Unicon expands concrete pumping business

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 152 KB
• Volume: 2000
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1359-6128
• DOI: 10.1016/s1359-6128(00)90271-4

✦ Synopsis

With the acquisition of the assets of Concrete Placement Inc (CPI) in the USA, Unicon America Inc has acquired another major ready-mix concrete pumping business operating in North and South Carolina. CPI will be integrated into Unicon America's existing subsidiary, Carolina Concrete Pumping Inc (CCP), making it North and South Carolina's largest concrete pumping operation with an annual turnover of DKr 125 million.

Umcon Group entered the American concrete pumping market in September 1998 b) acquiring CCP, one of America's largest concrete pumping businesses. Only about 25% 01' all ready-mix concrete sup-. plied in the l!SA is pumped, but this percentage is expect& to rise in the coming years.