Alliedmineral: Allied Mineral Products makes another acquisition in Alabama

Allied Mineral Products has made its second acquisition this year of an Alabama company to boost its manufacturing presence in the Southeast. The company is buying Riverside Refractories Inc., and the deal includes the company's Pell City Alabama manufacturing operation. In January, we reported that the Columbus-based maker of refractory materials used to line foundry furnaces and metal-casting molds had made its biggest deal ever when it acquired Pryor-Giggey Co. of Anniston, Alabama. "Riverside...