Materials. "That search led us to Lind‐ say Goldberg, a private investment company out of New York."
A deal was struck between the Bakers and Lindsey Goldberg – a deal that also included Cort Dondero, a former Florida Rock employee, and Blue Water Worldwide, owned by the Griswold family – which led to the purchase in early 2010 of six aggregates opera‐ tions, three stone yards and a concrete block plant in Kentucky from Cemex.
"The plants were in good strategic lo‐ cations in Kentucky, had ample re‐ serves, and were already operating successfully," Ted Baker said. "They were all number one in their respec‐ tive markets, and had good safety records. It was a nice set of quarries, a great group of people – former Rinker and Cemex employees – and a perfect opportunity for us."
Going Bowling Green
One of the aggregates plants acquired in the deal, located in Bowling Green, Ky., was a successful operation that first opened in the 1950s. But Blue‐ grass knew for the plant to be success‐ ful in the future, it was going to need an upgrade.
"We broke ground last year on a new plant," Ted Baker said. "There were not a lot plants being built, so we were able to get a lot of interest from contrac‐ tors." The rebuild was headed up by a former Martin Marietta engineer named George Seamen, and Larry Bow‐ ers, a former Florida Rock engineer. Process Machinery was tapped to bring the new plant design to fruition.
The heart of the new 400+ tph plant is a Lippman heavy duty 36 x 50 jaw crusher. Material from the quarry face is delivered to the crusher by two Eu‐ clid 60‐ton haul trucks, which are first loaded by a Caterpillar 988G loader.
"Material from the jaw can be scalped to make rip rap or base if we want to," Ted Baker said. "Then a stacker moves material to two surge piles for asphalt stone and concrete stone."
Next, material is conveyed to a 4 ¼ Symons secondary cone crusher,
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The plant (above) features a Lippman crusher. Haul trucks dump into the primary (below).
