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I N S I D E T H I S I S S U E

04/07

2 • Meet John Ware

• Bob Haldrup returns to

Sales and Marketing

3 • Project Spotlight

• Aggregate business

4-5 • All about aggregate

6 • HR Update

7 • Technical Services

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imi expands with additional ready mix operationsFollowing the strategic plan developed by imi’s division presidents last year, imi has acquired three new ready mix operations in Tennessee, Kentucky and Indiana and opened a new plant in Illinois in the past 12 months. These regional expansions are part of the master plan to grow the company.

“Part of our strategic plan through 2007 is to continue to grow the core business that has made imi successful,” said Ron Davis, CEO.

“We will continue to look at acquisitions to grow the company where it makes sense,” said Earl Brinker, chief fi nancial offi cer.

“These acquisitions improve our effi ciencies and help expand our market area by fi lling a geographic gap,” said Bob Haldrup, senior vice president, Sales and Marketing.

Sam Morris, manager of the Mt. Carmel plant in Illinois, was part of a plant acquisition sev-eral years ago. He was a driver for A&T in Ft. Branch, Ind., when imi purchased the plant in 2004. He can see many advantages of being part of imi.

“A&T was a good company to work for, but with imi, I have had more opportunity to move up,” he said. “I probably would have stayed a driver at A&T, but when imi was looking for someone to manage the newly acquired plant in Mt. Car-mel, I applied and got the job. imi is very good about looking inside the company fi rst when there are job openings.”

Now that he is a plant manager for imi, Sam sees what imi can do for customers, too. He believes customers benefi t when imi acquires a local plant. “imi has a lot going on the techni-cal side,” he said. We do a lot of testing, which provides a better product, which benefi ts our customers.”

Sam also noted advantages in equipment with imi. For example, trucks are overhauled, main-tained or replaced on a regular schedule, and because imi has a network of plants and equip-ment to help meet customer needs, his plant is able to win jobs that are much larger than his plant alone could handle.

Welcome to the imi FamilyNew since 2006

• Brunni Ready Mix in Greensburg, Ind.

• B&S Supply in Lawrenceburg, Tenn.

• Rodgers Concrete Co., Inc. in Frankfort and Shelbyville, Ky.

• A new imi plant in Lawrenceville, Ill.

Now part of the imi family, Plant Manager Sam Morris is able to win jobs that are much larger than the Mt. Carmel, Ill., plant could handle before it was acquired.

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“Safety first” is quite literally the motto for John Ware, the new presi-dent of imi’s Indiana Division.

“I think there is nothing more important than safety – every employee deserves to come home in the same condition they left that morning,” he said. With over 30 years at ready mix companies from coast to coast, John has seen the consequences of lax safety pro-grams elsewhere.

In addition to an emphasis on safety, John plans to build on the excellence and reputation imi already enjoys. He is impressed by imi’s dedica-tion to continuous improvement, environmental stewardship, and exemplary customer service.

“imi has lots to be proud of – it’s a top-notch organization,” he said.

John’s first day with imi was March 12. Though John’s office will be in Greenfield, he expects to be on the road a lot. “I plan to visit all the

sites in my area and meet as many people as I can right away,” he said.

imi CEO Ron Davis and John first met when they both worked at CalMat Co. in California 20 years ago. When Ron called about the job at imi, John jumped at the opportu-nity.

“As I was interviewing and meet-ing people, I noticed that most of the people I met had been with the company for a long time. That

shows stability to me, and it’s unusual in this industry. Typically, companies in our industry have high turnover rates,” he said.

John credits imi’s Midwestern roots for its sta-bility. Born and raised in Chicago, John shares these values, but his career has taken him to Colorado and both coasts.

“It’s good to be returning to the Midwest,” he said. “It’s good to be home again.”

Safety is priority for imi’s new Indiana Division president

After stepping into the role of interim president of imi’s Indiana Division in 2004, Bob Haldrup is finally able to return to his first love – sales and marketing.

“I was happy to step in and take over managing the Indiana Division when the need arose,” said Bob. “Now that we have filled that position with John Ware, I can return to sales and marketing. I have several projects that have been on hold for a while that I want to get back to.”

