Week Two- Fred Weber and New Frontier Materials

This week I spent half the time across the street at New Frontier Materials and the other half with Glenn at Fred Weber again. New Frontier Materials bought out most of Fred Weber last June so the employees from both companies still know each other well.

On Monday I spent the day with Nick who is a quality control guy for New Frontier. He took me with him to the New Melle Quarry and told me all about what types of rock go in certain cement and asphalt mixes and what the state regulates about those processes. We took some samples and brought them back to the lab to test.

On Tuesday I went with Glenn to meet with the Engineers at Hurst-Rosche Engineering firm about an issue at a quarry FW owns.

On Wednesday I worked with Glenn and Mark Denton, Vice President at Fred Weber. They gave me a little research project where I am creating a list of competitors and compiling all public data on them and their production capabilities. I basically spent the whole day doing this.

On Thursday I spent the day with Ken Kampman at New Frontier and we went down to Iron Mountain Trap Rock Quarry near Farmington, MO. We flew a drone over the to get volumes on all the stockpiles to essentially take stock of the rock that was ready to be sold and make sure that the amount that was actually there corresponded to the amount in the books.