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ock Products is very pleased to be a partner with the National
Stone, Sand and Gravel Association (NSSGA) in supporting its
Young Leaders.
At this year's AGG1 show, we joined with Superior Industries in spon-
soring the Young Leaders luncheon speaker, Dave Turin of the hit TV
show "Gold Rush." It was a memorable speech, and one that everyone
in attendance appreciated.
The NSSGA Young Leaders provides an annual conference for industry
professionals 40 years of age and younger to develop leadership and
management skills, address industry positions, build a national net-
work of industry professionals, exchange ideas, and discuss areas of
mutual interest that will help them and their companies become more
successful in the aggregates industry.
At the recently held Young Leaders conference in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.,
we sponsored the Mark S. Walsh Leadership Award. This year, it was
presented to Dennis Coker of Natural Resource Partners. Our National
Sales Director Sean Carr was on-hand to do the honors.
You can read our interview with Dennis on page 10. He makes a very
good point that one of the main benefits of the Young Leaders Annual
Conference is the fact that the group is made up of sales, operations,
and finance professionals from public companies, private companies
and has both producers and suppliers.
Also in this issue is a special Frac Sand Insider Resource Guide. This
guide contains a very detailed analysis of U.S. geography that illus-
trates where material suitable for frac sand production in located.
It also contains the most detailed analysis published to date of national
frac sand production. We would like to thank the market experts at the
U.S. Geological Survey for working with us on this. We hope you find it
interesting and useful.
Finally, a correction from our last issue. My interview with Tom Hill of
Summit Materials featured a great picture of Tom Hill – however it was
the Tom Hill of Vulcan Materials, not the
Tom Hill of Summit Materials. While
they do know each other and look a lot
like twin brothers, they are not, and I
apologize for the error.
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