Southern Star Concrete, Inc. or simply Southern Star is a

concrete Concrete is a composite material composed of fine and coarse aggregate bonded together with a fluid cement (cement paste) that hardens (cures) over time. Concrete is the second-most-used substance in the world after water, and is the most wi ...

supply business headquartered in

Irving, Texas Irving is a city in the U.S. state of Texas. Located in Dallas County, it is also an inner ring suburb of Dallas. The city of Irving is part of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. According to a 2019 estimate from the United States Census Bureau, ...

. Southern Star is owned by Cementos Argos S.A., the largest cement producer in

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. Cementos Argos is subsidiary of

Inversiones Argos Grupo Argos S.A is a Colombian conglomerate with large investments in the cement and energy industries. Its cement company Argos has operations in Colombia, the United States, Panamá, Honduras and the Caribbean. Celsia, its energy company, owns ...

, which in turn belongs to a larger conglomerate called

Grupo Empresarial Antioqueño The ''Grupo Empresarial Antioqueño'' (GEA, Business Group of Antioquia) also known as ''Sindicato Antioqueño'', is a Colombian conglomerate composed by around 125 companies, most of them based in Antioquia Department. Though, legally speaking, ...

based in

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, Colombia. Argos acquired full ownership of Southern Star Concrete in November 2005 in a purchase agreement with the former owners, Texas Growth Fund and

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, both based in Austin, Texas. In 2019, Southern Star sold their Arkansas assets to SRM Concrete, a privately-owned materials supply company based out of Nashville, Tennessee. Then in 2021, Argos sold the Dallas/Fort Worth portion of Southern Star to SRM Concrete. Argos currently only operates the Houston area Southern Star locations.

External links

Southern Star official website
Building materials companies of the United States Manufacturing companies based in Irving, Texas