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Article: Tampa contractor purchases first plant.(Plant Matters)
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- Asphalt Contractor
- Article date:
- January 1, 2009
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Tampa contractor purchases first plant
By Greg Udelhofen, editor
The decision to invest millions of dollars in a new asphalt plant is not an easy one, but it was the right one for Tampa Pavement Constructors Inc.
As the largest paving company operating in the Tampa, FL market without an asphalt plant, Pete Hernandez, president of Tampa Pavement Constructors Inc., decided the time was right to make the investment to own his own plant.
"We had become Tampa's largest FOB (Freight Onboard) paving company without a plant and we wanted to sustain our volume, and hopefully position ourselves for future growth," says Hernandez, who started ...