Big River Industries

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About Us
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 produced at the company headquarters 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 in West Memphis, AR was purchased in 2005 making Big River Industries the largest producer of clay based lightweight aggregate. Today, Big River's annual shipping capacity of lightweight aggregate exceeds 2 million cubic yards.
Big River lightweight aggregates are used in a variety of concrete masonry and ready-mix concrete products, including concrete blocks and structural concrete for buildings and highway bridge decks. Other uses include precast concrete, skid resistant asphalt, geotechnical fill and specialty products. Compared to ordinary aggregates, lightweight aggregates provide fire resistance, insulating capabilities, strength, durability, earthquake and fatigue resistance, and cost efficiency. 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, concrete products, and for soil stabilization.