How Vulcan Materials paved its way to digital success [Video]

Company-first CIO Krzysztof Soltan and his team helped transform the construction-aggregates giant with a focus on digitizing operations, modernizing infrastructure, and overhauling how IT goes about its business.

Credit: Krzysztof Soltan / Vulcan Materials

In a recent “all-hands” meeting, Krzysztof Soltan, CIO of Vulcan Materials, announced his IT organization would continue its “laser focus on digital transformation.”

Digital technology, he explained, would remain a central focus of the construction-aggregates industry and would underpin customer-grade experiences increasingly expected from industry leaders. Vulcan, based in Birmingham, Ala., is the nation’s largest construction aggregates company, producing materials such as crushed stone, sand, and gravel, with strategic downstream assets like asphalt and ready-mixed in select markets. Soltan, previously a tech leader at Johnson Controls, ABB, and GE, became the company’s first CIO just two years ago and is at the forefront of the company’s digital transformation efforts.

Soltan and his fellow leaders attribute Vulcan’s success to many things, but chief …