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                    April 29, 2024

       Heinrich Jonker
       Interim Chief Financial Officer
       Astec Industries, Inc.
       1725 Shepherd Road
       Chattanooga, TN 37421

                                                        Re: Astec Industries,
Inc.
                                                            Form 10-K for the
Year Ended December 31, 2023
                                                            Filed February 28,
2024
                                                            File No. 001-11595

       Dear Heinrich Jonker:

               We issued comments to you on the above captioned filing on April
5, 2024. As of the
       date of this letter, these comments remain outstanding and unresolved.
We expect you to provide
       a complete, substantive response to these comments by May 13, 2024.

               If you do not respond, we will, consistent with our obligations
under the federal securities
       laws, decide how we will seek to resolve material outstanding comments
and complete our
       review of your filing and your disclosure. Among other things, we may
decide to release
       publicly, through the agency's EDGAR system, all correspondence,
including this letter, relating
       to the review of your filings, consistent with the staff's decision to
publicly release comment and
       response letters relating to disclosure filings it has reviewed.

             Please contact Anastasia Kaluzienski at 202-551-3685 or Robert
Littlepage at 202-551-
       3361 with any questions.




                    Sincerely,


                    Division of Corporation Finance

                    Office of Technology