Sioux City Brick & Tile Co. is a long-time manufacturer of high quality clay brick and a distributor of related masonry products. Our company corporate office is located in Sioux City, Iowa, with manufacturing plants located at Sergeant Bluff, Iowa and Adel, Iowa. Our local distribution sales and warehousing sites are in Sioux City, Iowa, Des Moines, Iowa, Omaha Nebraska, and Bloomington, Minnesota. Our manufactured products are also sold through independent brick distributors nationwide. The company employs some 250 people directly and has an annual production capacity of over 140 million brick. We, at Sioux City Brick, hope you find your visit to our site interesting and informative. We welcome your inquiry.

The superior Iowa clays of Sioux City Brick have been mined for over 140 years at the site of the manufacturing facility at Sergeant Bluff, Iowa. This plant, nationally recognized for quality architectural Natural Ironspot colors and the new red burning manufacturing plant at Adel, Iowa, combine to offer one of the most diverse color lines of quality brick in the country.

Since 1913...

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Sioux City Brick, formally incorporated in 1913, has a history of innovative color development and continuous product improvement. With family management active from the Fifth generation, Sioux City Brick has demonstrated a commitment to quality brick, assuring a final product unsurpassed for durability and beauty. The people at Sioux City Brick continually seek better ways to "Make Great Brick" and offer a higher level of customer service.

Ultra-modern Production Facilities

Today's designers require a beautiful and consistent product. The state-of-the-art plant at Sergeant Bluff, Iowa built in 1997, features gentle and precise robotic handling equipment, a vertical lift cutter for a crisp architectural edge, a water-sealed kiln ensuring color uniformity, and sophisticated computer controls for reliable recipe duplication. Sioux City Brick has now complimented its Sergeant Bluff, IA plant with a new Adel, IA facility. The first Adel phase was built in 2001 to produce FBX Architectural brick, the second phase was completed in late 2006 and it produces primarily residential products. This fully intergrated the Adel facility features the new economical "Builders Special® Size".
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Customer Oriented and Experienced Personnel

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As design choices evolve and shape patterns become more demanding, Sioux City Brick's experienced Sales, Customer Service, and Production personnel stand ready to meet the challenge. In addition, Sioux City Brick's Administrative and Computer Specialists strive to keep Customer Service user-friendly through an innovative on-line inventory and order system.

Size and Shape Flexibility with a Diverse Color Palette

Sioux City Brick has always maintained a flexible production approach: flexibility in colors, sizes and special shapes, Size Flexiblity was designed into both of our production facilities. We have recognized that designers want size choices. ( COMPARATIVE COSTS ). Additionally, both manufacturing locations have separate special shape extrusion lines. Sioux City Brick manufactures several hundred thousand custom brick shapes annually. Starting with the designer's drawings, CAD isometric drawings are produced for customer approval. Then, templates are made for all shapes, and the shapes are made and fired along with the stretcher brick. Close coordination of shape detailing is emphasized throughout this process.