CASS TWP. \u2014 Quandel Concrete and Boger Concrete, a Lebanon County company, recently merged to form BQ Concrete, the company announced.<\/p>\n
BQ Concrete is part of the Byler Materials Group, a Lancaster County family of construction companies that does business in Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter seven years in business together through our joint venture, we\u2019ve made the decision that the two companies are stronger together,\u201d Jonathan Byler, president, said in a news release.<\/p>\n
Chris Rowlands, BQ Concrete operations manager in Cass Twp., said the merger became official on Feb. 1.<\/p>\n
The merger roughly doubles the size of the Quandel Concrete fleet to around 60 ready-mix trucks, Rowlands said, enabling the new company to undertake larger construction projects.<\/p>\n
Rowlands and his sister, Katie Carr, have managed Quandel Concrete since 2023, he said.<\/p>\n
Ronald and Bonnie Rowlands, their parents, owned the business with the late James W. Quandel Jr., Bonnie\u2019s brother.<\/p>\n
Established in 1946, James W. Quandel & Sons manufactured ready-mix concrete, retaining wall blocks and concrete accessories.<\/p>\n
Quandel and Boger had worked together on construction projects for about several years.<\/p>\n
When a fire damaged Quandel\u2019s Cass Twp. operation in January 2023, Boger stepped in to help by supplying ready-mix concrete.<\/p>\n
The Cass Twp. plant is located at 9 Schaeffer Hill Road, just outside Minersville.<\/p>\n
In addition to Cass Twp., BQ Concrete has plants in Annville Twp. in Lebanon County, South Middleton Twp. near Carlisle and Lower Swatara Twp. in Dauphin County.<\/p>\n
Byler Materials Group purchased Boger Concrete in 2007. Its other companies include Merrick Sand & Gravel and Byler Trucking Services and Byler Quarries, a joint venture with Quandel Concrete in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CASS TWP. \u2014 Quandel Concrete and Boger Concrete, a Lebanon County company, recently merged to form BQ Concrete,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[32],"tags":[328,93,674,8819,42,1544,8820],"class_list":["post-16917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lebanon","tag-business","tag-lebanon","tag-local-news","tag-minersville","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-schuylkill-county"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116219164898779399","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}