Superior Walls could double its coverage area

When I talked to Superior Walls president Stacey Harvey on Friday, he said he had just returned from a meeting in Atlanta where he was negotiating a deal to double the coverage area of the local facility.

If this deal happens ‘ and Stacey made sure to emphasize the if ‘ he said it would add about 20 jobs to the local workforce.

‘We’re trying to do the deal,’ said Stacey. ‘We haven’t done the deal yet.’

Superior Walls manufactures concrete-based walls at its plant in Rock Island and then trucks those completed walls to the job site. By expanding its coverage area, our local facility would buy the right to sell its product to more customers.

Since Superior Walls is tied to the building industry, I asked Stacey if the company experienced a lean 2007.

‘Sales were up 15 percent last year but I expected them to be up more than that, north of 40 percent,’ said Stacey. ‘In 2008 it might be a little bit slow but I’m not buying into the doom and gloom talk.’