Southern Star Concrete, Inc. or simply Southern Star is a
concrete
Concrete is a composite material composed of aggregate bound together with a fluid cement that cures to a solid over time. It is the second-most-used substance (after water), the most–widely used building material, and the most-manufactur ...
supply business headquartered in
Irving, Texas
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. Southern Star is owned by
Cementos Argos S.A., the largest cement producer in
Colombia
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,
South America
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. Cementos Argos is subsidiary of
Inversiones Argos, which in turn belongs to a larger conglomerate called
Grupo Empresarial Antioqueño based in
Medellín
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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
Austin Ventures
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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