1939

San Francisco hosted the World’s Fair to celebrate the recent completions of the Bay Bridge (1936) and the Golden Gate Bridge (1937).   The event was held on the on the newly created, man-made Treasure Island with views of both bridges.   The exhibition was to highlight new innovative products and engineering feats.

Believing that lightweight block would revolutionize the construction of office building and residential homes, the Basalt Rock Company of Napa built a residential project on site at the World’s Fair for everyone visiting to see.  They wanted the world to see their new high performance, lightweight block in action.   The concrete block product was named……. Basalite®.

1987

Pacific Coast Building Products acquired Glass Mountain Block, which included three locations in Nevada:  a three-acre office complex and contractor/retail facility in Sparks, a manufacturing plant and retail location in Carson City and 300 acre aggregate-mining operation near Dayton

1979

Pacific Coast acquired the Basalite Block name and assets that included a concrete block manufacturing plant in Napa, CA.

1987

Dixon, CA Facility Opened.  After many years of block production in Napa, the manufacturing operations were moved to Dixon, CA.  The new facility would become Basalite’s largest single site operation housing Block, Dry-Mix and Paver making operations.

Present Day

Our focus now, just as it was when we opened our doors all those years ago, is on service, quality and innovation. Those are the values that have made us the industry leader we are today and the same principles that will guide us far into the future. 

Basalite continues to expand its geographic footprint through acquisition and the construction of new facilities manufacturing concrete products, decorative rock, recycled plastic edging and many more. List of Basalite locations:

Arizona  |  Classic Stone MFG., Phoenix

California  |  Basalite® Concrete Products, Dixon, Tracy & Selma

      |  Epic Plastics®, Lodi

      |  Simons Brick, Southgate

      |  Air Vol Block, San Luis Obispo

Colorado  |  Basalite® Concrete Products, Ft. Lupton, Co. Springs & Denver

Idaho  |  Basalite® Concrete Products, Meridian

Nevada  |  Basalite® Concrete Products, Carson City & Sparks

Oregon  | Basalite® Concrete Products, Redmond

Washington/Oregon  |  Basalite® Concrete Products, Dupont

Alberta  |  Basalite® Concrete Products, Rock View County

British Columbia  |  Basalite® Concrete Products, Surrey