East Tennessee Concrete

Concrete Materials, founded in 1947 by R. Ed Storms and Herbert Walters, offers ready-mix concrete and supplies. It sells finishing trowels, extension handles, magnesium hand floats, concrete spreaders, hand groovers and concrete wall blocks. Its Web site features concrete column and volume, and block wall calculators. Its completed projects include Industrial Park Bridge Deck, Crockett Square, Merchant's Greene Bridge and Morristown-Hamblen Hospital. Its projects include parking lots, skateboard arenas and water storage tanks. Concrete Materials also operates a fleet of computer-controlled concrete trucks. It is a member of the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association, Tennessee Ready Mixed Concrete Association and American Concrete Institute. Concrete Materials is based in Morristown, Tenn.

Rinker Materials Corporation is one of the largest producers of heavy building materials in the United States and is headquartered in West Palm Beach, Fla. The company maintains a professional staff of more than 10,000 employees and operates in more than 30 U.S. states. It manufactures concrete blocks, cutting equipment and blades, hammers, pliers, pry bars, shovels, hoes, rakes, sprayers, compressors and measuring equipment. Rinker Materials Corporation also manufactures plasters and coatings, pool copings, drainage systems, control joints, wrap strips, power cords, rebar shears, sealants and patch cement products. In addition, the company offers engineering field analysis, paving mixture performance studies and thermal desorption services. Rinker Materials Corporation maintains a location in Knoxville, Tenn.

Operational for more than 40 years, Summers-Taylor is a contractor and its clients include Wal-Mart, Fingerhut, K-Mart, Texas Instruments, Home Depot and other corporate industries. Summers-Taylor provides grading, storm drainage, curbs, base and paving. It additionally offers products and services for environmental and highway construction projects. Summers-Taylor provides various types of concrete and its concrete services include slip-form curbing and other specialty services. Summers-Taylor also manufactures asphalt and supplies for construction of residential driveways, and industrial and retail parking and roads. Summers-Taylor has been the winner of the State of Tennessee Highway Quality Award and the company is located in Elizabethton, Tenn.