Midwest Concrete Materials already is producing and delivering concrete from a ready-mix plant it acquired Monday from LRM Industries Inc.

Midwest also sold the asphalt, recycling, trucking and construction business segments it had acquired from LRM to R.D. Johnson Excavating Co. Inc., another Lawrence contractor.

Steve Glass, LRM president, confirmed the sales but declined to discuss the transactions, other than to say that “interviews are still going on” for former LRM employees with the new owners of LRM’s business units.

Leading into the sales, LRM had about 80 employees.

“It is, in a sense, a day that has a degree of sadness to it, because the business had been in the family for so long,” said Glass, whose father, Travis, had managed the original Lawrence Ready Mix plant beginning in 1955 and had purchased it by 1960. “On the other hand, it’s a change we decided to make.”

Midwest Concrete Materials, he said, is “a good, family-owned business, and we’re happy it worked out with them.”

John Eichman, president of Midwest Concrete Materials, and Roger Johnson, CEO of R.D. Johnson, were not available for comment Monday afternoon.

Midwest Concrete Materials, which has operations in Manhattan, Wamego and Junction City, is seeking permission to open a sand plant on a 300-acre site north of Lawrence, near Midland Junction. The company had about 100 employees heading into Monday’s acquisition.