Plant Management

Location:  Grand Ballroom F Speaker: Champman & Co. Leadership Institute - Partner with Afinitas Presentation Description: Regardless of the product or service, all organizations have two things in common: they employ and serve people. The majority of a person’s waking hours are spent in their place of employment. Yet according to a Harvard Business Review survey, […]

Location:  Grand Ballroom F Speaker: Chapman & Co. Leadership Institute - Partner with Afinitas Presentation Description: Inspire – Become the leader you want to follow. Inspirational leadership training doesn’t begin by learning a new set of skills or behaviors but rather by learning what inspires and motivates you. In this course you will have the […]

Location:  Grand Ballroom F Speaker: Ed Eagle - CP&P Joseph Wildhaber - Rinker Speaker Bio: More information to come!

Location:  Grand Ballroom F Speakers: DJ McKinney - Rinker Todd Marciniak - Northern Concrete Speaker Bios: DJ has had 22 years’ experience in Safety, Health, and Environmental directly related to the Concrete Industry. He makes his home base in Thomasville, North Carolina. DJ is proud to be from the State of West Virginia. As a […]

Location:  Grand Ballroom F Speakers: Scott Russell - Topwerk John Puzz - County Materials Speaker Bios: Scott Russell is an experienced business professional servicing the concrete products sector. As the residing President for Topwerk Services based out of Burlington, Ontario-his responsibilities are to promote and grow each of the 4 product houses under the Topwerk […]

Location:  Grand Ballroom F Workshop Leaders: Kevin Dowd, Kevin Reathaford, Randy Beckman, Tom Umek, Ron Schreiver, & John Witte - HawkeyePedershaab Description: Machinery workshop taught by the HawkeyePedershaab Team

Location:  Grand Ballroom F Speaker: Peter Skinner - Press - Seal Corporation Speaker Bio: I am married; my wife Karisa is fantastic. We have three wonderful kids (11, 8, 5), three good dogs, and a cat, who’s just okay. I enjoy lifting in the mornings, my children’s sporting events, and I have recently taken up […]

Location: Frisco 9 Speaker: Eric Steele - Chapman & Co. Leadership Institute Presentation Description: What do inspirational leaders do? When we asked leaders around the world, regardless of generation, background, or culture, they invariably respond with the same list of actions. Inspirational leaders listen, build trust, grow people, and form lasting connections with the people in […]

Location: Frisco 9 Speaker: Eric Steele - Chapman & Co. Leadership Institute Presentation Description: What do inspirational leaders do? When we asked leaders around the world, regardless of generation, background, or culture, they invariably respond with the same list of actions. Inspirational leaders listen, build trust, grow people, and form lasting connections with the people in […]

Location: Frisco 9 Workshop Leaders: Afinitas Description: Machinery workshop taught by the Afinitas Team

Location: Frisco 9 Speaker:  Vartan Babakhanian - Rinker Materials Description: More information coming soon! Speaker Bio: More information coming soon!

Location: Frisco 9 Speakers: Todd Marciniak - Northern Concrete Pipe Robert Strickland - Concrete Pipe & Precast John Puzz - County Materials Description: Discussions and communication within every part of the manufacturing process are how our companies and our industry thrive. Safety is an important part of every part of the manufacturing process, and for safety […]

Location: Frisco 9 Speakers: Todd Marciniak - Northern Concrete Pipe Robert Strickland - Concrete Pipe & Precast Description: Open safety toolbox talks, and training are often focused on specific or required topics. Yes, specific training of a task or a process is part of general plant safety. But how often do we talk about all the […]

Location: Frisco 9 Speaker: Todd Marciniak - Northern Concrete Pipe Description: It is important that everyone knows and understands safety terminology and how to approach different situations. Not utilizing safe work practices can create situations where we encounter incidents, accidents, and near misses. The safety terms (accident, incident, and near miss) used to distinguish events are frequently […]

Location: Frisco 9 Speakers:  Archie Heikkila - Rinker Materials Israel Cedillo - Rinker Materials Chris Sampson - Rinker Materials Martin Wieland - Wiggert/ACT William Felske - Rinker Materials Description: This course will lay the foundation for ensuring effective plant operations. We will discuss plant limitations and strengths in personnel, machinery, inventory and shipping. The objective of […]

Location: Pheoris West B - 3rd Floor Speaker: Eric Steele - Chapman & Co. Leadership Institute Presentation Description: What do inspirational leaders do? When we asked leaders around the world, regardless of generation, background, or culture, they invariably respond with the same list of actions. Inspirational leaders listen, build trust, grow people, and form lasting connections […]

Location: Pheoris West B - 3rd Floor Speaker: Eric Steele - Chapman & Co. Leadership Institute Presentation Description: Inspirational leadership training doesn’t begin by learning a new set of skills or behaviors but rather by learning what inspires and motivates you. While each of us has different and distinct values, identifying them leads to being more […]

Location: Pheoris West B - 3rd Floor Speaker:  Taylor Wilson - Trinity Consultants Description: This session will provide a broad overview of environmental compliance requirements as applicable to the concrete pipe manufacturing industry, with a focus on EPA’s Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) reporting program. The presenter will discuss the basics of TRI reporting, including common applicability […]