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Manley
Bros. operates from its one location in Troy Grove, Illinois. We
have mined the St. Peter Sandstone, an ancient deposit of highly pure
rounded grain sandstone, since the late 1950's.
We
dry and process sand on two eight-hour shifts, Monday to Friday,
throughout the year loading trucks and railcars. The company
employs twenty five people, including administration and sales.
Some of our employees have been with the company 30+ years, so as you
can see we are quite small but have an enormous amount of experience in
processing and shipping sand. |
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During
1998 we were certified by
Lloyd's Register Quality
Assurance as having a Quality Management System that meets the standards of ISO 9002. Additionally, NSF has
certified us to their standard #61 drinking water program, and we
regularly score 100% ratings on many of our customer supplier audits.
We
ship in excess of 400,000 tons/year with much of this material going to the
foundry industry as core and molding sand. We also ship melting
sand to the glass container industry, in addition to specialty sands for
the construction market, used in stucco's, plaster, polymer concrete
sand blends, and many other diverse applications.
Apart
from our people who are our strongest asset, our processing plant gives
us the ability to blend nine fractions of sand produced by the
fractionators back into the many standard and non-standard grades we
offer. Our mining, stockpiling, and processing produce a tightly
controlled feed to the blend belt, allowing our standard specs to be
some of the tightest in the industry, and giving our customers a consistent
quality product and peace of mind.
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