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Founded in 1940 by Gene Winchester, QUIKRETE is still owned and operated by the Winchester family. QUIKRETE is set in its ways. The company makes more than 200 dry-packaged cement and concrete products, including concrete mixes, mortar mixes, and stuccos, as well as sand and aggregates. The products are sold to do-it-yourself consumers and professional contractors. QUIKRETE also makes coatings and concrete repair products, including vinyl patching mixes and tubed crack sealers. the company operates about 95 manufacturing plants throughout North, South, and Central America; it also has a research and development center in Atlanta.

Formed by Charles Shelly in 1938, the company was acquired in 2000 for $362 million by Oldcastle Materials, a unit of Ireland-based CRH. The acquisition helped boost Shelly's growth and now it produces nearly 9 million tons of asphalt each year. The Shelly Company has only scratched the surface of the road paving business. The company, which produces aggregates and asphalt for road surfacing, operates several aggregate facilities and asphalt plants in Ohio. Operations include quarries, sand and gravel pits, fixed and portable asphalt plants, and bitumen terminals. The Shelly Company is also a paving and road construction contractor. Other divisions manufacture cement and and ready mix concrete.

One of the largest suppliers of precast products in the US, the Spancrete Group is owned and operated by the third-generation of the Nagy family. The Spancrete Group spans the concrete spectrum. The company makes precast and prestressed concrete building products such as beams, risers, columns, wall panels, pipes, bridge girders, stairs, and more. Spancrete operates through its subsidiaries located in Wisconsin and Illinois as well as Florida. Its Spancrete Machinery unit manufactures equipment for producing concrete building materials, which it sells to customers throughout the world. Henry Nagy founded the enterprise as West Allis Concrete Products in 1946.

Thomas Armstrong has muscled its way into being one of the leading aggregates producers in the UK. Thomas Armstrong Holdings Ltd. also makes custom joinery, concrete blocks, and prestressed concrete (flooring, stairs, and panels) and operates a general construction business (residential, commercial, and industrial) and a timber division. Thomas Armstrong, a joiner, cabinetmaker, and wheelwright, founded the business in 1830. A century later the firm converted to a limited company. It has grown through acquisitions of companies such as ACP (Concrete) Ltd., William Rainford Holdings, Barnett's, Robinson's Concrete, and Tayban Developments. Thomas Armstrong has about 15 locations across the UK.

Thomas Concrete Industries, Inc. is one Georgia's largest producers of ready-mix concrete. Its products are used for commercial and residential projects and include high-strength, colored, exposed aggregate, and architectural concrete. The company operates about 50 plants in its home state and in North and South Carolina; it also has a fleet of mixer trucks. Thomas Concrete Industries is owned by Thomas Concrete Group AB, a Swedish conglomerate which also includes Fardig Betong and Thomas Beton. For Thomas Concrete Industries, the strength is in the mix.

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