One of the many benefits of imi’s strategic business plan is that Bob now has an organized team of sales managers strategically dedicated to that function.

“We have a lot of customers who cross divisional boundaries, and now we can do a better job of identifying them and their needs,” said Bob. “For example, say we have a customer in Columbus, Indiana who is working on a job in Nashville, Tennessee – that customer may not even know about imi in Nashville. Now that we have a sales management team throughout the organization we can deliver our messages to customers more effectively.”

John Ware

QUICK FACTS about

JOHN WAREFamily: Married to Leslie for 29 years. Two daughters, Erin, 25, who is in architectural school in Boston, and Caitlin, 23, who is majoring in psychology at Ameri-can University in Paris. One West Highland White Terrier, Toby, and one cat, Jack.

Before coming to imi: Vice President, Mid Atlantic Concrete, Titan Virginia Ready Mix LLC, Wil-liamsburg, VA.

Reason for coming to imi: “It gives me the opportunity to work with some really good people at a great company.”

Hobbies/interests: Woodturn-ing (making wooden bowls)

Best woodturning story: “In Virginia, my woodturning shop was in my garage. Normally, I would move one car out to make room to work, but one day I was in a hurry and left the car there. Sure enough the piece of wood I was working flew off the machine, denting my wife’s car. I learned two lessons: (1) never get in a hurry when it comes to safety, and (2) it’s not easy to tell your wife you’ve dented her car.”

Bob Haldrup returns to sales and marketing as senior vice president

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As part of imi’s continued restructuring to put the needs of the customer first, the aggregate business now enjoys a dedicated sales team.

“The aggregate business is a huge portion of what we do in Indiana and our sales efforts should reflect that,” said Bob Haldrup, senior vice president of Sales and Marketing. “These talented individuals are specialists in the aggre-gate business. Each has a defined territory and is responsible for specific quarries and custom-ers.”

“The development of our sales team over the last six months has begun to produce the results we intended,” says Scott Gaede, sales manager. “We have revamped the entire territory to pro-vide our customers with the service, attention and quality products they deserve.”

Another focal point for the aggregate sales force has been complementing the sales efforts of our sister company, E&B Paving. Aggregate salesmen regularly work side by side with E&B personnel to provide a wide array of services to customers. “The aggregate business believes an all inclu-sive sales approach with E&B provides a true one-stop-shop option for the cus-tomer. It’s a service we can provide that is unrivaled elsewhere in the market,” says Scott.

Current jobs in progress awarded to both imi and E&B, such as the Hamilton Town Center in Noblesville and the Nestle plant near Anderson, are proof that the “team” approach is working.

New sales structure for aggregate business

Members of imi’s aggregate team from left to right: Kim Coffield, sales support, Kevin Lemler, sales, Stacey Stephen-son, aggregate billing, Mark Sullivan, sales, Scott Gaede, sales manager, Mike Gross, sales, Kevin Voorhis, sales

SpotLightP R O J E C T

What’s unique about this project: The Honda manufacturing plant in Greensburg has cre-ated a stir in Indiana since it was announced last June. The $550 million automobile plant is being built on a 1,700-acre tract in Decatur County, near Greensburg, Ind. The plant, which will employ 2,000 associates, will produce Honda Civic sedans beginning fall of 2008.

According to Honda, the company is making a significant commitment to limiting the environ-mental impact of the new plant. It will have the smallest environmental footprint of any Honda auto plant in North America.

Construction of the plant is managed overall by Global Performance. Since December 2006, imi has been supplying concrete to F.A. Wilhelm Construction Co., Inc. for various packages of the project. The first two phases included more

than 15,000 yards of concrete for the initial foundation work. The third phase, the floor package, will be over 40,000 yards and will begin pouring in May. There are also several small side work packages amounting to an-other 2,000 yards.

imi has had a portable concrete plant up and running on site since mid January. A second portable plant will be added this spring. In addition, trucks, drivers and some concrete come from the newly acquired Brunni con-crete plant in Greensburg.

