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Agate Steel company history timeline

1973

Jim Uhl, a Marine Officer and Vietnam War Veteran founded Agro Construction, which was primarily an agricultural construction company at the time, on the Salt River Maricopa Pima Indian Community in 1973.

1977

Rick and Lou have known each other since 1977 when they went to Chandler High School and then on to college together at Arizona State University.

1985

Uhl and Primak met each other and started working together at Agro Construction in 1985, while Lou was attending Arizona State University’s Del E. Webb School of Construction.

2016

In 2016, after being at the helm of the business for 43 years, Uhl began the process of transitioning the ownership of the three entities, Agate Construction, Agate Steel and Agate Concrete to Lou Primak and Rick Nichols.

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