Oldcastle Materials

The company acquired Tilcon in 1996.[36][37] Oldcastle Materials purchased Central Pre-Mix,[38] Four Corners Materials,[16] Inland Asphalt, and Interstate Concrete in 1997.[39] The company acquired Thompson-McCully Co. in mid 1999,[40] and Acme Materials & Construction in 2000.[39][41] In March 2002, Oldcastle Materials agreed to purchase US Aggregates operations in Alabama, Arizona, Nevada, Tennessee, and Utah, Arizona, for $140 million.[42]

In 2006, the company acquired Egge Sand & Gravel.[43][44] Oldcastle Materials took a fifty percent equity stake in American Cement Company for $50 million, marking Oldcastle Materials' entry into the U.S. cement industry and its first investment in Florida.[45] The company also purchased Ashland Inc.'s paving and construction business for $1.3 billion.[46][47] Oldcastle Materials purchased McMinn's Asphalt in 2007, and subsequently made the company part of its Pennsy Supply subsidiary.[48][49] Oldcastle Materials also purchased Eugene Sand & Gravel in 2007.[50] The company acquired asphalt and concrete assets of the Wheeler Companies (Ironhorse Asphalt, Texas Concrete Materials, Wheeler Coatings Asphalt, and Wheeler Coatings SA) in late 2009 for an undisclosed amount.[11] The merged company became known as APAC Texas-Wheeler Companies.[51]

Oldcastle Materials acquired Central Supply Inc. and Central Trucking, based in Clarksburg, West Virginia, in November 2011.[52] Some of Central Pre-Mix's assets were sold to American Rock Products in December 2014.[53] Boxley Materials' West Virginia operations, which included a concrete plant trucking business, and quarries,[54] were sold to Oldcastle Materials in late 2015.[55] Mulzer Crushed Stone was acquired in March 2017 and had approximately 600 employees in three U.S. states at the time.[18][56] Spokane Rock Products had approximately 120 employees when Oldcastle Materials purchased the company in March 2018.[4][57]