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Tilcon New Jersey Asphalt Operations Wins 2013 Oldcastle Materials Group Award
Tilcon New Jersey Asphalt wins the 2013 Oldcastle Asphalt National Performance Committee (ANPC) company award for outstanding performance and leadership! Oldcastle Materials Group, headquartered in Atlanta, is our parent company.
The Oldcastle Asphalt National Performance Committee (ANPC) awards program is an internal company award program that recognizes individual plants, companies or regions for outstanding performance and leadership. The award program committee considered the following areas when making their decision - Safety, 5S, Environmental, RAP / Binder Replacement, Energy Use, Production, Costs and Margin and reviewed all Oldcastle Materials Group asphalt operations around the country.
The 2013 winner for the "Company High Volume" category for outstanding performance and leadership is Tilcon New Jersey! Congratulations to the asphalt team and to everyone who supported and collaborated with the asphalt division.
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Quarries Switch to Season Hours
As spring begins, our quarry scalehouses will begin to switch to season hours and our asphalt plant scalehouses will open. As season hours are confirmed, they will be posted here. Asphalt plant opening dates are posted in another News item in this News section.
New York
West Nyack Quarry - switches to 'season' hours Monday March 31
Haverstraw Quarry - switches to 'season' hours Monday March 31
Flushing Terminal - operating season hours
Port Washington Terminal - operating season hours
New Jersey
To be confirmed.
Unless otherwise noted above, other locations are still operating winter hours. Each location's hours are listed under the Location section.
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Tilcon's Third Annual Spring Clean Up at Casper Hill Road
Tilcon's Third Annual Spring Clean Up took place on Saturday April 5, 2014. A group of Tilcon volunteers, comprising employees and their families, spent several hours clearing Casper Hill Road and the adjacent verges of litter and debris. This event was organized in conjunction with local non-profit environmental group Keep Rockland Beautiful and was part of the Great American Clean Up, in which volunteers across the country work to clean up part of their neighborhood.
The Tilcon employees who took part include John Van Zetta, Tilcon Environmental Manager and his wife Talena, Sue Kopek and her family, Jason Hope and his family, Eric Kechejian and his daughter ,West Nyack Quarry manager John Rufer and West Nyack Quarry Quality Control Manager Mike Kalinowski, along with two West Nyack Quarry employees Keron Allen and Steven Trejos. John Cooney, Tilcon NY Divisional President and his wife Susan also took part, along with Bill Poole, Tilcon New York Chief Operations Officer and his wife Christine and their daughter. The West Nyack Corporate office was also represented by Adriane Casterella and Doug Remine. Niall O'Gara, Tilcon New York Vice President - Transportation and his wife Gerry Collins also took part, along with their sons Eoin and Brendan.
In addition to the Tilcon employees, John LaPlaca also attended the Clean up. John is a Keep Rockland Beautiful 'super-volunteer' who has at times gathered over 1,000 bags of garbage in a year, by himself! Finally, Impact Property Services/Spotless sent two employees Carlos Martinez and Wilson Ochoa to assist with the Clean Up. Casper Hill Road is the company's 'Adopt-a-Road'.
Volunteers were provided with protective gloves, garbage bags and trash grabbers and refreshments were served. Keron Allen and Steven Trejos operated loaders which shuttled trash to the dumpster, to make the collection process quicker and easier. Overall, a large dumpster was half-filled with garbage bags of trash collected from the site.
Thanks to everyone who took part in this very worthwhile event and a special thanks to Clarkstown Police who organized the closure of Casper Hill Road during the Clean Up.
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Easter Weekend Operating Hours
For this holiday weekend, the following changes apply to our regular operating hours. Out two Corporates offices in Wharton, NJ and West Nyack, NY are closed. The following plant/quarry changes apply:
New York
All plants, quarries and terminals are operating normal business hours, including any regular Saturday hours.
New Jersey
North Bergen Recycle- Will be closed on Friday and Saturday
Riverdale- Will be closed on Friday and Saturday
All other NJ facilities will be operating regular business hours, including any scheduled Saturday hours.
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Tilcon Asphalt Plants and Construction Crews Honored by NAPA Diamond Award Program
NAPA - the National Asphalt Paving Association offers the Diamond Award Program each year. This program recognizes the best performing asphalt plants and asphalt paving crews around the country in terms of the quality of the material they produce, how well-managed, safe and environmentally-friendly the plants are and how safe, well-trained and well-operated the construction crews are.
For 2013, the following Tilcon asphalt plants and paving crews were awarded honors under the NAPA Diamond Award Program.
2013 Diamond Achievement Award
This Award covers operations in the manufacturing plant and around the plant site. Aspects addressed include appearance, operations, environmental practices, safety, permitting and regulatory compliance, and community relations.
- Mt. Hope Asphalt
- Oxford Asphalt
- Pompton Lakes Asphalt
- Riverdale Asphalt
- Totowa Asphalt
- Haverstraw Asphalt
- Maybrook Asphalt
- Newburgh Asphalt
- Poughkeepsie Asphalt
2013 Diamond Quality Commendation Award
The Diamond Quality Commendation deals with the quality of the material produced. Areas evaluated include quality management, RAP and aggregate handling, asphalt storage, drying and mixing, air quality, truck scales, silos, and control rooms.
- Mt. Hope Asphalt
- Oxford Asphalt
- Pompton Lakes Asphalt
- Riverdale Asphalt
- Totowa Asphalt
2013 Diamond Paving Commendation Award
This Award is designed for paving crews. Areas evaluated include training of supervisors and crew members, use of best practices in paving, and compliance.
- NJ Construction Team - all paving crews.
Congratulations to all plant and construction personnel who worked so hard, throughout the year to achieve such high standards.
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Tilcon Marks Earth Day with Elementary School Event
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Employees from Tilcon visited the Catherine A. Dwyer School in Rockaway Township, on April, 22, for their 5th Annual Earth Day Presentation. This year the 2nd grade students began the event by coloring their own animal masks and making them very colorful and realistic. Several students even colored two masks for friends that were not able to attend and also to bring home to their families.
After the arts and crafts portion, special guest Nick from Rizzo's Reptiles brought in many of his reptile friends with him to visit the students so they could see and feel them. Some of the reptiles were snakes, beetles, toads, a chinchilla, crocodile and even a python snake. Two of our brave Tilcon representatives, Brad Carroll, General Manager of Aggregates and Jessica Zinna, Project Coordinator volunteered to hold the snake along with a school aid while Nick presented it to the students.
Brad Carroll finished the show with a PowerPoint presentation about the Mt. Hope Quarry. Many of the students were never at a quarry before and didn't know what we did on a day to day basis. The presentation allowed them to learn about the history of the quarry and the geology of the land as well as learning about blasting and about the equipment on the site. Throughout the presentation, the students asked great questions and were very interested in the process even at such a young age.
Thank you to all the other Tilcon employees who volunteered time out of their busy schedules to volunteer to help out with the event: Claudia Abrams, Maritsa Barosi, Sue Phillips and Pat Dickerson.
Great Job done by all!
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