Concrete Producer Magazine Ceases Publication

*The following was posted earlier this month by The Concrete Producer's Editor Bill Palmer.

The information age has a puzzling way of disrupting outstanding information sources, such as The Concrete Producer. After serving the concrete production and precast industry for more than 35 years, the magazine, website, and newsletter will no longer exist as a standalone title after August 2018.

Over the years, those who have contributed to TCP sounds like a who’s who of the concrete industry: Bruce Suprenant, Rick Yelton, Ward Malisch, Terry Holland, Frank Kozeliski, Colin Lobo, Jay Shilstone, Mary Hurd, John Albinger, Bob Garbini, Pierre Villere, Craig Yeack. The magazine’s editors have included Terry Holland, Rick Yelton, Shelby Mitchell, and Tom Bagsarian. The publication, that started out as The Concrete Journal then became The Concrete Producer in 1995, explained the intricacies of concrete production and delivery and celebrated the industry's leaders.

The archived content of TCP will remain available on Concrete Construction’s web site and the always-popular columnist Pierre Villere will continue to write a monthly column that will appear in CC’s Industry Update newsletter. All unique subscribers to TCP's Update newsletter will be automatically signed up to receive CC's newsletter. You can also subscribe to that newsletter by clicking here. Pierre has written a heartfelt farewell column, End of an Era, that you can read here.

The end of The Concrete Producer as a magazine is troubling to me, but we really had no choice. It simply wasn’t making a profit anymore. While the ready-mixed concrete business continues to thrive, and the demand for information has never been stronger, the industry apparently is looking elsewhere and using different techniques to convey its message. Our world is changing at a blistering pace and some things, like magazines, get left behind.