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Article: New plant addresses market growth, mega project.(Plant Matters)
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- Asphalt Contractor
- Article date:
- February 1, 2008
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New plant addresses market growth, mega project
By Greg Udelhofen, editor
To minimize disruption to production demand, Florida asphalt producer/contractor installs new plant in 19 days
After completing a major highway project in Central Florida in 1999, Ajax Paving Industries decided to move the portable 1984 Cedarapids 160-tph Standard Havens Low Rider to the South Ft. Meyers area (San Carlos Park) to test the market. The plant was never shut off, according to Robert Ray, asphalt plant manager for Ajax's Florida Division.
"It's been a very good plant for us and we would run from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. five days and sometime six days a week, ...