Category: Inductees

Hall of Fame Inductee Class of 2013 Two of Arthur Taggart’s works, the “Handbook of Ore Dressing” and “Handbook of Mineral Dressing” are essential text for nearly every aspect of aggregates processing, as nearly every piece of equipment involved in processing is based on his research. Taggart gained mining experience as a machine operator, mill…

Hall of Fame Inductee Class of 2013 Nearly 70 years have passed since Arthur Taggart completed the “Handbook of Mineral Dressing,” and more than 85 have gone by since his “Handbook of Ore Dressing” was first published. But despite nearly an entire century passing between then and now, Taggart’s works remain essential text for almost…

Hall of Fame Inductee Class of 2013 Paul C. Mellott Jr. has been on what is now NSSGA’s executive committee for 23 years, and he served the National Stone Association as chairman in 1996. But when his tenure as chairman was up, a friend encouraged him to get involved in another endeavor to add value…

Hall of Fame Inductee Class of 2013 Paul C. Mellott Jr., chairman and CEO of Mellott Co., has been involved in his family-owned company for nearly 40 years. Mellott began handling contract-crushing leadership duties upon his father’s retirement in the 1990s, and he was later instrumental in the launch of a new equipment-manufacturing group. Mellott has…

Hall of Fame Inductee Class of 2013 In 1923, Charles Luck Jr. purchased the Sunnyside Granite Co. in Richmond, Va., and he ran the company that is currently the 11th largest crushed-stone producing company in the U.S. over four decades. Luck’s company started as a single quarry on the west end of Richmond. Today, Luck Stone operates…

Hall of Fame Inductee Class of 2013 The company that eventually became Vulcan Materials Co. traces its roots back to 1910, but Vulcan’s rise into mega-producer territory is largely credited to Charles W. Ireland, a member of the third generation of Irelands involved in the company. By 1951, Ireland developed a plan to capitalize on…

Hall of Fame Inductee Class of 2013 The top crushed stone-producing company in the United States, Vulcan Materials Co., would not be the mega-producer it is today without the vision of Charles W. Ireland, who developed a plan after World War II to expand his family company, Birmingham Slag. In the early 1950s, Ireland saw…

Hall of Fame Inductee Class of 2013 Samuel Calvin McLanahan designed nearly all of the equipment that came out of the foundry from the time he purchased one-sixth of McLanahan Corp. in 1880 to the conclusion of his tenure as general manager in 1902. Around 1890, Samuel conceived a way to wash clay from the rock in…