About Vulcan

Charles Lincoln Ireland, a banker from Ohio, purchases Birmingham Slag and sends his sons, Glenn, Eugene and Barney to Birmingham to manage the new business.

Birmingham Slag becomes a major supplier to Tennessee Valley Authority projects.

Birmingham Slag enters into a joint venture with Lambert Brothers, Inc., one of the South’s largest aggregates businesses located in Knoxville, Tennessee. The strategic joint venture provides significant and profitable growth for Birmingham Slag.

Glenn Ireland’s son Charles is elected president of Birmingham Slag. Tremendous opportunities are envisioned under the Eisenhower administration’s Federal Highway Program. The company expands rapidly in order to become a major supplier of aggregates called for under the highway program.

Vulcan Materials Company asks stockholders to approve a merger with nine companies at the same time — Union Chemicals, Lambert Brothers and seven other aggregates or related corporations. Fortune magazine observes that the prospectus issued for the transaction is one of the most complex ever printed.

Bernard Monaghan becomes executive vice president of Vulcan Materials Company, and is later elected president and CEO of the Company. A decentralized organizational structure is developed creating nine operating divisions and a corporate office.

Vulcan builds a world-class chlorinated organic chemical plant on greenfield site in Geismar, Louisiana.

Vulcan forms Saudi Arabian joint venture to supply aggregates, asphalt and ready-mix.

Company-wide sales reach $783 million, ranking Vulcan Materials Company 367 in the Fortune 500.

Vulcan constructs and operates the first commercial-size membrane cell chloralkali facility in the U.S. at its Wichita, Kansas, plant.

Vulcan and its Mexican partner, Grupo ICA, form the Crescent Market Companies to produce high-quality limestone at a quarry on the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico for shipment to various markets primarily along the U.S. Gulf Coast. The joint venture includes a shipping company and a U.S.-based sales distribution company.

In its largest acquisition to date, Vulcan acquires the massive Reed Quarry, near Paducah, Kentucky. In addition to added capacity and reserves, the Reed acquisition gives Vulcan access to new stone markets via barge shipments along the Mississippi River and Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway.

Vulcan acquires Olin’s sodium chlorite business and constructs the largest U.S. sodium chlorite plant at the Wichita chloralkali facility.

Vulcan enters into a joint venture with Mitsui and begins construction of a new membrane chloralkali facility and a facility expanding production of ethylene dichloride at the Geismar, Louisiana plant.

Existing businesses in Vulcan’s Performance Systems Business Unit are combined to create Vulcan Chemical Technologies. Vulcan’s Chloralkali Business Unit retains the Vulcan Chemicals trade name.

Vulcan acquires Tarmac America’s aggregates operations, significantly extending the geographic scope of Vulcan’s operations in the eastern United States.

Divests Performance Chemicals assets, except the sodium chlorite business, to ALTIVIA Corporation, Kemira Oy and Lynx Chemical Group.

Vulcan celebrates its 50th anniversary as a publicly held company. In November, Vulcan acquires Florida Rock Industries, Inc. in the largest acquisition in Vulcan’s 50-year history.