is one of northern California’s leading producers and suppliers of high quality aggregate rock products and asphaltic paving materials.
With its headquarters in Napa, Syar serves the construction industry from strategically located facilities in Solano, Napa, Sonoma, Yolo, and Contra Costa counties. Today, Syar operates nine asphalt paving material plants, four recycling facilities, and ten ready mix concrete batch plants.
Syar’s plants are among the most technologically advanced in the industry and can ship more than 40,000 tons of building materials each day to customers throughout northern California. In addition to producing aggregates from its quarries and sand and gravel operations, Syar is advancing the recycling of concrete and asphalt products to conserve basic resources. Managed by dedicated professionals, Syar plants provide hundreds of good paying union jobs with a total annual payroll of several million dollars.
Complementing the aggregate and asphaltic paving materials supplied by Syar Industries, Inc., Syar Concrete LLC supplies high-quality ready-mix concrete to the Northern California market from its ready-mix concrete plants in the counties of Solano, Yolo, Sacramento, El Dorado, Placer, and Yuba. After a 10 year hiatus, Syar re-entered the ready-mix concrete business in Solano and Yolo counties in August, 2007. With the overwhelmingly positive response from our customers, Syar Concrete expanded into Sacramento, Eldorado and Placer counties in September, 2009 and into Yuba County in May 2010. With the most modern concrete mixer truck fleet in the business, state-of-the art GPS-based central dispatching, and cutting edge computerized plant controllers, and dedicated crews, Syar concrete looks forward to providing our customers with timely, reliable delivery of high-quality concrete products.
With over 11,000 acres of property, “care for the land” is not just a slogan but a company commitment. Careful stewardship of Syar’s aggregate production facilities includes the reclamation of previously disturbed areas into new uses, such as grazing land and wildlife habitat. Surrounding some of its aggregate production facilities, Syar owns thousands of acres of agricultural land, including about 2,400 acres of grazing land, 1,000 acres of row crops and 400 acres of Sonoma County vineyards.
Over seventy years of achievement began in 1938 when C.M. “Tony” Syar started his construction business in Vallejo, California with his new contractor’s license and a 1932 International dump truck. Always looking to the future and working to provide the best for his customers, in the early 1940’s Tony began supplying ready-mix concrete to the construction industry with plants in Vallejo and Fairfield in Solano County. These plants provided high-quality building materials for Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Travis Air Force Base and other critical military needs during the war years.
In the early 1950’s Syar added a major sand and gravel operation and ready-mix plant in Madison, Yolo County, which provided much of the building material for Monticello Dam and Interstate Highway 80 and served a new construction industry market. During the next two decades, Syar continued to add aggregate production facilities, including the Lake Herman Quarry near Vallejo, to serve its growing base of satisfied customers.
Also during this time, Tony turned his hand towards developing his own projects. The Leisure Town retirement and golf community in Vacaville was planned and developed by Syar in the early 1960’s and is now home to over 2,500 active adults. The adjoining Green Tree Golf Club is a public 27-hole course and driving range owned and operated by the company, and is still Solano County’s best golfing value.
Syar’s largest commitment to growth came in March 1986, when the company acquired the assets and property of Basalt Rock Company, a division of Dillingham Heavy Construction, Inc. With the addition of the Napa quarry and barge loading facility and a major sand and gravel operation in Healdsburg, Syar’s service area expanded overnight to Napa and Sonoma counties. This acquisition doubled the size of the company and established it as one of the largest rock producers in Northern California.
Syar Industries strives to remain a leader in the industry and to contribute to the communities it serves. Syar’s ownership and management embrace the following goals while pursuing the growth and profitability of the company:
- Syar provides high quality rock products to customers at competitive prices.
- Syar works to expand its services and products through acquisition and development of strategically located aggregate resources and aggregate product production facilities.
- Syar enhances its network of advanced production facilities through targeted investments in new plants, mobile equipment, and information technology.
- Syar creates high quality, good paying jobs for the communities where Syar is located and supports local economic development.
- Syar protects and preserves the land and environment by leading the industry in reclamation and flood control.
- Syar strives to minimize the impact of its operations and benefit surrounding communities by the economic development of buffer zone lands.
- Syar maintains efficient and safe operation of production facilities.
- Syar provides economic opportunity, personal growth, and job satisfaction for its employees.
