Vulcan Materials Company (nyse: VMC) is an American company based in Birmingham, Alabama. It is principally engaged in the production, distribution and sale of construction materials. Vulcan is the largest producer of construction materials, primarily gravel, crushed stone, and sand, and employs approximately 12,000 people at over 400 facilities. Vulcan serves 22 states, the District of Columbia, Mexico, Canada, Bahamas and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Vulcan's Crescent Market project led to construction of a large quarry and deep water seaport on the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico, just south of Cancún. This quarry supplies Tampa, New Orleans, Houston, and Brownsville, Texas, as well as other Gulf coast seaports, with crushed limestone via large 62,000-ton self-discharging ships.
History
Vulcan Materials Company was founded in 1909 as the Birmingham Slag Company by Solon Jacobs and Henry Badham in Birmingham, Alabama. They recognized the potential to repurpose blast furnace slag from the local steel industry into materials for road construction and railroad ballast. The company was later acquired by the Ireland family in 1916, who expanded it.[3]