North American aggregates market on the rise

The North American market for construction aggregates is expected to increase an average of 4.3 percent per year to 3.7 billion metric tons by 2015. This comes after an average annual decline of 1.7 percent from 2005 to 2010. These and other trends are presented in World Construction Aggregates, a new study from The Freedonia Group Inc., an industry market research firm.

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