Shreveport, LA — A long-time leader and Shreveport business owner has been tapped to take on a national leadership role to help guide America’s top advocacy association for the $56 billion U.S. concrete production and delivery revenue industry. 

G. Carlton Golden, Jr., President of Builders Supply Company, Inc. a leading regional supplier to 16 parishes in located in Shreveport, Louisiana, has been elected to serve as Secretary/Treasurer for the National Ready Mixed Concreate Association (NRMCA) board of directors. Golden is a long-standing industry advocate, having served on the NRMCA board of directors for 14 years beginning in 2009 and on the association’s executive committee for four terms. 

“My service to NRMCA has been a long-term career commitment because the decisions we make as an industry have tremendous impact in our country and around the world,” said Golden. “As concrete is the most widely used construction material, it is incumbent on industry leadership to be thoughtful and visionary about issues of global importance, like sustainability, decarbonization, and continually creating innovative technologies for better performance and protections for our environment.” 

According to the Concrete Financial Insights Index, an online resource provided by the NRMCA, the concrete industry is valued at $56 billion, which includes concrete production and delivery revenue and is based on the average 2022 selling price. NRMCA members spend an estimated $8.4 billion annually on products and services. The NRMCA and its Build with Strength coalition are part of a global consortium of ready mixed concrete and cement trade organizations committing to a net-zero carbon emission industry by 2050.  Since 2014, National Ready Mixed Concrete Association members have reduced their emissions by 21%.

In addition to Golden’s long history of service with NRMCA, Golden is currently serving with the Bossier Public Trust Financing Authority, the Industrial Board of Bossier Parish, Greater Bossier Economic Development Foundation, C100 Louisiana— a Louisiana Roundtable working to shape Louisiana policy— and the Infrastructure Council as part of Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry’s Transition Team.

Some of his previous volunteer leadership and board of directors work spanning his business career of almost 40 years includes: Concrete Aggregates of Louisiana; Interstate 49 International Coalition; the Shreveport and Bossier chambers of commerce; Shreveport-Bossier Convention & Tourist Bureau;

Industrial Development Board of the Parish of Bossier, Louisiana, Inc.; Bossier Land Use & Development

Master Plan Committee; Better Business Bureau, and Rotary Club of Shreveport. He is also a recognized Rotary International Paul Harris Fellow for his community service and support of The Rotary Foundation’s humanitarian efforts around the world.  

Golden joined his family’s business at Builders Supply (established in 1913), where he worked full time upon graduating from Louisiana Tech in 1985. He has served as President for Builders Supply since 2009 and is the fourth President in the company’s 111 years in business.

ABOUT BUILDERS SUPPLY COMPANY

Established in 1913, Builders Supply Company, Inc. is a provider of ready-mixed concrete and building materials for commercial and industrial buildings, homes, apartments, streets, highways, and other types of construction projects. Owned and operated by the Golden family in Shreveport, Louisiana, the company serves Northwest and Central Louisiana. An industry pioneer, Builders Supply began delivering building materials with mules and wagons in 1913 and had the first ready-mixed concrete trucks in North Louisiana in 1932. Today, Builders Supply continues to pioneer new and better ways to serve its customers and provide for the safety and comfort of its team who deliver that service. The company was one of the first in the U.S. to provide for the safer transport of compressed natural gas (CNG) by helping a manufacturer create a design with more protected placement of fuel tanks on industrial concrete trucks. 

The innovation has since been adopted by manufacturers as a model for other companies nationwide.   To learn more, visit www.builderssupply.net.