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JESSICA LOMBARDO, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Why One Illinois Contractor Specializes in
SOIL STABILIZATION Mt. Carmel Soil Stabilization operates 20 crews across the United States with 300 employees and over 300 pieces of specialized equipment for their jobs.
Mt. Carmel turns relatively unknown service into their main business operation, making them the leading midwest provider of stabilization solutions for over 70 years
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elebrating over 70 years of stabilization does not happen by accident. Mt. Carmel Soil Stabilization, based in Illinois, consciously chose to be the contractor of choice in this niche business and their 300-person team works hard to educate their customers about their projects and the need for their services. "We started out over a century ago, with sand and gravel works along the Wabash River, not far from our home town of Mt. Carmel, Il. Thirty years
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later, we began doing full depth reclamation on county roads. After another thirty years, we began expanding into lime and cement stabilization. And that’s where we have stayed until today – doing what we do best," Neil Ryan, president of Mt. Carmel Soil Stabilization says. "Nevertheless, our goal is to be even better in everything we do – and this is driven by our constant commitment to innovation and quality." Today, Mt Carmel operates 20 crews across the country with more than 300 pieces of specialized equipment, all while touting the benefits of their services to their customers. EDUCATION COMES FIRST Many contractors know what is best for their customers and the projects they are hired to complete but it takes education to make customers understand that the right fix might not even be one they have heard of before. Soil stabilization is the method of choice when it comes to assuring the load-bearing capacity
and quality of soil in preparation for road construction and civil engineering projects, but many project owners don't know of the benefits this service provides. The majority of Mt. Carmel's projects involve soil stabilization for roads and highways of all kinds and the preparation of sites for industrial developments, but it takes the dedication of their team to educate their customers and keep soil stabilization top of mind on these projects. "We work to convince customers that soil stabilization is the best choice based on the many benefits it provides," Kelly Crowder, vice president of equipment & facilities at Mt. Carmel Soil Stabilization says. "The method makes the replacement of soils with poor load bearing capacities more or less superfluous. Moving earth with excavators, loading it onto trucks, taking it away for disposal, and then trucking load bearing soil to the site and spreading it is a much more costly alternative. On most of our
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