by Kerry Clines | Contributing Editor
PLANT PROFILE
14
AGGREGATES MANAGER / July 2016
Keep
on
Rockin'
It, Baby
S
ome of you may have at-
tended AGG1 in Nashville
a few months ago, and you
may have made it out to
Rogers Group Inc.'s Rutherford Quarry
for the NSSGA-sponsored tour of that
operation. If you didn't go on the tour,
you really missed out. This quarry
is large, extremely busy, and quite
strikingly beautiful from the front
entrance to the bottom of the pit.
"We try to keep things nice," says
Travis McGaffee, area production man-
ager for Rutherford Quarry and several
other quarries in southeast Tennessee.
"We keep things in good repair. When
you drive into our operation, it looks
clean and nice. I think we've got one
of the nicest looking pits. I'm proud to
show people this quarry."
The limestone quarry was opened
near Murfreesboro, Tenn., in 1985
by Stoneman, after which it passed
through Lehigh Hanson's hands and
was eventually acquired by Rogers
Group in 2000. Since then, it has
become one of the top aggregate
producers in the area, mainly because
of all the growth going on in that part
of the state.
Busy doesn't even begin to describe a typical day
at Rutherford Quarry in southeastern Tennessee.