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Vulcan Aggregates Facilities and Markets

Reed Quarry in Paducah, Kentucky Vulcan is the largest producer of construction aggregates in the United States. From 127 permanent crushed stone plants and 93 other production and distribution facilities, Vulcan provides a diversified line of aggregates, other construction materials and related services to all parts of the construction industry in 17 states. Vulcan’s principal product, crushed stone, is used in virtually all forms of construction.
Production Facilities

As of the end of 1996, the Company, either directly or through joint ventures, operated 127 permanent crushed stone plants, 12 sand and gravel plants, four slag plants and three plants producing other aggregates. In addition to its aggregates production facilities, Vulcan operates 35 distribution yards located in selected market areas for the sale of stone and other aggregates. Other products and services include 16 asphalt plants, two emulsified asphalt plants, five ready-mixed concrete plants and another 16 locations related to service, repair and transportation operations.

Quarry in Racine ,Wisconsin loads railcars for shipment to Lake Bluff Sales Yard. While the Company’s facilities are principally located in the United States, Vulcan also is a 50% partner in an international joint venture called the Crescent Market Companies. Vulcan and Grupo ICA, one of Mexico’s leading diversified industrial companies, operate several jointly owned entities which produce, ship and market a full line of crushed stone products. The joint venture ships high quality stone from a large quarry on the Yucatan Peninsula to ten distribution facilities located along the U.S. Gulf Coast and directly to customers located in central areas.
Quarry in Racine ,Wisconsin loads railcars for shipment to Lake Bluff Sales Yard. Stone shipments from Mexico are made on two joint venture owned Panamax class ships with self-unloading capability. The joint venture also operates two aggregates production facilities in the Tampa area. Shipments and profitability continued to increase in 1996. Prior to developing the Crescent Market Companies, Vulcan served only eight counties along the U.S. Gulf Coast. Vulcan today serves 66 such counties with a full range of crushed stone products from the joint venture’s quarries in Florida and Mexico.
Vulcan’s domestic and international operations serve markets in 17 states. Permanent crushed stone plants are located in 14 states. The Company has no production facilities in Louisiana but the state is served by sales and distribution yards in New Orleans and Shreveport. Additionally, Vulcan serves southern Maryland and counties of Missouri that are adjacent to the Mississippi River from quarries in Virginia and Kentucky, respectively.

Vulcan and the Environment

Vulcan's Construction Materials operations are second to none in the industry with respect to safety, health, and environmental stewardship and community relations. Whether in the area of safety, occupational health, quarry beautification or wildlife habitat enhancement, Vulcan's programs have set the standard for the industry. Vulcan firmly believes that future success in the aggregates industry increasingly will be dependent upon strong performance in these areas. Each of Vulcan's divisions has implemented programs designed to monitor conditions at company facilities, promote compliance with relevant laws and regulations, and develop practices and procedures for the protection of environmental resources.

Vulcan continued to lead the stone industry in plant beautification results in 1995. Vulcan plants received 25 of the 106 beautification awards given by the National Stone Association, including Quarry of the Year awards in all three categories.

V ulcan participates in a program to develop enhanced wildlife habitats at many of its quarries. This program is sponsored and sanctioned by the Wildlife Habitat Council, which is a non-profit organization comprised of corporate and environmental groups set up to help companies inventory wildlife species on corporate lands and then to provide habitat enhancements for those species. Currently, 30 Vulcan sites have been certified, nine sites are pending and initial plans are in place for several others.

In 1991, the National Stone Association initiated its environmental Eagle Awards program to encourage and recognize exemplary environmental quarrying performance. Vulcan has received a large share of these awards to date.

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