New season hours are confirmed for our quarries. In New Jersey new season hours will commence on Monday April, 8. In NY new season hours will commence on Monday April 15. UPDATED WED APRIL 23, 2013.

New Jersey

Mt Hope Quarry- Will move to a 24 hour operation in Mt Hope starting Monday morning at 5am and closing at noon on Saturday.

Oxford Quarry- Will now operate 6am – 3pm Monday – Friday

Riverdale Quarry- Will now operate 6am – 3pm Monday – Friday

Pompton Lakes Quarry- Will now operate 6am -4pm Monday – Friday (Starting April 20th we will begin Saturday hours 6am – Noon)

Kearny Recycle- Will remain 7am – 3pm Monday – Friday as well as Saturday 7am – noon.

North Bergen Recycle- Will remain open 7am – 3pm Monday – Friday.

New York

Clinton Point - Mon - Fri 6am to 4pm, Sat 6am to 2pm

Haverstraw - Mon to Fri 5am to 3.30pm, Sat closed

Tomkins Cove - closed for the season

West Nyack Quarry - Mon to Fri 5am to 3.30pm, Sat 6am to 2pm

Goshen - Mon to Fri 6am to 3.30pm, Sat closed

Port Washington - Mon to Fri 7am to 3.30pm, Sat closed

Flushing - Mon to Fri 6.30am to 2.30pm, Sat closed

Port Jefferson - Mon to Fri 7am to 3.3pm, Sat closed

Bronx - Mon to Fri 6.30am to 5pm, Sat tbd

As always hours are subject to change depending upon weather and customer demand.

Any changes or updates will be posted here as soon as they occur.

On Saturday April 6, a group of Tilcon employees and their families got together at our Tomkins Cove facility to clean up the dock area. The dock, adjacent to the Hudson River, is used to load stone onto barges bound for the New York metro area. Trash can be washed shore and accumulate at the dock and help was needed to clean up the area.

Tilcon employees who took part include Sharon Zagar, Eric Kechejian and daughter Isabella, Adriane Casterella and son Anthony Jr, John Cooney and daughter Sara, George and Mary Lindbloom, Bill Poole, Niall O'Gara and son Eoin, Jason Hope and daughter Nathalie, Steve Brooks, Anne O'Malley, John Van Zetta, Telena Hudson and Tom Hurley. 

The team collected over 20 cubic yards of garbage and can be very proud of their efforts. They left the dock in great shape. Thanks to everyone who took part in the clean up.

Tilcon's Annual Earth Day Event 2013 celebrated the meaning of Earth Day this year, specifically how it relates to the Native American Culture in New Jersey. Many of the animals and birds that were symbols of courage, honor and freedom in the American Indian culture are amongst some of the wildlife that live right here in New Jersey.

A team of Tilcon volunteers visited second and third graders at the CA Dwyer Elementary school in Wharton, NJ on April 23 for a special Earth Day "Pow Wow". The children were given handmade headdresses that Tilcon volunteers had made ahead and delivered to the school for them to wear and decorate in their classrooms before the event. As part of the arts and crafts portion they decorated their own Indian necklaces to compliment the headdresses.  Each of the necklaces had a different Indian animal symbol.

There was also a slide show presented by Maritsa Barosi, Tilcon NJ Safety Training Coordinator, which explained the many different animal symbolisms and their meaning and beliefs in the Indian culture. The children had been studying Indian Culture in their classrooms so they were very excited to learn all about the animals and what they symbolized.

Gary Lawton, Tilcon NJ Environmental Coordinator, presented a slide show of some of the many animals that live in Morris County and all over the state of New Jersey. He also made coloring books of different raptors for the children to draw and take home with them.

Tenafly Nature Center brought in a Snow Owl and Red Tail Hawk for a special live demonstration and passed around some unique artifacts and explained some of their sounds and behavior. 

