The Slag Cement Association (SCA) announced the addition of Silvi Materials as its newest member company. Silvi Materials is a premier building material supplier in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, the greater East Coast, and the Midwest. They provide ready-mix concrete, aggregate, cement, and slag from over 23 locations.

Silvi Materials is committed to running their operations with methods that are energy efficient, reduce their carbon footprint, and build towards a more sustainable future – including their use of supplementary cementitious materials such as ground-granulated blast-furnace slag. Silvi Materials stores their slag in a 35,000-ton dome at their import facility in Bristol, Pennsylvania.

“We are thrilled to have Silvi Materials join the Slag Cement Association,” stated Nick Brimley, Marketing Director of SCA. Kelly Ican, National Cement Sales Manager of Silvi Materials said, “Silvi’s mission is to maximize the utilization of recycled and recovered building materials, such as slag cement, aligning with SCA’s vision to lower embodied carbon in the concrete industry, we are glad to be a partner”

The Slag Cement Association is an organization of companies that produce and ship slag cement in the United States; these shipments represent more than 95% of all slag cement used in U.S. concrete.