Vulcan Materials Company

Vulcan Materials Company

Company type	Public company
Traded as	NYSE: VMC S&P 500 Component
Industry	Construction materials
Founded	1909 as Birmingham Slag Company
Headquarters	Birmingham, Alabama United States
Key people	J. Thomas Hill, Chief Executive Officer Suzanne H. Wood, Chief Financial Officer Denson N. Franklin III, General Counsel
Products	Crushed stone, sand and gravel
Revenue	$7.315 billion (2022)[1]
Number of employees	12,000[2] (2023)
Website	VulcanMaterials.com

Vulcan Materials Company (NYSE: VMC) is an American company based in Birmingham, Alabama. It is principally engaged in the production, distribution and sale of construction materials. Vulcan is the largest producer of construction materials, primarily gravel, crushed stone, and sand, and employs approximately 12,000 people at over 400 facilities. Vulcan serves 22 states, the District of Columbia, Mexico, Canada, Bahamas and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Vulcan's innovative Crescent Market project led to construction of a large quarry and deep water seaport on the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico, just south of Cancun. This quarry supplies Tampa, New Orleans, Houston, and Brownsville, Texas, as well as other Gulf coast seaports, with crushed limestone via large 62,000-ton self-discharging ships.