“Being new to imi and helping with the Honda project has turned our world upside down,” said John Witkemper, office manager at the for-mer Brunni plant. “We’ve kept our trucks and drivers very busy.”

This on-site portable plant is one of two supplying concrete to the new Honda facility in Decatur County, near Greens-burg, Ind. The newly acquired Brunni plant in Greensburg is also helping with the project.

Honda manufacturing plant, Greensburg, Indiana

By Brian Duncan, Superintendent, McCordsville Plant, Ind.

Mining is an integral division of imi which produces the largest component of concrete - aggregate!

In its simplest form, aggregates are rocks which are more commonly referred to as sand, gravel and limestone. Limestone is the white chalky mineral that was formed as marine organisms decomposed at the bottom of an inland sea that covered present day Indiana hundreds of mil-lions of years ago. Sand and gravel were brought to Indiana by four epochs of glaciers that cov-ered most of Indiana between 2 million and 14 thousand years ago. To harvest these aggregates, imi operates eight stone quarries and ten sand and gravel pits in Indiana as well as two floating dredge plants that mine sand and gravel on the Ohio River between Cairo, Ill., and Henderson, Ky.

Limestone is a very large and tight formation that must be drilled and blasted to start the mining process. The pictured blast (below) is of a 100 foot tall wall of stone. A blast such as this

yields approximately 20,000 tons of stone to be processed. A well engineered blast can increase the processing plants efficiency by fragment-ing the stone before it goes to the crusher. Each quarry has a unique arrangement to process their stone beyond the blast. However, all of the quarries will use a primary crusher to take the larger stone pieces from the blast down to a size that is manageable and secondary crush-ers are used to further reduce the size of the stone. Large shaker screens will then separate and size the stone into a marketable product that is stockpiled by conveyors at the end of the process.

Sand and gravel are excavated from the earth by several differ-ent methods depending on the location, depth and makeup of the deposit. For example, a deposit that is above the ground water level and easily accessible by wheeled vehicles can use a front end loader to feed the pro-cessing plant. More common are the deposits that are below water or located in a flood plain. These locations need a dredge to dig the sand and gravel. By definition, a dredge is a machine used to mine aggregate from below water level. imi uses two types of dredges at its sand and gravel pits. The first is a mechanical dredge. This machine digs the sand and gravel with a bucket, either on the end of an excavator or drag line. Pictured (above) is the Manitowoc 4600 dragline operating at the Greenwood, Ind., pit.

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What is it and how do we get it?AGGREGATE:

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The second type of dredge operated by imi is the hydraulic dredge. This machine uses water as a medium to carry the sand and gravel through a pipeline to the processing plant. A large centrifugal pump located on the dredge provides the push that sends the sand and gravel slurry through the pipeline sometimes as far as 2,100 feet. The McCordsville, Ind., pit uses a hydraulic dredge and two booster pumps to transport aggregate 5,300 feet to the process-ing plant.

The two hydraulic dredges on the Ohio River have the processing plant on the dredge plat-form so that they function as a stand alone op-eration. Barges weighing 1,200 tons are continu-ously positioned next to these dredges to haul away sand to places as far away as Nashville, Tenn. Pictured (above) is Dredge III digging downstream of Paducah, Ky.

Many of imi’s aggregate operations have open house parties for their neighbors or host field trips for the local schools. This type of involve-ment in our local societies promotes good

relations and allows us to show that we are good stewards to the community as well as the environment. All of the imi aggregate operations are members of the Environmental Stewardship Council, which is a self-regulating organiza-tion committed to the principals of responsible stewardship of the mineral resources of the state of Indiana. Many of our aggregate operations have been recognized for their commitment to the communities they operate in by receiving Gold and Silver honors in the Excellence in Mining competition held every year through the Indiana Mineral Aggregates Association. Con-gratulations to Joe Langel, area supervisor for Bluffton and Montpelier, who won the Miner of the Year award for his hard work and commit-ment to the mining industry.

It can take up to 10 years to get a new location permitted and zoned for a mining operation. imi’s exploration committee is constantly inves-tigating, drilling and testing strategic locations in Indiana. As the need for stone, sand and gravel grows, so will imi’s aggregate division.

