Between its 14 cement plants, hundreds of ready-mix concrete plants and quarries, and distribution stations in the U.S., Cemex employs about 15, 000 American workers.

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Currently, he's buying Florida Rock (nyse: FRK - news - people ), one of the nation's biggest makers of ready-mix concrete.

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Three years ago Cemex would tell customers it would try to make deliveries of ready-mix concrete (the kind that comes in the trucks with rotating barrels) within three hours of agreed delivery times.

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