Astec Industries, Inc. designs, engineers, manufactures, and markets equipment and components for the road building, aggregate processing, geothermal, water, oil and gas, and wood processing industries in the United States and internationally. The company's Infrastructure Group segment provides hot-mix asphalt plants, wood pellet plants, asphalt pavers, material transfer vehicles, soil stabilizing reclaiming machinery, milling machines, paver screeds, and related ancillary equipment. This segment serves asphalt producers, highway and heavy equipment contractors, and governmental agencies. Its Aggregate and Mining Group segment offers jaw and cone crushers, horizontal and vertical shaft impactors, material handling products, roll rock crushers, stationary rockbreaker systems, vibrating equipment, conveyors, inclined products, vertical and horizontal screens, and sand classifying and washing equipment. This segment serves distributors, open mine operators, quarry operators, port and inland terminal operators, highway and heavy equipment contractors, and governmental agencies. The company's Energy Group segment offers thermal fluid heaters, process heaters, waste heat recovery equipment, liquid storage systems, and polymer and rubber blending systems; thermal fluid heaters, portable and stationary storage tanks, and rubberized asphalt and polymer blending systems; drilling rigs and related equipment; whole-tree pulpwood chippers, biomass chippers, horizontal grinders and blower trucks; commercial and industrial burners and combustion control systems; and stationary and portable, central mix and ready mix concrete batch plants, concrete mixers and concrete paving equipment. This segment serves oil and gas field operators, industrial product manufacturers, independent contractors, ready mix concrete producers, heating equipment distributors, and government agencies. The company was founded in 1972 and is based in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
