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1850
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1853Builders Sand & Gravel founded by Hans Koos in Davenport, IA.

1860
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1860Builders Sand & Gravel is a key material supplier for the construction of the Rock Island Arsenal.
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1869John Henry Hahn purchases property off Stewart Road in Muscatine

1880
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1884Hahn Bro's Commission Merchants Begins as an agricultural sales company in Muscatine, founded by John Henry Hahn, George Hahn, and Henry Hahn.
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1888W.G. Block is founded in Davenport, IA as a coal and Ice supplier.

1890
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1890Hahn Bros enters the lumber business, and then exits by 1895.

1910
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1917Hahn Bro's, Inc. is the largest supplier of cabbage to the U.S. military in WWI.

1920
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1923Henry Hahn and family start dredging sand from the family farm. At some point, Robert Hahn invents the world's first roller-bearing mounted centrifugal sand pump, and refuses to patent it.

1930
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1932Builders Sand & Cement acquired by Miss Ethel Delarue.

1950
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1950Builders enters the ready mix concrete industry.
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1952Edwards Ready Mix founded in Geneseo, IL.
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1955Robert Hahn and his son Tom set up Hahn's first ready mix concrete batch plant in Muscatine.

1980
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1980After Miss Delarue's passing, Builders is sold to Alter Corp.
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1981Hahn Bros Sand & Gravel reincorporates as Hahn Ready Mix
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1984Tom Hahn sets up Hahn's first automated batch plant in Muscatine.
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1988Hahn Ready Mix acquires Grunder & Sons Ready Mix with locations in West Liberty, Wilton, Durant and Walcott.

1990
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1991Hahn acquires Mercer County Ready Mix in Aledo, IL.
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1991Alter Corp sell Builders Sand & Cement to Ira Weindruch.
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1995Hahn sets up their first portable batch plant to service the construction of the IPSCO Steel Plant in Blue Grass, IA. The project consisted of over 90,000 cubic yards of concrete.
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1997Builders Sand and Cement acquired by Brian Hahn.

2010
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2012W.G. Block Co. and Edwards Ready Mix acquired by Brian Hahn.
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2017Block Ready Mix Group And Builders Sand & Cement merged into Hahn Ready Mix.
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2017Hahn Ready Mix is selected to supply the concrete for the new I-74 Bridge in the Quad Cities. Hahn supplied over 215,000 cubic yards to the project over four and a half years.
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2023The I-74 Bridge project and Hahn team wins the International ACI Excellence in Concrete Award for top Infrastructure Project.