U.S. Concrete Business Units Receive Multiple Awards and

EULESS, TX --(Marketwired - September 21, 2016) - U.S. Concrete, Inc. ( NASDAQ : USCR ) announced today that the National Ready Mix Concrete Association (NRMCA) has recognized multiple U.S. Concrete business units for their commitment to excellence and safety. Winners were honored September 20th at the NRMCA's ConcreteWorks Conference located in Nashville, TN.

NRMCA 2016 Environmental Excellence Award The NRMCA's Environmental Excellence Award, now in its 21st year, recognizes NRMCA Producers for outstanding contributions to protecting the environment and maintaining sound environmental management practices in their operations. Central Concrete Supply Company, Inc., a northern California business unit of U.S. Concrete, was awarded first place in the Western Region Category for its Martinez, CA Plant and third place for its Redwood City, CA Plant.

NRMCA 2016 Excellence in Quality Awards U.S. Concrete's family of business units in U.S. Concrete's West Region, made up of 11 Central Concrete Supply Company, Inc. Plants and five Right-Away Redy Mix Plants, chosen as 2016 NRMCA Excellence in Quality Award recipients for Category A (annual production exceeding 1 million cubic yards). The NRMCA noted, "Winning producers have demonstrated that they followed and exceeded quality management principles over a broad range of activities from commitment to quality, materials management, managing production facilities, product quality control and maintaining a high level of customer satisfaction."

NRMCA Excellence in Safety Awards A total of 38 U.S. Concrete plants across the nation were recognized by the NRMCA for their safety performance. The three-tiers of "Excellence in Safety Awards" are broken into Gold, Silver and Bronze.

• A total of 28 U.S. Concrete Plants received the Gold Award, noting an incident rate equal to zero, including:
  • Atlas-Tuck Concrete (Five Plants) Location: Oklahoma
  • Central Concrete Supply Company (Seven Plants) Location: California
  • Redi-Mix Concrete (14 Plants) Location: Texas
  • Right-Away Redy Mix (Two Plants) Location: California

• A total of eight U.S. Concrete Plants received the Silver Award, noting an incident rate greater than zero and equal to or less than 3.15 (1/2 the industry average)
  • Central Concrete Supply Company (Three Plants) Location: California
  • Custom-Crete (Three Plants) Location: Texas
  • Redi-Mix Concrete (Two Plants) Location: Texas

• A total of two U.S. Concrete Plants received the Bronze Award, noting an incident rate greater than 3.15 and less than 6.3
  • Redi-Mix Concrete (Two Plants) Location: Texas

About U.S. Concrete, Inc. U.S. Concrete, Inc. (the "Company" or "U.S. Concrete") serves the construction industry in several major markets in the United States through its two business segments: ready-mixed concrete and aggregate products. The Company has 155 standard ready-mixed concrete plants, 16 volumetric ready-mixed concrete facilities, and 14 producing aggregates facilities. During 2015, U.S. Concrete sold approximately 7.0 million cubic yards of ready-mixed concrete and approximately 4.9 million tons of aggregates. For more information on U.S. Concrete, visit www.us-concrete.com .

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Source: USCR-G