According to Craig Duos, executive director, Concrete and Aggregates Association of Louisiana, most ready mixed producers driven out of service due to the hurricane were back in, or nearly ready for, business mid to late month. New Orleans multi-plant operator Carlo Ditta Inc. had two sites running by late September. Two other plants were without power, a problem likewise confronting single-plant producer Owens & Sons Inc. Duos explained that poor communications in the area made it difficult to keep track of some member facilities.

Lafarge North America's New Orleans airport ready mixed plant was on track to resume production by late month. At that point, the company had most of its 15 Louisiana plants in service, with a sizeable number of employees having returned to work

All totalled, about 200 mixers, or 20 percent Louisiana's fleet, were taken out of commission as a result of hurricane-related damage, according to Duos, who added that of that number, 140 were back in service by the middle of September.