Skip to main content

Share This Post

By Todd Short, COO – YTEXAS
April 10, 2017

Strengthens vertical integration into fine aggregates in high demand New York market

EULESS, TX — (Marketwired) — 04/10/17 — U.S. Concrete, Inc. (NASDAQ: USCR) (the “Company” or “U.S. Concrete”) announced today that it has strengthened its aggregates capacity and ability to supply their New York City ready-mixed concrete operations by acquiring the assets of Corbett Aggregates Companies, LLC (“Corbett”), a premier provider of high quality concrete sand located in Quinton, New Jersey. The acquisition furthers U.S. Concrete’s vertical integration strategy and self-sufficiency in internal aggregates consumption.

Corbett features approximately 401 acres of land with over 35 million tons of proven reserves. These high quality fine aggregates will support U.S. Concrete’s family of businesses in the New York metropolitan market and its third-party customers.

In connection with the deal, U.S. Concrete was assigned a long-term lease with the South Jersey Port Corporation for an export dock located approximately six miles from the aggregates operation, as well as the exclusive right to move coarse and fine aggregates through the North Shore Terminal located on Staten Island, New York.

Accordingly, U.S. Concrete will use its aggregates import docks located in the New York Metropolitan Area, which are operated by its wholly-owned subsidiary New York Sand and Stone, for distribution of the sand. The ability to move these materials by water reduces the Company’s dependency on third party suppliers and helps alleviate metropolitan traffic congestion by taking a large number of trucks off an overused road network.

“The acquisition of Corbett meets our strategic objective of increasing self-sufficiency in our internal aggregates sourcing especially in an area of the country with quickly depleting fine aggregates resources,” said Bill Sandbrook, President and CEO of U.S. Concrete. “Additionally, the ability to ship concrete sand to our metropolitan New York City markets by water is another strategic benefit to this acquisition as trucking becomes ever more expensive due to traffic congestion and increasing bridge tolls. This acquisition will have an immediate positive impact on our operating results and we look forward to continuing to identify other growth opportunities in our targeted markets.”

About U.S. Concrete, Inc.

U.S. Concrete serves the construction industry in several major markets in the United States through its two business segments: ready-mixed concrete and aggregate products. The Company has 155 standard ready-mixed concrete plants, 16 volumetric ready-mixed concrete facilities, and 17 producing aggregates facilities. During 2016, U.S. Concrete sold approximately 8.1 million cubic yards of ready-mixed concrete and approximately 5.6 million tons of aggregates. For more information on U.S. Concrete, visit www.us-concrete.com.

I am text block. Click edit button to change this text. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut elit tellus, luctus nec ullamcorper mattis, pulvinar dapibus leo.