At Silvi Materials, we believe that everyone should have access to the best. That’s why we source the highest-quality materials from around the world in order to help companies, contractors, and homeowners bring their construction dreams to fruition. We are the premier building material suppliers in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, as well as the greater East Coast. We provide ready-mix concrete, cement, stone, slag, and rock salt from over 23 locations. Thanks to our wide-scale operations, resources, products, and equipment, we can support a wide range of needs and requirements with limited use of third-party partnerships.
Since its inception in 1947, Silvi has been a family-owned business that has grown and expanded with each new generation of Silvi leadership. Larry Sr. launched the concrete business while still working as a butcher in his family’s general store by day. In the 70s, his sons John and Larry Jr. joined the company after earning their degrees from Syracuse University. Today, Larry III has joined the Silvi Materials brand to work alongside his father and uncle to continue pushing the business towards excellence.
After returning home from serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II, Laurence Silvi, eventually known as Larry Sr., is working as a butcher at his family’s general store in Tullytown, PA. When a customer couldn’t pay off his debt, he gifts the family with a cement block plant. Larry Sr. is placed in charge of this new endeavor, and he starts “making block” at night after his shift at the general store ends. Thus, The Silvi Group is born.
Larry Sr. moves into a farmhouse in Morrisville, PA, with his new bride and rents the upstairs apartment to a purchasing agent from William J. Levitt & Sons. The same year, William J. Levitt starts building a 16,000-home project to be called Levittown, PA.
Larry Sr. starts a sand-washing operation on his farmland to supply the Levittown project.
Larry Sr. expands the business to include ready-mix concrete to supply the last 40 homes in Levittown, PA. The Silvi Group buys two 6-yard “pony motor” mixer trucks to officially start their concrete business.
Levitt awards contract to Silvi to be the sole supplier for a 16,000-home project in Willingboro NJ, and a 5,000-home project in Matawan, NJ.
The Silvi Group purchases property for a sand and concrete plant in Franklinville, NJ, and opens Silvi Concrete of Englishtown in Millstone, NJ.
Larry Sr.’s sons John L. Silvi and Laurence J. Silvi, II both graduate from Syracuse University and join their father at the company.
Silvi Concrete moves its original concrete plant from Larry Sr.’s backyard to its current headquarters at 355 Newbold Rd. in Fairless Hills, PA.
The Silvi Group adds plants in Trenton and Cranbury, NJ, a 220-acre sand-mining operation in Monroe Township, NJ, and a 68-acre property on the Delaware River that becomes the first steel silo to create a cement import terminal in Bristol, PA. During this time, Silvi imports its first bulk cement ship from Greece.
Sahara Sand buys 204 acres of property in Franklin Township, Gloucester County, NJ, and opens a greenfield sand and gravel plant. Silvi Concrete buys its first front-discharge concrete trucks and changes the delivery standard in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
The Silvi Group celebrates 50 years of business as they continue to grow and expand operations across the PA-NJ region. It is during this time that Silvi imports its first bulk cement shipload from Siam Cement in Thailand, becoming the first company to import cement from Asia to the East Coast of the U.S., setting a record for the longest commercial bulk shipment of cement into the U.S.
The Silvi Group purchases a concrete plant in Oxford, PA, from Bowman Concrete, as well as purchasing 300 acres in New Hanover Township, PA, for a new rock quarry, thus establishing a stone-mining division for the company.
Riverside Construction Materials buys a state-of-the-art Van Aalst pneumatic cement unloader from the Netherlands for the unloading of cement ships.
Silvi Concrete buys concrete assets from Independence Concrete Company and opens a new greenfield concrete plant in Downingtown, PA.
Silvi buys a 1,400-acre rock quarry from 3M Corp. in Belle Mead, NJ.
Silvi Concrete buys American Concrete Plant, South Plainfield, NJ.
Silvi Concrete completes a 7,200-yard continuous pour, the largest in company history, using 106 trucks in 12 hours.
Silvi Concrete buys 3 concrete plants and 1 block plant from Phillips Concrete in Northern New Jersey. Silvi Concrete then purchases the first 30 CNG 12-liter front-discharge concrete trucks in the world from McNeilus Corp.
Silvi buys 3 plants from R.E. Pierson in New Jersey, located in Logan, Mt. Holly, and Berlin.
In July, Riverside Construction Materials completes construction and filling of the new 65,000 metric ton dome in Bristol, PA. Phase 1 of the new dome is completed in November 2015. The facility consists of (2) 65,000-metric-ton domes and (1) 35,000-metric-ton dome.
Silvi Concrete performs a record 5,868-yard concrete pour in Philadelphia for The W Hotel, which remains the largest concrete mat foundation in Philadelphia history. The mat foundation utilizes 25.2 million lbs. of concrete delivered in 28 hours, requiring 136 trucks from 4 central-mix concrete plants.
The Silvi Group acquires a rock salt operation that supplies bulk rock salt and calcium chloride used for deicing.
The Silvi Group builds a 20,000-square-foot state-of-the-art headquarters.
The Silvi Group supplies 185,000 tons of sand and stone to Walsh Construction for an on-site concrete plant for concrete runway #3 at JFK Airport. The material is delivered using 170 dump trucks per night during a three-and-a-half month period.
The Silvi Group purchases Ricci Bros Sand Co. located in Port Norris, NJ, in December 2019. The mining operation, which started in 1947, consists of 660 acres of a high-purity sand and stone and is capable of shipping aggregate by water.
Silvi opens new central-mix concrete plant in Linden, NJ.
Silvi opens new central ready-mix plant in Philadelphia. The new plant expands Silvi’s market into Center City and will be the closest ready-mix plant to Center City of any other concrete plants.
The Silvi Group Companies acquires 572 permitted mining acres located in Commercial and Downe Townships in New Jersey, adjacent to Sahara Sand’s existing 788-acre sand and gravel deposit, which was acquired in December 2019. This brings Silvi’s total reserves in Cumberland County in excess of 40 million tons over 1,360 acres.
The Silvi Group decides that it’s time for a rebrand and changes their business to Silvi Materials, complete with a new logo and website.
Silvi buys 6 plants from L&L Concrete headquartered in Southampton , NJ with other NJ locations in Woodbury, Kingston, Clayton, Cinnaminson, and Voorhees.
