Texas Industries

What Texas Industries does

Texas Industries (TXI) was a Texas-based, US-incorporated manufacturer and seller of heavy construction materials, founded in 1946 and headquartered in Dallas, with an employee base of 5,001-10,000 prior to its 2014 acquisition. Following its 2014 acquisition by Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. (NYSE: MLM), Texas Industries ceased to exist as an independent operating entity and now operates as a wholly-owned subsidiary contributing cement and building materials capacity to the parent's portfolio. Martin Marietta Materials, the parent, was itself spun off in 1993 as a separate publicly traded company from Martin Marietta Company and is an S&P 500 Index member.

The combined platform manufactures and sells aggregates (crushed stone, sand, and gravel manufactured to specific grades), asphalt (batched to customer specifications), ready-mixed concrete (batched per project and poured at site), and specialty products including high-purity dolomitic lime via the Magnesia Specialties business, serving environmental, industrial, agricultural, and specialty applications worldwide. The underlying technology is physical manufacturing and logistics infrastructure — over 500 production/distribution facilities across 29 US states plus Canada and The Bahamas — augmented by digital customer-facing tools including an interactive Product Calculator for project-quote estimation and the eRocks dedicated e-commerce platform for online ordering of aggregates.

The business model is direct-to-consumer and project-driven: pricing is quote-based and unit-priced per material type, quantity, and delivery requirements, billed on a pay-as-you-go basis. Customers locate the nearest facility via the website's Facility Locator and request quotes through the Product Calculator or via direct sales teams at each location. Customer segmentation is horizontal, led by the US construction industry (residential and commercial projects of all sizes), with secondary exposure to environmental, industrial, and agricultural specialty-lime end-markets. GTM combines a nationwide network of facility-based field sales with an emerging digital ordering channel (eRocks).

Name

Texas Industries

Legal name

Martin Marietta Materials, Inc.

Website

https://txi.com

Company type

Public

Founded year

1993

Operating status

Acquired

Headcount range

5,001–10,000 employees

Short description

Texas Industries was a Dallas-based heavy construction materials manufacturer (cement, aggregates) acquired by Martin Marietta Materials in 2014 and now operating as a wholly-owned subsidiary, contributing Texas and southwest capacity to the parent's 500+ facility building materials platform.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Heavy Construction Materials

NAICS

Cement and Concrete Product Manufacturing (3273), Cement Manufacturing (327310), Other Concrete Product Manufacturing (327390)

SIC

Mining & Quarrying Of Nonmetallic Minerals (No Fuels) (1400), Concrete Products, Except Block & Brick (3272)

akta.pro primary industry

Aggregate Processing & Value-Added Products (Washing, Screening, Asphalt/Concrete Aggregates) (IMAKAHAH)

akta.pro secondary industries

Ready-Mix Concrete Production & Delivery (IMADAAAA), Construction Aggregates Mining & Processing (Sand, Gravel, Crushed Stone) (IMADAAAI), Asphalt Aggregates & Specialty Aggregates (Rail Ballast, Riprap, Lightweight) (IMADAAAJ)

Keywords

• Heavy construction materials
• Cement manufacturing
• Building materials
• Construction aggregates
• Ready-mixed concrete

Headquarters

HQ city

Dallas

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Operations, Supply Chain, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Aggregates Product Sales: Sale of high-quality crushed stone, sand and gravel manufactured to specific grades for construction projects of all sizes
2. Asphalt Sales: Production and sale of asphalt batches produced to customer specifications
3. Ready-Mixed Concrete Sales: Transported and poured at project site, batched specifically for each customer's construction project
4. Specialty Products: High-purity specialty products and dolomitic lime products used worldwide in environmental, industrial, agricultural, and specialty applications

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Texas Industries, Inc. engaged in the manufacture and sale of heavy construction materials, producing cement and related building products supplied to construction projects of all sizes. Following its 2014 acquisition by Martin Marietta Materials, the Texas Industries operations were integrated into a larger portfolio producing aggregates, asphalt, ready-mixed concrete, and specialty dolomitic lime products distributed through a network of 500+ facilities across North America.

Product overview

No product information available for Texas Industries in the provided source data. The source data contains information about Martin Marietta (a building materials company with aggregates, asphalt, ready-mixed concrete, and specialty products) and general Portland Cement market data, but no information specifically about Texas Industries products or services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• eRocks: An online platform operated by Martin Marietta for customers to order aggregates and building materials.

Quantifiable outcome

• 500+ facilities serving hundreds of communities from coast to coast

Named customers4 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Vulcan Materials Company: The largest U.S. producer of construction aggregates with a similar portfolio (crushed stone, sand & gravel, ready-mixed concrete, asphalt) and an analogous heavy-side building materials business model. The most direct product and competitive comparable to Texas Industries / Martin Marietta's aggregates base.
• Martin Marietta Materials: The acquirer of Texas Industries in 2014 and the operating parent of the legacy TXI business. Its aggregates/ready-mix/asphalt/specialty product mix is the closest mirror image of Texas Industries' post-merger operating profile.
• Smyrna Ready Mix Concrete, LLC (fka U.S. Concrete, Inc.): U.S. vertically integrated ready-mixed concrete and aggregates producer historically competing with Texas Industries in Texas and the Sun Belt. Comparable in product mix, customer type (contractors), and regional operating model.
• Summit Materials, Inc. U.S.-focused producer of aggregates, cement, ready-mix concrete, and asphalt with overlapping Texas and Sun Belt operations. Smaller scale than Martin Marietta but a close functional comparable to the Texas Industries legacy business.
• Eagle Materials Inc. U.S. manufacturer of cement, wallboard, concrete, and aggregates with notable Texas cement operations that historically competed with Texas Industries. Highly comparable business model and end-market mix.
• Cemex S.A.B. de C.V. Global cement, aggregates, and ready-mix concrete producer with extensive U.S. operations. Directly comparable to Texas Industries' cement-and-aggregates model, particularly in Texas and the Sun Belt where both have overlapping footprints.

Broad incumbents

• CRH plc: Global building materials leader with a sizable U.S. aggregates, asphalt, and concrete products business. Comparable to Texas Industries across cement, aggregates, and downstream heavy-side materials, though with a much wider geographic and product footprint.
• Heidelberg Materials: Global building materials group with a meaningful North American cement and aggregates franchise. Comparable on cement production economics and aggregates value chain, though globally diversified versus Texas Industries' regional focus.
• Holcim Ltd. One of the world's largest building materials groups, with significant cement, aggregates, and ready-mix concrete operations in North America. Broader geographic and product portfolio than Texas Industries, but directly comparable on cement and aggregates.

Emerging players

• Quikrete Holdings: North American leader in packaged/concrete products and a growing player in bulk aggregates and concrete. Adjacent business model (concrete-focused) with growing Sun Belt presence that increasingly intersects with Texas Industries' ready-mix and aggregates core.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/txi
• Xx.com/martinmarietta

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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