1. The new stations will include 13 new concrete batching plants, raising their total to 70.

2. According to Kleiner, the batching and mixing plants used by Al Tawi put the company on the leading edge of concrete mixing and distribution anywhere in the world.

3. With the advent of the Saudi mining industry, earthmoving equipment was building in a big way as were the concrete mixers and batching machinery.

4. The sales forecast by the end of 2006 is expected to push the company’s ranking even further up the list. «We apply the highest international quality benchmarks in all aspects of our business, and we were delighted when this commitment to excellence was affirmed recently by the Arab News Business Survey which ranked Saudi Readymix among the Kingdom’s top 100 companies, especially considering we are the only ready–mixed concrete company to be included,» Alturki pointed out. «We are enormously proud to have earned official recognition for the achievements we are making in sales, growth and staff training.» The drive toward sustained growth and expansion has seen the construction of two commercial stations and one on–site concrete batching plant in different locations across the Kingdom in the last quarter alone, bringing the total number of plants in Saudi Readymix’s network to 1' commercial and five on–site ready–mixed concrete stations.