Dallas, Texas 09/13/2013 (Financialstrend) – Central Concrete Supply Co is a US Concrete Inc (NASDAQ:USCR) business unit. It is now celebrating the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opening. USCR is a front-runner in the delivery of low-CO2 concrete to San Francisco’s Bay Area. The company has also posted a photo-gallery that showcases the innovative concrete-solutions that were deployed for the construction project of the Bay Bridge. This visual album is called the “The Bay-Bridge, A Thirteen-Year Retrospective”. It provides the visitors with a very unique view of the enormity of this particular project.
The massive project
The Bay Bridge project had entailed numerous stringent requirements, like concrete durability, rapid-setting, CO2 reduction and pumpability. In order to meet all these requirements, the company engineered over 40 specialty-mixes which led to numerous new performance milestones.
These mixes had been optimized to deliver the extremely aggressive performance that had been specified for this massive, technically-challenging project. However, Central Concrete’s use of 25- 50% cement replacement materials reduced the bridge’s carbon footprint to a significant extent. The low-C02 mix-designs resulted in close to 60M pounds of CO2-reduction, in comparison to the conventionally used Portland cement concrete.
Thursday’s session
In Thursday’s trading, US Concrete Inc (NASDAQ:USCR) rose by 1.48%. The opening price of the company’s shares was $19.51 which climbed to an intraday high of $20.05 and then dropped to close at $19.93. More than 0.197 million shares were traded on Thursday and the average-volume of USCR shares traded over 30 days were 0.653. The company has a market capitalization of $281.98 million.
About the company
US Concrete Inc (NASDAQ:USCR) is a manufacturer of ready mixed concrete, pre-cast concrete products as well as various concrete-related products in specific markets in the U.S. As of 31 December 2012, it had 101 fixed as well as 11 portable ready mix concrete-plants and 7 aggregates facilities.
