National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association (NSSGA) Honors

Environmental Excellence
The Environmental Excellence recognition program was created in 1992 (as the Environmental Eagle Awards) to recognize aggregates companies that meet or exceed technical environmental and regulatory requirements. The name of the award was changed in 2006.

• 2009 Winner
  • Bronze Award — Stamper Mine, Missouri

• 2007 Winners
  • Bronze Award — Cedar Rapids Quarry, Iowa
  • Bronze Award — St. Cloud Quarry, Minnesota
  • Bronze Award — Hatton Quarry, Arkansas
  • Bronze Award — Jones Mill Quarry, Malvern, Arkansas

• 2006 Winners
  • Gold Award — New Braunfels Quarry, Texas
  • Gold Award — Snyder Quarry, Oklahoma
  • Silver Award — Bedrock Quarry, Center Point, Texas
  • Silver Award — Chico Quarry, Texas
  • Silver Award — San Pedro Quarry, San Antonio, Texas
  • Silver Award — 211 Quarry, San Antonio, Texas

Safety Excellence
The Safety Excellence Awards Program was created in 1987 to promote safe working conditions and practices and to recognize, on an annual basis, individual operations with exemplary safety records among NSSGA member companies.

• 2008 Winners
  • First Place (Medium) – Onslow Quarry, Richlands, NC
  • Second Place (Large) – Ruby Quarry, Macon, GA
  • Third Place (Small) – Clinton County Limestone, Sabina, OH
  • Plaques – Cedarville Quarry, OH, and Franklin Gravel, OH

Excellence in Community Relations
The Excellence in Community Relations Awards Program began in 1989 to recognize aggregate producers whose community involvement and support activities have enhanced the public’s perception of the aggregates industry in general and the public image of the individual producer’s aggregate operation in particular. (Beginning in 2007, this award combined the former “About Face” and “Community Relations” award programs.

• 2008 Winner
  • Bronze Award — St. Cloud Quarry, Minnesota

• 2007 Winners
  • Silver Award — Ottawa Quarry, Kansas
  • Bronze Award — Snyder Quarry, Oklahoma
  • Bronze Award — Chico Quarry, Texas

• 2005 “About Face” Winners
  • Showplace – Beckmann Quarry, San Antonio Texas
  • Outstanding Achievement – Chico Quarry, Texas

• 2004 “About Face” Winners
  • Showplace – Alabaster Quarry, Alabama
  • Outstanding Achievement – Chico Quarry, Texas

“Toast of the Town”
Part of the NSSGA’s Community Relations awards program, Toast of the Town annually recognizes “outstanding events of great value to the community.”

• 2006 Winner
  • Forsyth Quarry, Suwanee, Georgia – “Concert in the Quarry”

Environmental Stewardship
The Environmental Steward Award provides national recognition for individuals who have made superior and substantial contributions to their company’s, or to the industry’s, efforts toward proactive, environmentally sound operating practices.

• 2005 Winner
  • Horace Willson, Director of Environmental Services

 Other Industry Recognition

Pit & Quarry Web Site Award
In 2005, the Martin Marietta web site was named a Pit & Quarry Web Site Award Winner. The seventh annual awards program, sponsored by Pit & Quarry magazine, examined more than 200 Web sites of aggregates producers and state associations. This was the second time Pit & Quarry granted this distinction to the Company’s web site; the first was in 2002.

AggMan of The Year
This award, presented by Aggregates Manager magazine, recognizes managers who make “indelible marks on the aggregates industry.” Criteria include career, association and volunteer efforts.

• 2006 Winner
  • Ward Nye, President and Chief Operating Officer