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Ballenger Paving Division of APAC-Tennessee, Inc., a division of Oldcastle Materials Inc., has been involved in the concrete paving industry since its inception in 1927. A founding member of ACPA, Ballenger was recently featured in Concrete Pavement Progress magazine for its tradition of innovation in the concrete paving industry. Ballenger utilized a portable RexCon Model S Dual Tilt Drum Concrete Paving Plant to reconstruct I-95, a project for which it received an Excellence in Concrete Paving award in 2005. Read more about the company’s history and the changes it is witnessing in the concrete paving industry in the Q3 2013 issue of Concrete Pavement Progress.

Cold Spring Construction mobilized a brand new RexCon Model S with a Horizontal Mixer to pave over 15 miles of two-lanecover about 300 acres, Wells Concrete Products upped the ante in architectural and structural precast/prestressed. Acting as its own general contractor, Wells Concrete used a RexCon portable batch plant to supply material for the main production and finishing building slabs and their double tee wall and roof members. The Albany plant enclosures are built with 36-ft double tee wall panels and 73-ft double tee roof members, all fabricated on site using a form now in the structural bay.

In 2005 the Illinois Tollway Authority launched its Open Roads for a Faster Future initiative. The $6.3 billion road building project was labeled a congestion-relief program for northern Illinois and especially the Chicago metro area. For the Chicago concrete industry, the fast-paced project provided a great market expansion opportunity. Supplying the