Lindsay Precast

Lindsay Precast was founded in 1961 with a range of five precast concrete products and a single plant. Sixty-five years later, the firm is family-owned still, operates from manufacturing plants in Ohio, Colorado, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Pennsylvania, and carries a product line of more than two hundred precast-concrete and fabricated-steel items — the tank vaults and manhole rings that sit below American streets, the security vault doors that sit in front of American bank and government-facility infrastructure, the pump stations and lift stations that move American water and wastewater, and the architectural precast elements that face American commercial and civic buildings. In the mid-1990s the firm extended its manufacturing base into steel fabrication, and now serves utility, municipal, banking, renewable-energy, and military customers from a single family-owned manufacturing footprint.

The firm designs and manufactures across seven principal precast categories: utility products (electrical vaults, telecommunications vaults, pull boxes); security vaults and vault doors for banking, government, and correctional-facility applications; bridges, box culverts, and arches for infrastructure projects; sanitary and storm-drainage systems (manholes, catch basins, inlet structures); pump stations and commercial-scale sewage-treatment plants; agricultural products (feed troughs, waterers, structural agricultural components); and architectural precast for building facades and site elements. The steel-fabrication side, added in the mid-1990s, supplies the fabricated-metal components that go into the same product families.

Two things distinguish Lindsay Precast among North American precast manufacturers: the sixty-plus-year continuous family ownership, and the deliberate breadth of the product line. Most precast operations of Lindsay’s scale specialise inside one or two of the seven categories the firm covers, and most non-utility precast firms do not carry vault-door or security-precast operations at all. Lindsay’s coverage of the full precast portfolio from a family-owned operating base — from municipal sanitary manholes through military-grade security vaults through architectural building precast — is unusual, and gives the firm a category presence in each of the sub-markets that a single-category operator would not have.