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Our company has grown steadily and significantly since its founding as a public company in the late 1950s – remaining the largest construction aggregates producer in America throughout that time. While the world has changed greatly in the last 60 years, our focus on ethically and sustainably running our business, so that it can thrive over time, has not.

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Environmental Stewardship

Protecting Our Wildlife
Not far from San Francisco, Vulcan’s Pilarcitos Quarry is home to nearly 200 acres of a protected nature preserve and various wildlife species. With proper oversight and controls, Vulcan is demonstrating that mining and wildlife can co-exist.
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Looking Out For Future Generations
When Vulcan retires its older trucks, it replaces them with new machinery that meets new air quality standards by decreasing exhaust emissions and limiting greenhouse admissions that ultimately reduces our carbon footprint.
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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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Wildlife Thrives
Vulcan is home to dozens of Wildlife Habitat Council (WHC) certified sites, including its Pleasanton facility in California. Executive Assistant Kathleen Goulet is charged with overseeing Pleasanton’s bird box program, which provides nesting areas for birds built by a local boy scout troop.
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Partnerships For Nature
Restoring land to a natural or economically usable state is a top priority at Vulcan. Well before mining is even completed, Vulcan begins the reclamation process. At Vulcan’s, Pleasanton and Azusa facilities in California, land is being restored to its natural setting.
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Pits To Property
Reclaiming land after mining takes meticulous planning and care to do it right. At its 24th Street facility in Phoenix, Vulcan’s plan to transform its 315-acre site into a business park will take more than two decades to complete.
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Phone Recycling Helps Gorillas
IT employees from the Vulcan Materials Company Western Division collected 600 old mobile phones for recycling. This helps decrease demand for coltan, mined in Africa and used to manufacture electronics. The mineral wreaks havoc on gorillas and other animals...
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Tiger Creek Mitigation Bank
Located just two miles from Vulcan’s fully operational Diamond Sand Plant in Lake Wales, Florida, is Tiger Creek Mitigation Bank.
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Ireland Sets Sail
Vulcan Materials Company and its wholly-owned subsidiary shipping company, “Vulica,” held a ceremony at the Blakeley Yard, Port of Mobile, Alabama to name the newest ship in Vulica’s fleet: The Ireland...
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Midden Mound Protected
The Midden Mound adjacent to Witherspoon Quarry was used by Native Americans to bury shells, animal bones and other items...
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