Joe Langel, area supervisor for Bluffton and Montpelier, receives the Miner of the Year award from Robert Jones, ex-ecutive director of the Indiana Mineral Aggregates Associa-tion. Joe was recognized for his hard work and commitment to the mining industry

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New organizational structure makes internal postings accessible to every-one

Since June of 2006, several employees have moved into new roles thanks to the imi internal posting process. Job openings are advertised through e-mails that go to every division.

“As promised, we have created a common internal structure so an employee can go from a site in Tennessee to a site in Indiana and the job titles, experience level, and job descriptions will be familiar,” said Michael Vasquez, vice president, Human Resources. “Our company philosophy is to promote from within when-ever possible, and this common structure and process makes it easier for employees to see the opportunities and apply for them.”

For example, Ryan Betz went from being a field technician in Bloomington, Ind., to managing the Concrete Laboratory in Columbia, Tenn.

“imi has given me the opportunity to grow my career without leaving the company,” said Ryan. “Opportunities open up every day. There is lots of room to grow here if you are willing to act on them.”

Terry Jones, formerly safety director for imi South, Tennessee and Southwest, saw a job opening for director of Environmental Safety for all of imi and E&B. He applied, nailed the

interviews, got the job, and is now in his new role, all without moving his family.

“With my family situation, I’m not at a point where I could pick up and move,” said Terry. “Fortunately, I live in Scottsburg, Ind., where I am right in the geographic middle of imi’s terri-tory, so even in my new role I am able to work out of the same office.”

“Now that imi has unified Human Resources, jobs are posted on a regular basis. imi has stepped up and reinforced its desire to promote from within and give people opportunities,” said Ryan.

H R U P D A T E

Internal promotions popular with employees

Ryan Betz uses the compression machine to test concrete cylin-ders in his new role as lab manager for the Concrete Laboratory in Columbia, Tenn.

KudosLast issue we announced that E&B Paving had advanced to the final round for the national Sheldon B. Hayes award for excellence. In mid December, E&B was notified that we placed second in the U.S. for this prestigious award.

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You’d better have an hour or so to spare if you ask Jon Havens to tell you about his vision for imi Central Indiana’s Technical Services. He is quite enthusiastic in his response.

In addition to quality control, he will tell you the department has expanded to include testing aggregates and concrete, exploration activities and reserves calculations, working with market-ing and operations to proactively develop new products and new mixtures, and extensive test-ing of admixtures and cements.

“We want to be proactive, not reactive,” said Jon. For example, Jon and his team are currently working to optimize mixes to achieve the same benefits and quality at a lower cost.

The Tech Services group shares best practices and discusses successes with its counterparts throughout the organization. In the Central Indiana Division, one of the ways this happens is through the Tech Services information pages on the intranet. These pages include a database of testing, schedules, policies and procedures, guidelines and test methods.

“We want imi to be recognized as leaders in the industry in every way - our products, our

materials and our people,” he said. “We are committed to our team for the long haul and we are investing in training and development where we need it.”

imi Central Indiana revamps Technical Services

imi Central Indiana Division’s Tech Services team is committed to:

• Professionalism

• Accuracy

• Timeliness

• Efficiency

• Cooperation

• Proactive actions

• Creative thinking

Jerry Beck runs a compressive strength test on a mortar cube in the lab.

Randy Robertson performs an air and yield test in the field.

Field Manager (Concrete – QA)

Mark Radcliff

Technical Manager (Concrete)

Randy Robertson

(Title Pending)(Concrete – QC)

Svetlana Latashiline

Development Engineer(Concrete/Aggregates)

Matt Christman

Geologist(Aggregates)

Rick Lucas

QC/QA Manager(Aggregates)Trent Sanders

Lab Technician:Jerry Beck

Field Technicians:Chad Clark

Jaccob KieliszewskiDarrin LitteralDarrell LitteralJustin LowderGreg LutgenToby Welpott

Area Coordinators:Sonya Cowles

Kevin HollowayTrina Smart

Director of Technical Services

Jon Havens

Administrative Assistant

Jessica Hunsinger

imi Central Indiana Technical Services Organizational Chart

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