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CRH Americas Materials
North American subsidiary of CRH plc; operates 1,300+ aggregate, asphalt, concrete, and paving locations across US and Canada; third-largest US aggregate producer
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Aggregates
40%Asphalt + Paving
35%Ready-Mixed Concrete
15%Cement (Ash Grove)
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Origin2023
CRH plc was formed in 1970 by the merger of two Irish building materials companies — Cement Limited (established 1936 with Irish government support to produce domestic cement) and Irish Ropes. CRH began acquiring US building materials companies in 1978, starting with a small Ohio brick manufacturer. Over the following four decades, CRH completed over 800 acquisitions globally, assembling the world's largest building materials platform through disciplined regional market consolidation. The OldCastle Materials brand (aggregates, asphalt) and Ash Grove Cement ($3.5B acquisition, 2018) are the main US pillars. CRH is a case study in the theory that aggregates and building materials are permanently local businesses — their value comes from controlling geographically fixed assets (quarries, cement plants) near population centers — but that a global capital allocator can systematically acquire them. An Irish company owns approximately 12% of US crushed stone supply primarily through a strategy of identifying and buying family-owned regional quarrying companies before US competitors noticed their value.
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