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About Us
Beaver Valley Slag mines approximately
800,000 tons a year of air-cooled blast furnace and steel slag products, and
have been operating at their present site since 1996. They offer a wide
assortment of PennDOT certified aggregate products that have been
successfully used in a host of construction and manufacturing applications.
With a continual focus on product development and process improvement, it is
no wonder why Beaver Valley Slag’s products seem to be appearing
everywhere. From the runways of the Pittsburgh Airport, or as an integral
raw material in Portland cement and concrete manufacturing, or even in
residential driveways, pipe culverts, and basements . . . our products are
chosen because they perform and they last!
But how did all this slag get here?
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For almost 90 years the
huge J&L Steel plant in Aliquippa, PA poured its slag ladles onto the
lands along the Ohio River that today are Beaver Valley Slag’s
reserves. This is now the largest slag reserve east of the
Mississippi River, with an estimated 100 million tons. Beaver
Valley Slag has been mining this reserve since 1996 and providing
customers the consistently high quality products that they have come
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present-day operation can easily be seen from Route 51, between Monaca
and Aliquippa, where a wide assortment of large off-road vehicles,
crushers, screeners, and conveyors safely recycle this one time waste
material into a superior aggregate product. By closely monitoring
product quality, and assuring that it conforms to all relevant PennDOT specifications, we consistently demonstrate the high
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This modern and efficient operation also converts once unusable
industrial slag dumps into prime industrial properties. The
community not only benefits from the business that the slag
operation generates, but also from the economic development
initiatives that spring up from the now available prime land.
The neighboring US Gypsum plant and Beaver County Jail both
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Our dedicated and professional staff is ready to serve you to
meet your aggregate needs. We employ approximately 30 people
from the local community who have both an intrinsic working
knowledge and attitudes fixed on providing meaningful and
friendly service. We want to demonstrate this to you with your
next slag or aggregate application.
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WHAT IS SLAG?
A.S.T.M. (the American Society for the
Testing of Materials) defines blast furnace slag as “the non-metallic
product, consisting of essentially of silicates and alumino-silicates of lime
and other bases, which is developed in a molten condition simultaneously
with iron in a blast furnace”.
In other words, iron and steel makers
produce slag by using limestone to purify their iron-based products. After
the molten slag is separated from the iron or steel, it cools and hardens
with its own unique set of properties. Because of the high temperatures of
a blast furnace, approximately 2700 degrees F, the impurities have been
chemically bound. What results is an extremely hard and resilient rock. In
addition, because gases escape from the slag as it cools, it has a porous
(or vesicular) structure that makes it lighter in weight, yet extremely
strong and durable. A further benefit is that the carbon dioxide was driven
out of the rock when it was calcined in the furnace, which is a strategic
benefit to cement manufacturers.
Beaver Valley Slag sells both
blast furnace
slag products as well as
steel slag products, which were produced in a
basic oxygen furnace (BOF). The steel slags are formed at lower
temperatures, and are darker in color because of their higher iron
concentration. Steel slags have more limited applications, however they
perform exceptionally well in surface applications, such as exposed
construction access roads.
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MISSION
STATEMENT
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Provide our
customers with the highest quality slag products through a
commitment to their success.
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Provide our
employees with a safe and secure work environment and equip them
with the tools to enable them to reach objectives.
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Grow our
business through marketing, research, and technical advances, while
recycling and using existing resources.
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Support the
local community by promoting local business, and reclaiming and
promoting valuable land for local development projects.
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