North Texas sand capacity is getting a modest addition, and the reason it matters to a contractor has less to do with the plant than with the miles between it and your jobsite. Resolve Aggregates is adding a plant at a greenfield site in Fannin County sized to process up to 330 tons per hour of quarried sand and aggregates. For contractors working the northeast side of the metro, another regional source is another door to knock on when your usual pit is backed up.
Most supply news does not change a contractor’s day. This kind quietly does, because it moves the haul.
Resolve Aggregates is adding a plant at a greenfield site in Fannin County, about three miles from its existing Ravenna facility, sized to process up to 330 tons per hour of quarried sand and aggregates. Resolve ranks 70th on the U.S. Geological Survey’s list of the top 100 sand and gravel producers in the United States.
Here is why a plant two counties out belongs in your planning. Transportation is the largest swing in what you actually pay for a delivered load of material. Rock is heavy and cheap relative to the cost of moving it, so the distance between the source and the jobsite decides how much of your dollar goes to freight instead of material.
“Transportation is the largest single variable in delivered aggregate cost, because haul distance, not the rock, drives what you pay.”
Source: Aggregates Now field guidance, July 2026
The practical impact is optionality rather than price relief. Added capacity in Fannin County does not lower your quote by itself. What it does is shorten the haul on jobs in the northeast corner of the metro and give you a real alternative when the pit you normally run is committed to somebody else’s job.
That matters more this year than last. With a heavy TxDOT letting year and major private programs running across North Texas, local pits get committed early, and a contractor with one supply relationship carries more risk than they did a season ago.
The move is to know your second and third source before you need them. Confirm what each one can actually deliver on your material and gradation, whether that is sand and utility sand or crushed limestone rock, and keep those relationships current rather than cold.
The forward view is that regional capacity additions like this one are the counterweight to the consolidation happening above them. The producers are getting bigger, and independent regional capacity is what keeps a contractor’s options open.
Every mile between the pit and the jobsite is on your invoice whether anyone itemizes it or not.
Know your second source before you need it. Call 214-282-7980 or request a quote at aggregatesnow.com.