The Enterprise Operations Committee of the Pensacola City Council meets on Monday, Aug. 20 at 3:15 p.m. in the Hagler-Mason Conference Room to consider a proposed lease between the Port and Rinker Materials of Florida for development of a limestone aggregates import and distribution facility on 3.45 acres of the port.
Rinker is part of CMEX – which operates a cement plant at the port.
According to their website www.rinker.com,
Rinker was established following the demerger of the heavy building materials businesses of CSR Limited in March 2003. Rinker group companies have operations in the US and Australia, supplying aggregate, cement, concrete, concrete block, asphalt, concrete pipe and other construction materials to over 34,000 valued customers. Rinker’s US subsidiary Rinker Materials Corporation (Rinker Materials – rinkermaterials.com ) which is number one or two in almost all of its markets. Rinker’s Australian subsidiary, known as Readymix, is one of the top three Australian construction materials groups, with operations in every state and major city.
It lists Pensacola Ready Mix, 415 Hyatt Street as a local cement facility.