Time for...Ice Rinks?

Sure, it's been a little chilly this summer, but it still might seem a bit early to be thinking about ice skating season. However, now is the perfect time to get your backyard in gear for skating and winter hockey on your own rink.



Team Elmer's can create the rink right on a level section of your lawn or, if you don't want to wait for the next snowfall, we can build a year-round sport court for summer roller hockey, basketball or whatever tickles your fancy.

For more information on how to get your yard sport-ready, call (231) 943-3443 or e-mail info@teamelmers.com. 

A million yards of concrete!

Not to toot our own horn, but a million of anything is a heck of a lot... And we at Team Elmer’s recently sold, mixed and poured our millionth cubic yard of concrete out of our Traverse City plant!


















Glen Lake Narrows, site of the milestone project

The “magic number” was reached during a Michigan Department of Transportation bridge project at the Glen Lake Narrows.

Although Team Elmer’s has been operating for over five decades, we only began producing concrete at our own plant currently located off M-37/US-31 in Traverse City in 1990. The million yards have been produced and poured since that date.

"Get a load" of these interesting statistics related to the milestone:

• The first yard of concrete that Team Elmer’s poured from its own plant was at the Dennos Museum at Northwestern Michigan College during its construction in 1990.

• John Meddaugh, who serves as the quality assurance officer for concrete, has served in that capacity since 1990, and has overseen the mixing of all one million cubic yards.

• One million cubic yards of concrete is the equivalent of 2,083 lineal miles of B-2 concrete curbing, the same type poured on many Michigan Highways, which would stretch from Traverse City to Las Vegas, Nevada.
  
  
  Driver Wally Field delivered the millionth yard of concrete

• Our concrete is used in dozens of residential and commercial applications, including driveways, sidewalks, curbs, and building foundations. Some unique concrete applications include underwater buoy anchors, concrete countertops, boat ramps, and decorative stamped concrete.

• In 1990 when the plant opened, it was the only Team Elmer’s concrete plant. Today, we operate thirteen concrete plants serving Northern Lower Michigan.

• Team Elmer's professionals have handled concrete projects at many major construction projects in the area, including both Traverse City high schools and middle schools, several churches and elementary schools, the Grand Traverse Mall, Munson Medical Center, the Park Place Hotel, and many more.

To learn more about Team Elmer’s concrete, call (231) 943-3443 or email info@teamelmers.com.