Vulcan Materials Co.

History

Year	Detail
1909	Birmingham Slag Company, a family-owned construction materials company, is founded by Henry Badham and Solon Jacobs.
1916	Charles Lincoln Ireland, a banker from Ohio, purchased Birmingham Slag and sent his sons, Glenn, Eugene, and Barney, to Birmingham to manage the new business.
1944	Birmingham Slag entered a strategic joint venture with Lambert Brothers, Inc. in Knoxville, Tennessee. The joint venture provided significant and profitable growth for Birmingham Slag.
1956	Birmingham Slag Company merged with the Vulcan Detinning Company of Sewaren, New Jersey, and the new company was renamed Vulcan Materials Company.
1957	Vulcan’s Chemicals Division was formed due to the merger with Union Chemicals and Materials Corporation.
1980	Vulcan acquired the Port Edward, Wisconsin, chloralkali plant from BASF.
1987	Vulcan acquired White’s Mines, Inc. and affiliated companies, expanding Texas construction materials operations.
1990	Vulcan acquired the massive Reed Quarry near Paducah, Kentucky. The Reed acquisition gave Vulcan access to new stone markets via barge shipments along the Mississippi River and Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway.
1999	Vulcan acquired CalMat, Inc., expanding the Company’s aggregates operations into California, Arizona, and New Mexico. The acquisition made the Company a prominent aggregates and asphalt producer in California.
2000	Vulcan acquired Tarmac America’s aggregates operations, extending the geographic scope of the Company’s operations in the eastern United States.
2007	Vulcan Materials Company acquired Florida Rock Industries, Inc. The acquisition added aggregate facilities in Florida and Georgia, as well as cement and concrete operations in Florida, Georgia, and the Eastern Seaboard, including the District of Columbia.
2014	The Company completed the acquisition of one quarry in southern Oklahoma with rail distribution capabilities into Texas and two distribution yards in the Dallas area.
2015	The Company acquired three aggregate facilities, seven ready-mixed concrete operations in Arizona and New Mexico, and one aggregate facility in Tennessee.
2016	Vulcan launched MyVulcan.com, an online customer service center, giving customers direct control of their Vulcan accounts.
2017	The company acquired Shamrock Materials and entered the Northern California ready-mixed concrete market in the San Francisco Bay Area.
2018	The Company entered the Alabama asphalt market and construction paving business by acquiring all businesses owned by McCartney Construction Co, Inc., R.C. Smith Companies, Ltd, and DMG Equipment Company, Ltd.
2021	Vulcan Materials Company acquired U.S. Concrete, significantly expanding the Company's footprint to 22 states and four countries and increasing the geographic reach in metropolitan areas.