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The Platinum Safety Team has completed its first official plant review and that plant was at Dunn Precast. Everyone at Dunn was proactive, very open to questions and responsive to safety suggestion or corrections. We could not have asked for a better place to start! It was a very good two days with a lot...

CP&P “Kicked off” Precast Days with two back to back events. Friday September 23, the Ashland Precast facility hosted a “Partner Appreciation Day” that had over 65 attendees. Everyone had the opportunity to tour the Ashland plants, including the area’s only PERFECT automated manhole facility. A BBQ lunch was served and several partners donated numerous...

J.S.G. Corporation recently completed The Outfall Pipe Replacement and Shipping Trailer Lot project for WestRock in King William County, VA. The drainage on the project consisted of new 42 inch diameter reinforced concrete (RCP) outfall pipe and structures as well as approximately 600 linear feet of new 42 inch diameter pipe to serve as storm...

The Rincon Plant has been undergoing maintenance to replace electrical wiring, lights and to update equipment. Vendors such as JMS Electric, ACT Batch Controls, Hawkeye and others have been working hard to get the plant back up and running. Rincon’s Hawkeye VUP will be producing concrete pipe after a mid-June installation of the new control...

Josh Reno – Plant Manager – Chesapeake, VA In May, Josh Reno joined the Chesapeake Pipe team as plant manager. Josh joined CP&P from the milling industry, most recently managing a plant in Franklin, VA. Prior to moving to Virginia, he managed a feed additive plant in Mississippi and also spent time as an HSE...

J.H. Hiers recently installed twenty sections of precast 10×8 single cell precast box culvert to form a quad run for Magnolia Project (formerly know as Summer’s Lake PH 1) in Dorchester County, South Carolina. The twenty box culvert sections (produced in Summerville and each weighing over 32,000 pounds) were delivered and installed in under 24...

CP&P provided 10 loads of second grade pipe to help with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources offshore reef project near Brunswick, Georgia. The CDH reef is located 15 miles east of Cumberland Island in about 50 feet deep water. Check out this short video of the installation:  

Thank you to our friends at Thomas & Hutton (Mt. Pleasant office) for allowing CP&P to bring a couple of tractor trailers of product and join in some food and fun during our late afternoon “Dine & Learn” in their parking lot. We had 40 folks sign in and everyone enjoyed a beverage of choice...

Virginia Tech LDDI students joined CP&P for an on campus product demonstration. Two tractor trailer loads of precast concrete structures and reinforced concrete pipe we on display to allow the LDDI students a “hands on” view of what they may be specifying when designing future land development projects. The CP&P team had a great afternoon...

A big “Thank You!” to Beaufort County, SC Public Works for attending the combined tour of our Charleston Pipe and Summerville Structures Plants. As usual all CP&P staff did a great job of hosting and explaining the various processes on display. Julianna Corbin, Beaufort Co. Environmental Engineer stated after the tour, “I want to mention...