It takes a lot of limerock base material to build a 12,000-foot airport runway. But for White Rock Quarries, it’s all in a day’s — or in this case, night’s — work.

Make that many nights’ work. WRQ has established a night-shift sales team to supply material for a new, full-length runway at Miami International Airport. It is the largest base-rock supply contract in White Rock’s history.

The general contractor is Gilbert Southern Corp., a subsidiary of top-ten ranked contractor Peter Kiewit Sons’ Inc. Gilbert chose White Rock for its ability to consistently provide the high volume of DOT-certified base material needed on the project.

White Rock Keeps Weigh-Out Times Short
(4th Quarter 2001)

White Rock's four outbound scales feature remote ticket printers to
shorten the weigh-out process and get drivers back on the road faster.

White Rock Installs New Hydrocyclone Unit
(4th Quarter 2001)

Among the improvements at White Rock in 2001 is this new hydrocyclone unit, which produces superfine material from the run-off of the larger materials.