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J. Don Brock, Ph.D., P.E.
President & Chairman of the Board, Astec Industries, Inc.

J. Don Brock began his inventive engineering career early by learning how to weld at the age of eight. In 1965, after he received his first patent for a high-speed carpet dryer, he sold the patent and used the money to build interest in his father's asphalt heating company. Over the next 30+ years, he became one of the asphalt paving industry's leading authorities with many distinguished awards: the 1983 NAPA Man of the Year; the 1984 Chattanooga Area Engineering Societies' Engineer of the Year (and 1988 Inventor of the Year); and the 1998 Nathan W. Doughterty Award from the University of Tennessee for distinguished service in engineering. Don formed Astec, Inc. in 1972, which builds hot-mix asphalt plants that have revolutionized the asphalt industry.

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