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Study Group: Asphalt Experts(?)

Council Members in this Study Group: 64

This study group may include experts knowledgeable on topics such as aerospace & defense, building materials, chemicals, construction, oil & gas, timber & forest products, utilities & power generation, mining, agriculture, industrial equipment and transportation, among others.

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Leading Experts in this Study Group

Dwight "Rick" Tomlinson
Consultant
Rick Tomlinson Consulting

Rick Tomlinson is the Owner and Consultant at Rick Tomlinson Consulting, a firm providing consulting services in the building materials sector. Mr. Tomlinson has more than 30 years of experience with Georgia Pacific/BlueLinx. He has experience in managing sales operations, and coordinating lumber and...

David Willis
President
David Willis & Associates, LLC

David Willis is the President of David Willis and Associates, a firm providing consulting services in the building materials industry. Mr. Willis has more than 20 years of experience in the aggregates, cement, and concrete manufacturing industry. He also has experience in managing business development...

Russell Kennedy
President and Chief Executive Officer
Enap, Inc.

Russell Kennedy is the President and Chief Executive Officer at ENAP, a lumber and building materials cooperative. Mr. Kennedy is responsible for managing and developing building materials business to secure financing. He has experience in identifying and negotiating acquisitions for future growth in...

Gene Plavnik, President, Heat Technologies Inc Gene Plavnik
President
Heat Technologies Inc

Gene Plavnik is the President at Heat Technologies. Mr. Plavnik has more than 25 years of experience in managing heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC), boilers, water heaters,commercial and residential appliances, heat pumps, standby generators, lawn mowers,engine driven pumps, small engines...

Keith Jones
President
Material Advisory Group, Inc.

Keith Jones is the President of Materials Advisory Group, a consulting firm providing specialized financial and management services exclusively to companies in the construction materials, mining and industrial minerals industries. Mr. Jones specializes in conducting and managing merger and acquisition...

John Ackerman
President
Knox Resources Inc.

John Ackerman is the President and Owner of Knox Resources Inc. Knox is a consulting firm providing strategic planning, joint ventures and acquisitions planning and negotiations, market and business development, and project management services to small and mid-cap industrial minerals, specialty metals...

Kris Nielsen, Chairman and President, Pegasus Global Holdings, Inc.Kris Nielsen
Chairman and President
Pegasus Global Holdings, Inc.

Kris Nielsen, PhD, is the Chairman and President of Pegasus Global Holdings a firm that provides management consulting, risk management, and strategic consulting services thru its subsidiaries worldwide to owners (public and private), engineering and construction firms, and financial institutions. Dr....

Al Troner
President
Asia Pacific Energy Consulting, Inc.

Al Troner is President at Asia Pacific Energy Consulting, a firm providing consultancy services to oil and gas industry in Asia Pacific and Middle East, with a focus on China and India. Mr. Troner has more than 25 years of experience in developing product specifications, and managing marketing, refining,...

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Cemex Pricing Increase Overly Optimistic | 09-03-2008
Analysis of: Cemex Hikes Cement Prices By $25 Per Cubic Yard | www.aggregateresearch.com
Author: Keith Jones, President, Material Advisory Group, Inc.

Cemex announced an across-the-board $25/yard price increase for ready mixed concrete for all its operations in the U.S.  This increase is an overly simplistic plan for improving the profitability of the company in the U.S.  Cemex ignores the economics of supply and demand and the...

Multinational Cement Companies Continue Consolidation | 09-03-2008
Analysis of: Europe Slowdown Could Crumble Cement Makers | www.forbes.com
Author: Keith Jones, President, Material Advisory Group, Inc.

Acquisitions within the construction materials industry have continued in strong fashion, with multinational cement producers leading the way.  Bigger and bigger deals are being put together by the world's largest cement producers, both in the U.S. and abroad.  These producers...

Pressure continues to stop mining in Dade County Florida | 09-01-2008
Author: David Willis, President, David Willis & Associates, LLC

Pressure continues to reimpose the mining ban in the Dade County Florida Lake Belt. The Lake Belt accounts for nearly 50% of limestone produced in the State of Florida.

CEMEX Announces $25/CY Ready-Mix Concrete Price Increase in US on 10/1/08 | 08-14-2008
Analysis of: Cemex Hikes Cement Prices By $25 Per Cubic Yard | www.aggregateresearch.com
Author: GLG Expert Contributor

Cemex sent a letter to all "valued customers" on 8/4/08 informing them of a $25/CY price increase on all ready-mix concrete products in the United States. Cemex is making a bold move in a declining ready-mix market (both volumes and prices have been declining in the past year in various major markets...

Ethanol Complaints Are Only Temporary | 07-31-2008
Analysis of: In Gas-Powered World, Ethanol Stirs Complaints | www.nytimes.com
Author: Gene Plavnik, President, Heat Technologies Inc

Today's condition of the production of ethanol looks as it is not cost effective. Ethanol itself has some problems in the process of combustion in the internal combustion engine (ICE). But this is today. When the ethanol producers start providing market with desireable volumes of the fuel, the...

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