History

Where We’ve Been Tells You Where We’re Headed

Hanson is part of the HeidelbergCement Group, which employs 70,000 people across five continents. HeidelbergCement is the global leader in aggregates and has leading positions in cement, concrete and heavy building products.

Hanson itself is a combination of three previous companies whose roots date back to the origins of concrete pressure pipe produced in North America:

• Gifford-Hill-American in 1998, Hanson completed the purchase of Gifford-Hill-American (GHA), a concrete pressure pipe producer in Texas since 1946.
  
• Price Brothers Company in early 2007, Hanson purchased Price Brothers Company (PBC), an Ohio-based company with concrete pressure pipe business origins that can be traced back to 1926.
  
• Hyprescon Inc. Later in 2007, Hanson completed the third step in the enlargement of its pressure pipe business with the purchase of Hyprescon, a company headquartered in Quebec, whose start in the concrete pressure pipe business dates to 1931.
  

Altogether these three components of Hanson Pressure Pipe have produced over 80,000,000 LF (15,000 miles) of concrete pressure pipe for use in most of the United States, all of Canada, and in several other countries.

In 2003, Hanson Pressure Pipe added a new state-of-the-art steel pipe plant in Texas to produce steel pressure pipe to further diversify its commitment to the pressure pipe market.

Today, more than 1,000 employees at nine plants—located in five states and two Canadian provinces—produce Hanson concrete pressure pipe and fittings.