For the finale, the children and volunteers all joined together to perform a real Indian rain dance.  Ironically, when all the volunteers were done cleaning up after the event and everyone was leaving to go to their cars it actually started raining!

DATE: May 9, 2013

CONTACT: Karen Edgar, Public Relations Manager, kedgar@tilconny.com, (973) 659-3632

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Tilcon opens state-of-the-art asphalt plant at Mt Hope Quarry

Wharton, NJ - Tilcon New York Inc has opened a state-of-the-art asphalt plant, which is capable of producing 600 tons per hour and storing 2,700 tons of material in nine 300 ton hot storage silos, at its Mount Hope Quarry, Wharton, NJ.  The energy-efficient Gencor Drum plant, is one of the largest asphalt plants in the state.

The new plant is situated close to the entrance to the facility and the scale house, providing customers with convenient, safe and easy access and exit and a fast turnaround.

Another convenience is that customers do not have to get out of their vehicles. The plant features separate COD and Call-in-Order Intercom Systems. COD customers speak their orders via intercom and send their payments via an air tube, similar to drive-through banking.

The plant has several environmental, quality control and safety advantages:

Environmental – the plant's Gencor Ultraplant TM technology is the most fuel efficient and environmentally clean design in the hot-mix industry.  The Gencor Ultraplant TM is the only hot mix plant with a positive volatile capture and recovery system that totally eliminates blue smoke and asphalt odors from the process and feeds them to the combustion process as fuel.  The drum and all piping are insulated and hot oil silos are thermostatically-controlled, making the plant energy-efficient.Quality Control – the state-of-the-art quality control lab has five dedicated staff members who are state-certified.  There are Lab Stations for the Department of Transportation and other state agencies in view of the plant, with a sampling platform at the truck exit.Safety  – the plant does not require customers to exit their vehicles at any point while loading, and the control room is in full view of the silos, automatic ticketing and payment systems. Customers can communicate with the control room via intercom.

Technical Facts: * 600 ton per hour insulated "ultra drum," which is warm mix and RAP compatible, * 120,000 CFM bag house with 400 HP variable frequency drives, * 10 — 10 feet  x 16 feet cold feed bins, 100 tons each, * 3 — 10 feet  x 15 feet RAP bins, * 4 — 35,000 gallon vertical asphalt tanks, * 1,000 gallon calibration tank, * Automatic sampling station for Quality Control, * 2,000 gallon anti-strip tank and automated metering pump, * 2,000,000 BTU hot oil heaters, * 9 — 300 ton hot storage silos, 2,700 tons of storage.

Tilcon New York Inc produces construction materials and provides road construction services in New York and New Jersey.We operate quarries, asphalt plants and material recycling facilities and offer heavy highway construction and paving. Our quality materials are transported throughout our region by truck, barge and rail.We have worked on some of the most iconic and prestigious projects in our region. Our stone can be found in the Freedom Tower in Lower Manhattan, beneath New York City streets in the Second Ave Subway and on Governors Island. We have paved at Newark Liberty International Airport, Teterboro Airport and the Lincoln Tunnel.

Tilcon is part of the Oldcastle Materials Group, which is the leading vertically integrated supplier of aggregates, asphalt, ready mixed concrete and paving services in the USA.

All Tilcon facilities will be closed on Monday May 27 for Memorial Day. Some facilities will be open on Saturday May 25, as follows:

New Jersey

Mt Hope Quarry will be open until 12 noon. All other quarries and plants will be closed.

One asphalt plant will be open - location to be confirmed. Customers please call NJ Order Entry for asphalt requirements for Saturday May 25 by calling 1-800-789-7625. Press 1 for Stone Orders, 2 for Asphalt Orders, 4 for Dispatch.  

New York

All facilities will be closed on Saturday May 25.

Please be aware that there will be a Tilcon New Jersey facility-wide Safety Stand Down on the morning of Tuesday May 29, 2013 from 9.00am to 9.15am.

Customers please be aware that all actitivity will cease during this 15 minute stand-down to allow employees to focus on key safety messages and reminders.

