Lafarge Expands into Arizona Market

Lafarge has announced that it has purchased the aggregate assets of Sun State Rock and Materials Corp., Sun City, Ariz.

Sun State has been doing business in the greater Phoenix area for more than 20 years. The business will be consolidated into Lafarge’s Aggregates, Concrete and Asphalt operations.

The acquisition brings 90 employees and four aggregate operations into Lafarge’s Western U.S. business, according to Bob Cartmel, president of the Western U.S. business unit for Lafarge Aggregates, Concrete and Asphalt in North America.

C.R. Herro has been named general manager of Lafarge’s Arizona aggregate operations. He has been working as Lafarge’s Western U.S. director of resource management in Colorado for the past three years.

Larry Walker, one of Sun State’s cofounders, will remain at Sun City as market development manager for Lafarge.