There have been some big changes at Silvi Materials of Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania, since Construction in Focus profiled the family-run building materials supplier in October 2023.
Over the past two years, the company has drastically expanded its distribution network and workforce and formed a high-profile partnership with the Philadelphia Eagles. In an example of fortuitous timing, the Eagles won the 2025 Super Bowl a few months after the partnership was announced.
“We got a Super Bowl win in the first year of the partnership. We couldn’t have gone any better as far as aligning with a winning team,” jokes Chief Sales and Marketing Officer Larry Silvi III, grandson of the company founder. Larry, his father Larry Silvi II, and his uncle John Silvi, are the sole owners of the company.
Established in 1947 by Laurence Silvi Senior, Silvi Materials sells high-quality cement, sand, stone, concrete, slag, and rock salt to concrete manufacturers, landscapers, construction firms, contractors, and government agencies. Its cement has Department of Transportation (DOT) approval for use in New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, and can be delivered around-the-clock, 365 days a year.
The company operates concrete plants, mining operations, sand and gravel reserves, rock quarries, and a barge terminal dubbed ‘Port Silvi,’ which facilities are based in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. In addition to raw materials, the company offers stevedoring and transloading services—including bulk material loading, unloading, and transporting—and engages in commercial real estate, warehouse storage, and snowplowing.
Since 2023, the company has begun moving cement and slag into the Midwest and Southeast via train, and in 2024, it also transported roughly 60,000 tons of sand into New York via barge.
“With the assets that we have and the way we have strategically placed these assets, we are able to do projects that others simply don’t have the capacity, firepower, and logistics network to do. We can put [building materials] on a truck, barge, or rail,” says Larry.
The company has provided construction materials for work at JFK Airport, the Garden State Parkway, and the New Jersey Turnpike. More recently, its materials have been used to build high-rise apartments in Jersey City, New Jersey; a fifteen million-square-foot industrial park in Fairless Hills; and a ten million-square-foot project in Philadelphia’s Bellwether District, which is a neighborhood earmarked for logistics, e-commerce, and life sciences firms.
The Eagles partnership emerged after Larry was contacted by an old friend who works in sports marketing, who asked if he had ever considered a sports partnership. “I said ‘No, I don’t have that kind of money to spend on a sponsorship deal.’ He said, ‘You would be surprised. It’s relatively affordable since there are not many people in your industry doing it. If you were a beer company, it would be much more expensive,’” he recalls.
After conducting some preliminary research and number crunching, the company decided to forge a partnership with the Eagles in mid-2024. The relationship has boosted the firm’s profile and bottom line as the stadium used by the Eagles requires concrete, sand for its field, and salt for its parking lots in winter, all of which Silvi can provide.
The partnership also entails a variety of client experience and entertainment elements, Larry tells us. “We get to host corporate events at their facilities and utilize some of their assets to enhance those events… I think it definitely has elevated our brand recognition,” he says.
Silvi Materials has used the partnership to enhance its charitable endeavors as well. On November 19, 2024, the company teamed up with Eagles officials to host a Thanksgiving food drive at its ready-mix concrete facility in West Philadelphia. More than 100 families in need received holiday turkeys, canned goods, and gift cards, in an event that featured Eagles players, cheerleaders, and even the team mascot Swoop, a giant bald eagle.
The company signed a partnership deal with Eagles defensive back Cooper DeJean, who attended the Thanksgiving food drive and will be appearing at future Silvi corporate events. The company hosts a picnic each year as well as a driving competition and there is talk of having DeJean take part in both. (He might face some tough opposition at the wheel, given that a Silvi employee named Michael Welsh won the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association (NRMCA)’s 2025 Ready Mixed Concrete Delivery Professional Driver of the Year Award.)
Including DeJean at the company picnic “is just a fun way to have a Super Bowl champion at the event, create some camaraderie among our employees, and have a lot of fun for the kids,” says Larry.
Naturally, the Eagles partnership has proven to be a boon for promotional efforts as well. The company has been able to post stadium ads and ads on the Eagles’ website. Silvi has branded two of its mixers with Eagles imagery and messaging. It has released a video of a driver wearing Eagles bling—including a Super Bowl ring—entering the cab of one of the company’s branded mixers. The driver proceeds to steer the vehicle through a Philly neighborhood in an homage to movie Rocky, which was based in Philadelphia and features Sylvester Stallone jogging triumphantly through the city to a soaring orchestral score.
Another video riffs on an incident in which Eagles wide receiver A.J. Brown was caught on camera reading a book on the sidelines during a game. Silvi produced an ad in which some of its mechanics and drivers are similarly taken unaware by a camera operator as they peruse a book.
“From an engagement perspective, [the Eagles] are a really prominent, well-respected brand in this region that people have an emotional connection to, which is obviously very important when it comes to marketing. Being able to piggyback off of that with our content is a huge win for us,” says Head of Marketing Andrew Gaddess.
Not that the company needs a Super Bowl connection to succeed; asked why a contractor or construction firm should purchase materials from Silvi, Larry says, “Not all materials are the same… Ours are of the highest-grade, highest-quality material. That’s first and foremost. Because we are so focused on innovation and technology, we believe we provide a service that is better than most. Those are the two things we can sell: quality and service.”
The company opts for low-alkali cement that has been ground and blended to very specific criteria. Having its own sand plant and rock quarry also gives the company control over other outgoing products. Silvi sells sand that has been graded to certain factors such as particle size, cleanliness, and stability and supplies quality stone for wall cladding, flooring, countertops, and landscaping.
The company adheres to an eco-friendly ethos and promotes sustainability wherever it can. Silvi Materials utilizes solar power at certain mines, while some of its trucks are powered by compressed natural gas, which burns cleaner than conventional fuel. One facility uses renewable natural gas which is derived from biogas which in turn comes from organic material that is decomposing.
“We’re pushing for sustainable changes. We’re exploring some things right now that could be game changers for the industry,” Larry shares.
Silvi’s offices are paperless, and the firm pioneered an e-ticket system in which drivers eschew paper invoices for data on tablets. “Updating our IT infrastructure,” Larry says, is the company’s biggest challenge at present. The team has nearly completed a massive overhaul of its enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management software programs—initiatives it was just embarking upon when we last spoke. “We’re basically tearing out our nervous system and putting a new one in. It’s been a two-year project that we’re coming to an end on, aiming to get better data and be more efficient.”
The company also offers a leadership development program that includes a mentorship initiative and sends staff to training courses run by the NRMCA.
The team has grown from approximately 700 employees at the time of our previous profil, to “close to 800,” Larry says, and this growth in personnel has been matched by successful new ventures. The company launched a side business called Silvi Construction that puts concrete over asphalt-covered surfaces. Things are going extremely well at this division, Larry reports. “We converted 500,000 square feet of paving from asphalt to concrete in 2024, which was a major milestone for us,” he states.
Asked where he would like to see Silvi Materials in five years, he offers a level-headed forecast. “In five years, I’d like to be on a steady growth pattern—nothing too explosive where you lose control of quality and service. We want to continue to have stable growth and be even more innovative with data and AI, and hopefully working toward a zero-carbon product. I don’t know if we’ll be there in five years, but we should be on our way.”
