Raymond Pignone reports for Columbia-Greene Media that Peckham Industries, with a Hudson River terminal in Athens, has bought E. Tetz & Sons of Middletown for an undisclosed amount as the company expands into the southern Hudson Valley. Tetz is the leading aggregate, ready-mix concrete, and hot-mix asphalt producer in Orange County, while Peckham does similar work in New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Vermont. Peckham employs 1,200 people at more than 30 facilities, and is adding 130 more employees with this purchase. Read more about this story at HudsonValley360.com.