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About Big River Industries, Inc. |
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 Big River Industries, Inc. produces high quality expanded clay lightweight aggregates. These aggregates are used in a wide range of applications by customers throughout the South and Midwest.
The company began in 1954 with the production of Gravelite®, a rotary kiln expanded clay lightweight aggregate produced at the company's original location near Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In 1984 a second expanded clay lightweight aggregate, Livlite®, was added with the acquisition of the Tombigbee Lightweight Aggregate Company in Livingston, Alabama. The Arkalite® plant near West Memphis, AR was purchased in 2005, making Big River Industries the nation's largest producer of expanded clay lightweight aggregate. Today, Big River's annual production capacity exceeds 2.5 million cubic yards.
Big River lightweight aggregates are used in a variety of concrete products, including concrete masonry units and structural lightweight concrete for buildings and highway bridge decks. Other uses include precast/prestressed concrete, skid resistant asphalt paving, geotechnical fill and specialty products such as adhered manufactured stone masonry veneers. Compared to ordinary aggregates, lightweight aggregates increase the fire resistance and insulating capabilities of concrete products, improve their strength to weight ratio, enhance durability, and improve seismic and fatigue resistance, all while increasing cost efficiency. Big River lightweight aggregates improve the skid resistance of asphalt pavements, and reduce vertical and lateral loads when used for geotechnical fill.
In addition to lightweight aggregates, Big River markets Class C Fly Ash, a by-product of western coal combustion. Fly Ash can be used as a partial replacement for cement in concrete products. It is also useful for solidifying liquid waste in landfills, and for soil stabilization.
Big River Industries, Inc., an Oldcastle company, has been a part of Oldcastle Architectural since 1987.
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