Tilcon's Plainville Quarry Earns NSSGA's Pinnacle Community Relations Award
Section: Awards

Tilcon's Director of Marketing Stacey Porto Receives NSSGA's Pinnacle Community Relations Award for Plainville Quarry

Tilcon’s Plainville Quarry has earned the National Stone Sand and Gravel Association's (NSSGA) 2006 Pinnacle Community Relations Award.  Tilcon received the Pinnacle Award, the most prestigious award in the Community Relations category, for its extensive community relations program of five-plus years that included the following areas: community outreach, donations to Habitat for Humanity as well as to local schools, police and firefighters and nonprofits, government involvement, communications, education, media relations, and plant appearance.

“We are thrilled with the award and consider it a great honor.  Tilcon and its employees take great pride in being good corporate citizens, and, we believe, as a leading supplier of quality goods and services in CT, that it’s our corporate responsibility to help better our neighborhoods,” said Tilcon’s President Rick Mergens. 

"All of the award winners are perfect examples of what good neighbors and responsible corporate citizens should look and act like. This comes from opening doors to community involvement, committing to service and support, and actively teaching neighbors about the importance of aggregates in America's daily life," said NSSGA President and CEO Joy Wilson.

NSSGA’s Community Relations Program began in 1989 to recognize aggregate producers whose community involvement and support activities have enhanced the public's perception of the aggregates industry in general and the public image of the individual producer's aggregate operation in particular.

Based near the nation's capital, NSSGA is the world's largest mining association by product volume. Its member companies represent more than 90 percent of the crushed stone and 70 percent of the sand and gravel produced annually in the U.S. and approximately 117,000 working men and women in the aggregates industry. During 2005, a total of about 3.2 billion metric tons of crushed stone, sand and gravel, valued at $17.4 billion, were produced and sold in the United States.