Meantime, we wish everyone a safe and happy Memorial Weekend.

Tilcon New Jersey was honored at the New Jersey Business & Industry Association's 53rd Annual New Good Neighbor Awards Luncheon on May 31, at the Pines Manor in Edison for the construction of their new state-of the-art Gencor asphalt plant at Mt. Hope Quarry.  The plant is one of the largest asphalt plants in the state.  The award salutes firms that have, in the last two years, contributed to the economic vitality of their communities by constructing new buildings or investing in noteworthy improvement projects. An independent panel of judges from a cross section of state associations and organizations judge the entries based on their economic benefits, job creation, architectural merit and community involvement.

Rockaway Township's Mayor Michael Dachisen nominated Tilcon for the award and for its commitment to being a good corporate citizen.  The facility, which is nestled in the southern most historic portion of the community, has a mining and furnace operations which dates back to the early 18th Century on site.  Another historic landmark is the Ford Faesch home, which stands at the entrance to the facility and was once owned by Mr. Faesch who was one of the first iron masters that produced ammunition for George Washington's Continental Army.  Tilcon has never lost sight of the importance of the local history of the area and is pride to have it as part of their landscape.

Tilcon has contributed to numerous community based groups, the local school system as well as county-wide non-profit organizations.  For example, The Township was in need of light towers for their athletic fields as they did not have permanent lighting on their fields and Tilcon assisted by donating light towers that allow them to illuminate the fields for games and practices during evening hours.  Donations of material and other related resources have been donated to the Catherine A. Dwyer Elementary School for their reading garden and playground as well as recently a donation of boulders for security at the school. A few years back, Tilcon also helped finance a school solar speed limit sign for the roadway in front of the school.

Over the years, a close communication has been formed with the local township fire and rescue squads and police departments by using the facility as a resource for training purposes. Tilcon is also identified in the township's Local Emergency Operations Plan as a primary contractor capable of providing materials and equipment on a moment's notice in the event of a local major disaster.  Tilcon dispatched the heavy equipment needed to clean up debris following Superstorm Sandy.

Safety is always number one priority at the site, and the new asphalt plant project included improvements to the property's roadways that facilitate the ease of traffic flow into and out of the facility for the local community, customers, visitors and employees.  The new state-of-the-art equipment that was added runs more efficiently and quietly and provides additional dust control measures improving the plants overall environment and further minimizing any intrusion to the surrounding neighbors and community. Other features include a separate COD and Call-in-Order Intercom System that allows customer to speak their orders via intercom and then sends their payments via an air tube, similar to drive-through banking without the customer even getting out of their vehicles.

The new quality control laboratory has lab stations for the Department of Transportation and other state agencies that are in full view of the plant along with a sampling platform.

Transportation design and construction firms and public agencies from across the country were recognized for "excellence in community relations and public education" during the American Road & Transportation Builders Association Transportation Development Foundation (ARTBA-TDF) 2013 PRIDE Awards dinner program, held June 3 in the Nation's Capital during the association's Federal Issues Program.

Established in 1999, the PRIDE Awards honor outstanding programs that enhance the image of the transportation design and construction industry. An independent panel of public relations professionals and journalists reviewed nominations and selected the winners in these categories:

The Community Relations Awards honor programs which demonstrate positive involvement with the community in which a public agency, firm or association is located. The Public-Media Relations/Education awards recognize activities that educate the public and opinion leaders about the significant contributions the industry makes to the economy and/or quality of life.

Tilcon's Community Involvement Program received an Honorable Mention in the Community Relations category.

Click on the to view ARTBA's video about the award program and the winning entries. http://youtu.be/f5E5O1P90zY

Tilcon New Jersey is currently managing a major highway construction project on I-287 in Morris County, New Jersey. This federally-funded, $27 million project was commissioned by the New Jersey Department of Transportation.

