ASTEC INDS INC, (ASTE) Stock Research Free Stock Rating

Company Profile

Astec Industries, Inc. engages in designing, engineering, manufacturing, and marketing equipment and components used primarily in road building and related construction activities worldwide. The company offers rock breaking and processing equipment and utility vehicles for mining; portable and stationary aggregate and ore processing equipment; aggregate processing equipment for the crushed stone, manufactured sand, recycle, top soil, and remediation markets; crushers, vibratory screening equipment, conveyors, and turnkey plants and mills; vibrating screens for sand and gravel, and asphalt operations; aggregate processing equipment for the production and classification of sand, gravel, and crushed stone for road and other construction applications; and hot-mix asphalt plants and related components, and testing and sampling equipment for the asphalt mix and aggregate processing industries. It also offers heat transfer equipment, small asphalt plants, and polymer and rubber blending systems for the hot-mix asphalt industry; thermal fluid heaters, asphalt heaters, polymer and rubber blending systems, and other heat transfer equipment; auger boring and directional drilling equipment; chain and wheel trenching equipment and excavating equipment; asphalt paver screeds and windrow pickup machines; milling machines used to recycle asphalt and concrete, asphalt paving equipment, and material transfer vehicles; and rock saws, thermal fluid storage tanks, feeders, washing equipment, fluid/mud systems, and road miners. In addition, Astec also manufactures and sells replacement parts for equipment in each of its product lines and for third parties. The company offers its products to asphalt road paving contractors, aggregate and hot-mix asphalt producers, utility and pipeline contractors, open mine and quarry operators, and government agencies. It has strategic alliance with Case Construction Equipment for the manufacture, marketing, and sale of trenchers, horizontal directional drills, and related equipment for the utility construction market. Astec was founded in 1972 and is based in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

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