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Bridging the Student Digital Divide

We’ve always been a steadfast supporter and partner in promoting and advancing student learning in our communities. So as local schools across our footprint struggle with an onslaught of closures, health and safety issues, increased costs and revenue losses due to the COVID-19 pandemic, our local teams are partnering with the Vulcan Materials Company Foundation to help ease some of the burden for schools and their students. 
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Welcome to Medina

Vulcan’s newest quarry, Medina Quarry in Hondo, Texas primarily serves the San Antonio and Houston markets with products aggregate and concrete used for projects that include roads, bridges, businesses, homes and schools.
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Loop 202

When the State of Arizona needed aggregates and asphalt to construct its largest freeway project in state history, Vulcan answered the call. The new Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway in Phoenix, which opened in 2019, is a 22-miles expressway that shortens commuter times by connecting the East and West Valleys and brings significant economic opportunities to the area.
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Grand Opening

Joined by over 150 neighbors, stakeholders and customers, Vulcan’s Southeast Division celebrated the grand opening of its new aggregates quarry in Lexington County, South Carolina by hosting an open house. The open house welcomed members of the community into the facility where they met with the Vulcan team and asked questions. Those who attended were able to take a tour of the quarry, look at equipment, learn how Vulcan uses science and technology in our daily operation and enjoy a free lunch in the pop-up Quarry Café.
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Supporting First Responders

For the past three years, Vulcan’s facility in Chula Vista, California, has partnered with their local first responders in its Quarry Crusher Run, an annual charity race that offers the opportunity to run or walk inside a quarry.
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Environmental Stewardship

Sac-Tun Leads by Example in Social and Environmental Sustainability

Vulcan Material Company’s Mexico operation, Sac-Tun, near Playa del Carmen in the State of Quintana Roo, is the company’s largest quarry and employs more people (450) than any of Vulcan’s other quarrying operations.  Sac-Tun is the largest non-tourism employer in Quintana Roo.  Our employees, who come from all parts of Mexico, earn more than three times the minimum wage paid in Quintana Roo and are covered by comprehensive health, retirement and other employee benefit plans.  
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Vulcan Vinny

A few years ago, Vulcan’s Sun Valley, California facility donated the blue hawk costume to the school and the students named it Vulcan Vinny.
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Committed to Customers

Quality products drive quality projects. And it’s quality work - managed through a highly detailed quality control (QC) process - that has been Vulcan’s hallmark for decades.
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