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For well over 30 years, Champagne & Marx Excavating Inc. has been providing excavation services throughout mid-Michigan. With a wealth of experience in site development, highway construction, roadbuilding, and other related applications, the company recently branched out into the recycling business.

Now that their recycling business is as mature as their excavating business, Champagne & Marx relies heavily on productive and dependable equipment to ensure they maintain the most efficient operations possible. Founded by Tom Marx and his partner, Frank Champagne, the company was eventually acquired in full by the Marx family. And having since retired, Tom's son, David Marx, now leads the organization.

Marx recalled the catalyst that eventually led to the addition of recycling services at the excavation company.

"At the time, much of the concrete from our jobsites was either being taken to landfills, or being stockpiled back here at our facility," he says. As tipping fees and transportation costs increased, recycling the material began to make sense, he notes.

"We recognized that we could recycle that material, and repurpose it as road stone, driveway stone and other filler material," he says.