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Published Date: May 11, 2001
Company Name: Vulcan Materials Co.
Address: 1200 Urban Center Dr.
Birmingham, AL 35242
Main Telephone
Number: 205/298-3000
Internet Home
Page Address
(URL) www.vulcanmaterials.com
Chief Executive
Officer: Donald M. James
Chief Financial
Officer: Mark E. Tomkins
Investor Relations
Contact: Lamar Forsyth
Business number: 205/298-3191
E-mail address:
Public Relations
Contact: Joy Phillips
Business number: 205/298-3130
E-mail address: cr@vmcmail.com
Industry: Chemicals/Plastics, Manufacturing, Construction
Materials and Industrial Chemicals
Trading Symbol/
Exchange: NYSE:VMC
Market Makers:
Company description: Vulcan Materials Company Vulcan Materials Company NYSE: VMC Vulcan Materials Company (Vulcan) is principally engaged in the production, distribution and sale of construction materials. Vulcan is the largest producer of construction materials (primarily gravel, crushed stone, and sand) in the United is a producer of industrial materials and commodities with significant positions in two industries. Vulcan is the nation's foremost producer of construction aggregates, a major producer of other construction materials, and a leading chemicals manufacturer, supplying chloralkali and other industrial chemicals. Vulcan's construction materials group is the nation's leading producer of construction aggregates. The company operates over 300 aggregates plants and other production and distribution facilities which provide a diversified line of aggregates, other construction materials, and related services to all parts of the construction industry in 21 states and the District of Columbia District of Columbia, federal district (2000 pop. 572,059, a 5.7% decrease in population since the 1990 census), 69 sq mi (179 sq km), on the east bank of the Potomac River, coextensive with the city of Washington, D.C. (the capital of the United States). . During the past several years, more than half of Vulcan's aggregates production has been used in the construction and maintenance of highways, roads, and streets, and in other public works public works pl.n. Construction projects, such as highways or dams, financed by public funds and constructed by a government for the benefit or use of the general public. Noun 1. projects. The remainder has been used in the construction of housing, nonresidential buildings, commercial and industrial facilities; as railroad ballast, and in such non-construction uses as agriculture and various industrial applications. In addition to construction aggregates, Vulcan also operates facilities providing products and services such as asphalt mix, ready-mixed concrete, paving construction, and barge transportation. A significant producer of basic industrial and specialty chemicals, Vulcan's chemical segment is composed of two business units. Through its Chloralkali Business Unit, known as Vulcan Chemicals, it produces chlorine, caustic soda caustic soda: see sodium hydroxide. caustic soda Sodium hydroxide (NaOH), an inorganic compound. The alkalies called caustic soda and caustic potash (potassium hydroxide) are very important industrial chemicals, with uses in the manufacture of , hydrochloric acid hydrochloric acid: see hydrogen chloride. hydrochloric acid or muriatic acid Solution in water of hydrogen chloride (HCl), a gaseous inorganic compound. , potassium chemicals, and chlorinated chlorinated /chlo·ri·nat·ed/ (klor´i-nat?ed) treated or charged with chlorine. chlorinated charged with chlorine. chlorinated acids some, e.g. organic chemicals. Chlorine has thousands of applications but is best known for its use in purifying pu·ri·fy v. pu·ri·fied, pu·ri·fy·ing, pu·ri·fies v.tr. 1. To rid of impurities; cleanse. 2. To rid of foreign or objectionable elements. 3. drinking water drinking water supply of water available to animals for drinking supplied via nipples, in troughs, dams, ponds and larger natural water sources; an insufficient supply leads to dehydration; it can be the source of infection, e.g. leptospirosis, salmonellosis, or of poisoning, e.g. and in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals. Most of Vulcan's chlorine is used internally to produce chlorinated organic chemicals that are used as solvents and fluorocarbon fluorocarbon /flu·o·ro·car·bon/ (floor´o-kahr?b?n) any of the class of organic compounds consisting of carbon and fluorine only. (refrigerant re·frig·er·ant adj. 1. Cooling or freezing; refrigerating. 2. Reducing fever. n. 1. A substance, such as air, ammonia, water, or carbon dioxide, used to provide cooling either as the working substance of ) feedstocks. Through its Performance Chemical Business Unit, now known as Vulcan Performance Chemicals, Vulcan provides process chemicals for the pulp and paper and textile industries, chemicals and services to the municipal, industrial and environmental water management markets, and the custom manufacture of a variety of specialty chemicals. The products and services of Vulcan Performamce Chemicals are marketed worldwide. |
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