It consists of milling and resurfacing a 6.8 mile stretch of I-287 from below Route 124 in Morris County to Route I-80 in Parsippany, Troy Hills. The project also includes the repair of eight bridges and one complete superstructure replacement.

The work, which began in summer 2012, will be completed by the end of 2014. It involves placing over 130,000 tons of hot mix asphalt as well as subcontracted work as follows – bridges (Joseph M Sanzari Inc), guide rail (J. Fletcher Creamer & Son), milling (Intercounty Paving Associates, LLC), markings (Statewide Striping Corp.), electrical work (Pantaleo Electric), concrete barrier (MV Contracting Inc.) and landscaping (Applied Landscape).  

The majority of the work, with the exception of the bridge work, is scheduled to take place at night to minimize traffic disruption.

Please note that all Tilcon facilities - offices, quarries, plants and terminals will be closed on Thursday, July 4 for the holiday. All facilities will be operating as usual on Friday July 5.

Please note that in New York, Clinton Point Quarry will not be open this Saturday, July 6.

In New Jersey Mt Hope Quarry and Kearny will be open as usual on Saturday July 6. Other NJ facilities will be closed. Please check back here as updates will be posted to this page if the situation changes, based on demand.

We would like to wish all our customers, suppliers, local communities and partners a very Happy Fourth of July!

The National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA) presented Tilcon with two awards at the associations Midyear Meeting in Boston, July 15-17.  We won for our Community Involvement Program and our corporate website www.tilconny.com.

The Community Involvement award is given to asphalt companies that serve their communities through outstanding programs and projects. Our programs include our open house events, earth day celebrations, school and scout tours, Habitat for Humanity projects, Community Clean-up projects and fundraisers for Interfaith Food Pantry, March of Dimes, American Heart Association and American Cancer Society.

Tilcon's corporate website was a finalist for the Outstanding Website Award, which recognizes company websites that promote the asphalt industry. Tilcon's website, originally launched in 2006, was completely redesigned and refreshed last year. The new-look site was launched in September 2012. It is primarily a customer resource, providing practical information that customer's access on a day-to-day basis, along with details of company products, locations, community relations activity, careers information and contact details. The site also features a news section providing frequent updates about company activities and a home page slideshow highlighting high profile projects in which Tilcon is involved. The site links to Tilcon's social media pages on Twitter and Facebook. The website was designed by Northern Pride Design working with Marketing Consultant Ailsa Ferguson.

Tilcon hosted two Boy Scout tours over the summer.  The tours were held at West Nyack Quarry on June 7 and Pompton Lakes Quarry on July 19. The scout troops needed to meet the necessary criteria to earn their geology badges by learning about the earth and its many layers and the different types of minerals and how they are formed.

The scouts from Garnerville, NY and Montville, NJ each saw presentations given by Tilcon staff on the geology and history of the quarries and the different types of aggregate that are produced at each facility.  They discussed the importance of our industry and how crushed stone is essential in building homes, schools, hospitals, roads and erosion control projects. They also learned that Tilcon meets all requirements of state and federal environmental regulatory agencies and that environmental stewardship is an essential part of being a good corporate citizen in the communities in which we work and live.

A bus transported the scouts and family members on a tour of the quarries.  They learned how the stone is blasted and then broken up into large pieces and transported by huge haul trucks to a primary crusher. There, large rocks are fed into the top and then made into smaller/finer pieces of rocks in various different sizes.  They were told that sometimes the rocks may be fed into smaller crushers to be further broken down.

Our guides spoke to the scouts about how the crushed stone is usually transported to our customers by independently owned and operated trucks, but some quarries, such as our NY ones,  may transport by barge or rail, along the Hudson River to our customers.

The final stage of the quarry tour was a question and answer period and many of the scouts and their families asked numerous questions. They were all given goody bags and educational materials to take home and share with their families and friends.

The tours were a huge success. Many thanks go to:

West Nyack

John Rufer; Plant Manager; Kyle Shuman, Pit Foreman; Jeremy Vandermark, Production Foreman; Susan Kopek, Office Manager.

