Posillico Materials' commitment to our environment, product quality, safety, sustainability, and customer service has facilitated major expansions over the past decade. We now proudly operate two state-of-the-art facilities on Long Island that have become the standard of excellence in the local paving and aggregate markets. The 2017 acquisition and development of our Holtsville location has allowed us to build new relationships and better service our eastern Suffolk customers, while our Farmingdale location has upgraded and redeveloped into the largest and most advanced contaminated soil washing facility in the world. This investment has created the first ever fixed-base remediation and recycling plant for contaminated soils on Long Island, and helps to curtail the ongoing problem of illegal dumping and contamination of the Island's drinking water. Our expanded capabilities include serving a wider variety of customers the highest quality products, while minimizing landfill waste and raw material mining.
Today, PBA is Posillico Materials, with an increased focus on service to a wide variety of mixes desired by our customers. We added a 5th silo to house a greater variety of asphalt mixes back in 2012 and we recently completed construction on a state of the art rail offloading expansion to our facility that drastically improves aggregate delivery and reduces the impact of fuel, tolls, and other trucking costs. In addition, other upgrades have been made to our facilities that improve material handling methods, asphalt crushing efficiency, and power efficiency. Upgrades have also been made to reduce fuel consumption, total emissions, and aggregate waste and moisture content from our material.
Our Asphalt Plant upgraded to a state of the art Astec Double Drum Continuous Mix Plant in the early 1990's which saw our silo quantity rise to 4. The upgrade increased production, capacity, and efficiency in utilizing Recycled Asphalt Pavement (RAP) into New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) asphalt mixes for a growing Highway and Bridge Improvement Program (including the H.O.V. initiatives).
Posillico Materials began as Posillico Bros. Asphalt back in 1971. An offshoot of J.D. Posillico, the general contractor who first opened its doors in 1946, Posillico Bros. Asphalt (or PBA) operated as a batch plant with 2 silos that supplied asphalt largely to J.D. Posillico for road restoration in association with projects being completed for the Southwest Sewer District from 1971 - 1980.