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August 10, 2007
After the I-35W bridge collapse, Aggregate Industries, a supplier to the construction industry through river barge transport, is laying off workers.
According to media reports, Leicestershire, United Kingdom-based Aggregate Industries said it would reduce its workforce, laying of 35 people, who work on towboats and barges. The supplier will also reduce its production capacity, Jim Barker, the company's operations manager in the Twin Cities told the Pioneer Press.
The company, which has a distribution yard near the Mississippi River at 26th Avenue North, said it was sending four barges a day of sand, gravel and limestone upriver from a quarry on Grey Cloud Island, south of St. Paul Park, to its plant in Minneapolis.
Because it takes more money to truck the materials, the company decided to scale back 30 to 40 percent of its production in the area, the report said.
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