Pompton Lakes

Brad Carroll, General Manager, Aggregates, NJ; Grant Shields, Assistant Plant Manager; Stephanie Dennis, Office Manager; Maritsa Barosi, NJ Safety Training Coordinator.

The shoreline in New York's historic Queensbridge Park in Long Island City, Queens has been fenced off to the public for the last several years due to erosion and damage to the seawall, rendering it dangerous to visitors. Long-awaited repairs began in May this year which will bring the water-front back to life, rebuilding the seawall, replacing ugly chain-link fencing with benches and plantings and allowing visitors to stop, picnic and play beside the water.

The project, funded by New York City council, Mayor Bloomberg's office and the MTA, includes reconstruction of the seawall using rip-rap revetment. Rip-rap will be used to protect the shoreline by absorbing and deflecting waves and lessening the effects of erosion. It began in May 2013 and is expected to be completed by summer 2014. The project will also create a 6-foot wide promenade with benches and planting and a small wharf.

Working for contractor Phoenix Marine, Tilcon is barging stone for the project from Clinton Point Quarry directly to the job site. 5000 tons of 4's and 5's, a smaller sized Rip Rap and 5,500 tons of heavy stone fill will be used to construct the seawall.

The historic park is named for the adjacent Queensboro Bridge, completed in 1908, a major factor in the development of the Borough of Queens, as its opening created a direct link into Manhattan. The park itself opened in 1939 and features ball fields, basketball and volleyball courts, childrens playground and picnic areas.  Soon it can add a newly-renovated waterfront to its list of attractions.

Tilcon New York was honored, April 21, 2013 at the 41st Annual Grand Reception hosted by Dominican College of Rockland County at the event space Three Sixty in Lower Manhattan, New York.

Dominican College, a private university founded by Dominican nuns, honors an individual or organization which has made an outstanding contribution to the local community. This year Tilcon New York was honored for Corporate Leadership and recognized for outstanding leadership in the business community and philanthropic community efforts.  Tilcon New York has been a supporter of the College for several decades and has an impressive record of giving back to the local Rockland County community through support of local schools, Scout troops, local charities and environmental groups, providing support for military families and by hosting educational events such as open houses and school tours.

The Reception is the College's main fundraising event of the year, attended by hundreds of supporters. On Tilcon's part, over 200 employees, customers and suppliers attended raising a total of $138,000, the third highest amount raised by a single organization in the event's history.

The slide show accompanying this article show Tilcon New York employees and customers, Dominican College staff and students enjoying the reception.

All Tilcon New York concrete customers are invited to join us on October 9, 2013 at Clemente Latham Concrete, 18 Argenio Drive, New Windsor, NY 12553 between 11am and 2pm to learn from industry experts abut the use of C-33 sand produced from manufactured fine sand aggregate and how to benefit your mix quality and bottom line.  

The program will include demonstrations of several mixtures containing fine manufactured aggregate, followed by lunch. Guest speakers from BASF, Bowser-Morner Laboratories and Preferred Materials.

RSVP to Adriane Casterella by October 1, 2013 845-480-3106 or acasterella@tilconny.com.

All Tilcon facilities will be closed on Monday September 2, 2013 for the Labor Day holiday.

Saturday August 31, 2013

New Jersey

Pompton Lakes Asphalt will be open 7am to 12 noon. If you require later opening please call 973-616-5040.

Pompton Lakes Quarry will be open 7am to 12 noon.

Mount Hope Quarry will be open until 12 noon.

Kearny Recycle will be open 7am to 12 noon.

New York

West Nyack Quarry will be open 6am to 2pm.

Haverstraw Quarry will be open 5am to 2pm.

All other facilities will be closed.

Wishing everyone a safe and happy Labor Day Weekend.

