private- and public-sector clients through its construction segment in the civil, urban transportation, nuclear, utility and industrial sectors. The company provides project development, financing, investment and management services.