Author: Marie Emerick

Hall of Fame Inductee Class of 2025 Hill, chairman of the board and CEO at Vulcan Materials, currently presides over the nation’s largest producer of construction aggregates. First joining Vulcan in 1979, Hill took on a variety of operations and general management assignments throughout his career there. He spent 1990 to 1996 in sales and…

Hall of Fame Inductee Class of 2025 Symons played a significant role in evolving the modern-day crushing market with several innovations a century ago – including the cone crusher. Symons designed the pillar shaft gyratory crusher in the early 20th century. The horizontal disc crusher was also an early invention of Symons, who started his…

Hall of Fame Inductee Class of 2025 Bauer, who is regarded as a premier expert in wear parts, is president of EccoFab, which he’s steered for nearly a half-century. By launching the use of Hardox steel in wear applications in the 1980s and continuing that innovation through the advocacy of different thicknesses and Brinell strengths,…

Hall of Fame Inductee Class of 2025 DeDiemar is the holder or coholder of 13 U.S. patents covering products such as jaw crushers, cone crushers, gravel scrubbers and apron feeders. His career included stops at several equipment manufacturing companies, including Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co., the Smith Engineering Works/Telsmith Division of Barber Greene Co., Protech and W.S. Tyler.…