Tilcon New York recently donated stone and screenings to Cropsey Community Farm in New City, NY. The stone will be used for various drainage projects at the farm, including being used in the new 'hoop house' currently under construction. The 'hoop house' will protect the fall and winter vegetables grown on the farm.

Cropsey Community Farm is a local community farm which operates as a CSA – Community Supported Agriculture, offering local residents the opportunity to purchase a share in its fresh, locally grown produce in return for a fee and a number of hours worked on the farm each year.  The concept creates a direct link for local residents between the food they eat and their local farmer.

The farm also serves as an educational resource hosting programs and workshops for all ages to educate and encourage people to learn more about how their food is grown and get more out of their own backyard gardening.

The screenings, very small sized stone particles, will be mixed with compost and spread onto fields to provide nutrients to the soil. Many people within the farming community are turning to fine stone particles as an alternative to traditional fertilizer, to enhance soils. It is believed that the minerals in the stone can be released into the soil and used to provide plant nutrients.

To learn more about Cropsey Community Farm please visit http://rocklandfarm.org.

Governors Island is a 172 acre island in the heart of New York Harbor, only 800 yards from Lower Manhattan and closer to Brooklyn. For almost 200 years Governors Island was a military base, home to the US Army and later the Coast Guard and was not open to the public. In 2003, the island transferred into public ownership and 150 acres of the island is now managed by the Trust for Governors Island. It is accessible only by ferry from either Battery Park in Lower Manhattan or Brooklyn.

Governors Island attracts summer visitors who come to relax, bike, attend concerts, visit the historic homes and enjoy unique views of the Statue of Liberty, Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn.

A recently announced Park and Public Space Master Plan will completely transform Governors Island by redeveloping 87 acres of open spaces. Dutch architect Adriaan Geuze and his firm West 8, who won the contract, have spent several years observing the habits of summertime visitors. Their design changes the topography of the southern end of the island, replacing much of the flat landscape with a hilly one that compliments the skyscrapers of Manhattan. The first phase of park construction, which creates a new 30 acre park, including lively plazas, a Hammock Grove, play areas and ball fields cost $70 million. The observations made by the architects will lead to features such as a Hammock Grove full of hammocks, recliners, picnic tables and Adirondack chairs. There will be curved bike paths, designed to prevent bikers from riding too quickly, Frisbee areas and a gathering of food trucks and stands instead of a permanent cafeteria.  

Phase I of this project began in March 2012 and is due to be complete in October 2013. Tilcon will be supplying significant amounts of material for the redesign including 250,000 tons of a blend of sand and ¾ inch stone from Clinton Point which will be transported by barge to the island over the course of the year. The general contractor for the project is Turner Construction and the earthwork sub-contractor is D'Onofrio Contracting. Mike DiRenzo, NY Sales, spent over a year working with both contractors to get Tilcon material approved for this project and to secure the order.

In addition, we will be transporting 70,000 tons of engineered topsoil, also required for the earthworks, from our Port Washington terminal to the island. This material is produced by another supplier who is unable to transport it. Mike has worked with the supplier and D'Onofrio to ensure that the material is delivered to Port Washington for us to handle the barge transportation to the island.

In the future, additional phases of the project will be announced and bid. Future phases include a new 2.2 mile Great Promenade along the waterfront and other new areas. We are hopeful that our work to date and during 2012/13 will put us in a strong position to supply additional materials in the future.

Congratulations to Mike for his hard work and success on this project.

For more information on Governors Island please visit the park website at www.govisland.com and to see architectural drawings of how the island will look after the redevelopment, visit www.govislandpark.com.

The National Weather Service has issued a tornado watch for today, Monday October 7, for the following counties, effective through 5pm this evening.

New Jersey

Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Hunterdon, Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris, Ocean, Passaic, Somerset, Sussex, Union and Warren.

New York

Bronx, Dutchess, Kings, New York, Orange, Putnam, Queens, Richmond, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster, Westchester.

Be ready to seek shelter should the storm intensify. Secure outdoor furniture and items. Stay tuned to local weather information.