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2024 Workshops Encompassed Three Days of Learning and Networking



Each year, the IMAA Committees work hard to secure an exciting lineup of speakers and presentations for the IMAA Winter Workshops. We design the Workshop Sessions to educate everyone — from sales professionals, to QC technicians, to owners and CEOs, to safety and environmental managers, and everyone in between. The IMAA Operations Seminar took place […]

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Award Recipients Shine as Stewards for the Industry at the 2024 Winter Workshops



While IMAA hands out a number of well-deserved awards to miners who work hard to further our industry, three awards at the Winter Workshops stand out as particularly high honors. IMAA Miner of the Year The IMAA Miner of the Year Award annually spotlights an aggregates professional who exemplifies the very best in our industry […]

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Winter Workshops Will Be Here Before We Know It



Save the date now for our 2024 Winter Workshops, to be held at the JW Marriott in downtown Indianapolis from Monday, February 5, through Wednesday, February 7. Each year, the IMAA Committees work hard to secure an exciting lineup of speakers and presentations for the IMAA Winter Workshops. We design the Workshop Sessions to educate […]

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Deadline Extended for Submission of IMAA Awards



Are you working diligently on submitting your Excellence in Mining packet for 2022? Do you have someone in mind who deserves recognition as IMAA Miner of the Year? The submission deadline for the annual IMAA Awards has been extended to December 30, 2022. Find the 2022 Awards Information     Each year, IMAA awards individuals, […]

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Time to Start Preparing for the 2022 IMAA Awards!



While it may be the middle of summer right now, the 2023 IMAA Winter Workshops will be here before we know it! And with the Winter Workshops comes the IMAA Annual Awards program.  Each year, IMAA awards individuals, companies, and mine sites that have gone above and beyond industry standards in safety, in environmental, in […]

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IMAA Inducts Bill Silvers into the IMAA Hall of Fame



IMAA Inducts Bill Silvers, Recently Retired from Stone-Street Quarries into the IMAA Hall of Fame Some individuals make outstanding contributions to the industry that seem to go unnoticed. Special recognition from your peers for these contributions is the highest honor we can bestow upon our members. The Indiana Mineral Aggregates Association periodically honors these special […]

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Keith “Sarge” Hurlbert Named 2020 Miner of the Year



Sponsored by the IMAA PIE Committee, The Miner of the Year Award exemplifies the very best in the profession and these individuals continually bring credit to the industry and to their community. In 2020, IMAA recognized Keith “Sarge” Hurlbert of Martin Marietta as having contributed significantly to the aggregates industry by providing a safe working […]

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Nathan Wanstrath Receives 2020 Keystone Award



IMAA started awarding the Keystone Award in 1998.  By definition the keystone is the topmost stone of an arch, popularly thought of as “especially holding the others in place.” This year, IMAA recognizes another person for his impact on the Indiana aggregate industry. IMAA congratulates Nathan Wanstrath of New Point Stone Company for receiving the […]

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VCNA Prairie Aggregates’ Kim Grose Awarded 2020 President’s Award



Each year the Association undertakes numerous projects and activities for the benefit of its member companies. Staff and volunteers from the membership conduct these projects and activities.  This year, IMAA 2020 Board President John Schmidt of US Aggregates presented the IMAA President’s Award to an individual who is an invaluable resource to the Association.  The 2020 President’s Distinguished […]

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2021 IMAA Winter Workshops Online



2020 Brought a lot of Changes to the Winter Workshops While there were many challenges in 2020 that carried into 2021, one of the biggest tasks for IMAA was to deliver the Winter Workshops virtually—and we did it! The 2021 Winter Workshops Online event kicked off on March 3rd. Over the course of 3 half-days […]