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    <div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">CURRENT REPORT<br>Pursuant to
Section&#160;13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934</font></div>
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event reported): <font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">July 23,
2008</font></div>
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of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of
Certain Officers.</font></div>
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Board of Directors of Astec Industries, Inc. (the "Company") voted to elect
Thomas W. Hill as a new director to fill a previously existing vacancy.&#160;
Mr. Hill's initial term as a director will expire at the Company's 2010 annual
meeting of shareholders.&#160; At this time, Mr. Hill has not been added to any
committees of the Board.</font></div>
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have been no arrangements or understandings between Mr. Hill and any other
person pursuant to which he was elected as a director.&#160; Mr. Hill will
receive compensation for his services as director in accordance with the
director compensation plan described under the heading "Director Compensation"
in the Company's definitive Proxy Statement dated&#160;March 5, 2008, and filed
with the commission on March 5, 2008.&#160; </font></div>
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Hill is the former Chief Executive Officer of Oldcastle, Inc.,
("Oldcastle")&#160;the North American arm of CRH, plc, one of the world&#8217;s
leading building materials companies based in Dublin, Ireland. Mr. Hill has
served on the RH Board of Directors since 2002. Before becoming CEO of
Oldcastle, Inc. in July of 2007, Mr. Hill ran the Materials Group as its Chief
Executive Officer for 15 years. He has been a leader in the transportation
industry for a number of years. He served as Chairman of the American Road and
Transportation Builders Association from 2002 to 2004, during congressional
consideration of the multi-year authorization bill &#8220;SAFETEA-LU.&#8221; During that
time he worked to develop legislative proposals that would address the
transportation infrastructure needs of the country, convened industry meetings
to develop a consensus position and testified before Congress on the need for
increased federal investment in transportation infrastructure. Mr. Hill also has
served as Treasurer of both the National Asphalt Pavement Association and the
National Stone Association, and remains active with ARTBA&#8217;s Executive Committee.
Tom is serving as Vice-Chairman of ARTBA&#8217;s Highway Reauthorization task force.
He started his career in 1980 with CRH as a Financial Analyst at Amcor in Ogden,
Utah. In 1982 he served as Vice President and General Manager of Westile in
Katy, Texas. In 1986 he became Vice President of Development for Oldcastle, Inc.
Mr. Hill received his MBA from Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland and a Bachelor
of Arts in Economics and History from Duke University.</font></font></div>
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a result of serving as the Chief Executive Officer of Oldcastle, Mr. Hill has an
indirect material interest in the customer relationship between the Company and
Oldcastle.&#160; Since&#160; January 1, 2008, Oldcastle has purchased
approximately $20,107,000 of equipment from the Company.&#160; Mr. Hill's
employment with Oldcastle terminated on June 30, 2008.</font></div><br></div>
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      F. McKamy Hall<br></font>F. McKamy Hall<br>Vice President and Chief
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