Work on National Cement’s new five-stage preheater-precalciner continues, rising some 400 feet over the existing Ragland plant. The equipment being installed represents today's best available technology and when operational, will efficiently heat the...

An innovative lower carbon cement known as Portland-Limestone Cement (PLC) can reduce your carbon footprint by 10% and this advanced product, engineered with higher limestone content, is readily available in Southern California. National Cement...

National Ready Mix is riding greener, lighter, and more efficient with their new fleet of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) trucks. The CNG trucks and fueling stations at National’s Vernon, California plant is one of the many ways the ready mix company...

Joe “Barnie Lee” Dickinson died July 26, 2020 at age 60. Remembering Joe Dickinson The unexpected July 2020 death of Joe Dickinson, head of Kirkpatrick and Walker Concrete, continues to affect the Alabama and Georgia ready mix operations as well...

A new blending silo soars high above National Cement’s longtime Ragland, Alabama operation, the first major phase to be completed during the company’s $250-million expansion. National is adding a new high-tech kiln line to their southeastern operation,...

The National Cement Company of Alabama joined with state and local officials to break ground on a $250 million kiln expansion project first announced in December 2019. Alabama Commerce Secretary Greg Canfield called the expansion the “largest capital...

Committed to leadership and innovation in a changing world, the National Ready Mixed Concrete Company is the first concrete producer in the Los Angeles market to implement a set of digital applications to streamline generation of Environmental Product...