Case Study
Planning A Start-Up
Experience in manufacturing has paid off for Buzz Chinnis, president and owner of Triangle Aggregates, Inc., a relatively new mine operation in Jackson, Alabama. Chinnis retired about two years ago from a dredge-equipment manufacturing business he helped found in 1982. In May 2004, he purchased a pit and ordered a crushing-and-screen plant that went operational in January 2006. Between those two dates was a lot of research and planning. Like all