A family-owned Wisconsin concrete manufacturer has bought one of West Michigan's oldest precast concrete companies, and the Muskegon operation is staying exactly where it is. Wieser Concrete Products of Maiden Rock, Wisconsin, has acquired Bush Concrete Products, the 99-year-old manufacturer based in Muskegon, marking Wieser's first operation in Michigan.
The acquisition closed this month, according to MLive, which reports that the Muskegon facility will continue operating under the Wieser Concrete name while keeping its current location and workforce. Calder Capital, which brokered the sale, confirmed the transaction in its own announcement, describing it as “the successful sale of Bush Concrete Products, Inc. of Muskegon, Michigan, to Wieser Concrete Products, Inc. of Maiden Rock, Wisconsin,” according to Calder Capital. The firm says it reached out to prospective buyers with 307 confidential information memorandums and fielded 39 indications of interest before the Bush team narrowed the field to three letters of intent for consideration.
A Long Run in West Michigan Changes Hands
Bush Concrete Products traces its roots back to 1927, when Benjamin H. Bush founded the Bush Vault Company in Coopersville, Michigan, per the company's own account on Bush Concrete Products' history page. The business later relocated from an overcrowded Muskegon Heights location to its present site on Airline Road, where it has become a supplier of septic tanks, sign bases, manholes, catch basins and other precast concrete products, per the same account. MLive notes that Bush has served West Michigan since 1927, and that the combined companies now bring more than 160 years of precast concrete industry experience to the table.
Wieser Concrete, for its part, was founded in 1965 by Joseph H. Wieser near Maiden Rock, Wisconsin, and remains family owned and operated, with second- and third-generation family members involved in the business, according to Wieser Concrete's company page. The company now employs more than 200 team members and manufactures precast concrete products for agricultural, underground, highway, commercial and specialty applications, distributing throughout the United States as well as parts of Canada and Mexico, per the same page.
Leadership Promises a Seamless Transition
Andy Wieser, CEO of Wieser Concrete Products, framed the deal as both a tribute to Bush's legacy and a vote of confidence in its Muskegon workforce, per MLive. He said Bush had nearly a century of history, that Wieser respected what Bush had built, and that the company was excited to welcome its employees and continue the customer relationships they had developed. He added that the company's priority was “a seamless transition” that brings “additional resources, capabilities and product opportunities to the Muskegon operation.” Wieser Concrete also said customers can expect continued service and products, with access to expanded precast concrete solutions going forward, per the same report.
With the Muskegon deal, Wieser now operates eight locations across Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois and Michigan, including five production facilities, according to MLive. That footprint has been expanding on multiple fronts: In 2018, Wieser Concrete was in the middle of a $1.5 million expansion at its Portage, Wisconsin facility, adding 20,000 square feet of manufacturing space and 2,400 square feet of office space. The project was expected to wrap up the following March and create five to 10 additional jobs, according to Wisconsin State Journal.
Timing Lines Up With a Stronger Infrastructure Market
The deal lands as industry forecasters see modest but real growth ahead for precast concrete producers. Total U.S. construction put in place is projected to reach roughly $2.2 trillion in 2026, up just 1% after a slight decline the prior year, according to the National Precast Concrete Association. Infrastructure-heavy categories are expected to outpace that overall pace considerably: sewage and waste-disposal construction is projected up 8% to about $56 billion, water supply is expected to rise 5% to about $37 billion, and transportation spending is projected up 3% to roughly $71 billion, the trade group reports. Its outlook advises precast producers to lean into infrastructure and institutional segments with sturdier funding, a category that lines up well with the septic tanks, manholes and catch basins that have long been Bush's bread and butter.
Consolidation among precast makers has been a running theme in the Midwest in recent years. Mid-States Concrete Industries acquired Architectural Precast Inc. of Browntown, Wisconsin, in 2024, and separately picked up a Germantown, Wisconsin precast concrete maker that had worked on projects including Lambeau Field, according to Mid-States Concrete Industries. Elsewhere in the sector, Commercial Metals Company completed its acquisition of Concrete Pipe & Precast LLC in December 2025, the company announced via PR Newswire.
For now, the most immediate local takeaway is continuity: the Muskegon plant keeps its name on the sign, its address and its employees, even as it joins a larger, Wisconsin-rooted company with ambitions to expand its reach into Michigan for the first time.
