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Maintaining reliable customer service: Vulcan Materials replaces its aging batch plant to ensure...

By Udelhofen, Greg
Publication: Asphalt Contractor
Date: Saturday, April 1 2006

As a materials supplier, Vulcan Materials' business reputation has been built on its success to always have what customers want, when they want it and at a competitive price. That's why the company's Southwest District in Texas maintains two operating asphalt plants at its two San Antonio quarry locations.

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"We're not a construction company, we supply aggregate and asphalt materials to contractors and other customers who actually do the work," says Harry Bush, manager of technical services for Vulcan's

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