Heidelberg Materials
Heidelberg Materials is a multinational supplier of building materials headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany. It was founded in 1894 by Johann Philipp Schifferdecker. The company expanded into France in the 1970s, and to North America with the purchase of Lehigh Cement in 1990.
HeidelbergCement AG acquired Sherman Industries in 2005 and Hanson PLC of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England in 2007. The business operated as Lehigh Hanson until rebranding under its present name in 2023.
In 2019 HeidelbergCement sold the downtown Birmingham Sherman Industries concrete plant at 1100 2nd Avenue South in what became Birmingham's Parkside District to real estate developer Residential Ventures of Denver, Colorado. It soon announced plans to build a new plant on the site of its former concrete pipe at 3240 Fayette Avenue, just east of the Birmingham Crossplex in Birmingham's Central Park neighborhood. The proposal, which was perceived as exacerbating the history of "environmental racism" in the Birmingham District, was opposed by the Birmingham City Council. In August 2020 the company acquired an 8-acre parcel adjoining ABC Coke in Tarrant as the site of its new plant.
The company maintains an office for its Alabama division at 400 Riverhills Business Park. In addition to a large Leeds Cement Plant, the company operates numerous ready-mix batching plants in the Birmingham area, and specialty products stores in Birmingham and Rainbow City.
Birmingham area locations
- Leeds Cement Plant and Terminal at 8401 2nd Avenue Leeds
- Leeds Concrete 8732 Parkway Drive, Leeds
- Bessemer Concrete, 1100 Vulcan Drive, Bessemer
- Gadsden Concrete, 246 Steele Station Road, Rainbow City
- Harpersville Concrete, 37538 Alabama State Highway 25, Harpersville
- Helena Concrete, 5699 Shelby County Highway 261, Helena
- Montevallo Concrete, 6824 Alabama State Highway 25, Montevallo
- Sylacauga Concrete, 1312 Fayetteville Road, Sylacauga
- Tarrant Concrete, 1020 Pinson Valley Parkway, Tarrant
- Trussville Concrete, 5067 Cardinal Street, Trussville
- Heidelberg Materials Specialty Products, 3100 6th Avenue South, Birmingham
- Heidelberg Materials Specialty Products, 246 Steele Station Road
References
- "Heidelberg Materials picks up where Lehigh Hanson left off." (January 3, 2023) Concrete Products
External links
- Heidelberg Materials website
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