BEI Hawaii traces its beginning to 1890, when a small Honolulu company began importing albatross guano from the Pacific’s remote Laysan Island. As sugar and pineapple grew into major agricultural industries in Hawaii, the company expanded its line of products to include commercial fertilizers and crop protection products.
In 1927, the company, then known as Pacific Guano and Fertilizer Company, opened a branch on the island of Hawaii, following later with additional facilities on Maui and Kauai. The company began blending its own fertilizers on all major islands. Its Laboratory Services Division in Papaikou on the island of Hawaii became an important resource for soil and plant tissue analysis, paving the way for custom blended fertilizers. By the 1930’s, Hawaii became the world’s most efficient grower of sugarcane and pineapple. Our fertilizer and specialty chemical brand, Gaviota, became synonymous with these crops.
Building on that expertise, the company, under several name changes, took on the challenges of Hawaii’s growing diversified agricultural business. Known as Brewer Chemical, and later as Brewer Environmental Industries, the company became the primary manufacturer of fertilizers for Hawaii’s major plantation crops – sugar, pineapple and macadamia nuts. Today, seed corn is the dominant agricultural crop and we continue to be a principal supplier for their specific crop needs.
The world also knows Hawaii as a world class travel destination. BEI Hawaii successfully became the primary supplier of fertilizers, chemicals and sand to Hawaii’s golf course and landscape markets. BEI Hawaii pioneered the use of high grade silica sands for golf courses and continues to provide USGA sand and custom blended rootzone mixes for new golf course construction, renovations and ongoing maintenance requirements.
Honolulu, Hawaii 96817
The challenge of providing customers predictible, high quality material at the exact moment of need is championed at all levels of the company. The senior management team is hands-on, implementing corporate policy through strong family values.Long-term critical planning is essential to successfully serving Florida's construction, manufacturing and agricultural industries for the rest of this century. The Jahna family of companies is up to the challenge.
As one of Florida's leading suppliers of aggregates, Jahna maintains mine and staging sites throughout the state. As with real estate, the value of your cost-effective basic materials is location, location, location. We understand that the closer you are to the supply, the less your shipping costs will be and the shorter your supply lines become. That’s a big reason our mines are close to the major growth areas.
The entire network of operations are directed from our corporate office conveniently located in the Downtown Lake Wales Historic District. In addition to our operating mines scattered throughout the state, Jahna maintains thousands of acres of mining reserves in current and future growth areas.....your assurance that quality Jahna products will always be close at hand.
The value is in location, location, location. And ours is always close to yours.
For over 50 years, Jahna has been known as the best source of quality sand in Florida. In fact, for over half a century our customers have called us “The Sand Man.” Let us turn your dreams of an endless supply of conservatively graded and fairly priced small aggregates into reality..
Lake Wales, Florida 33853
Landscape Products Inc. is a family owned and operated company. We have been producing landscape supplies and covering Florida since 1984. We started packaging by hand, producing 200-500 bags per week. Within our first 6 months of business the first bagging machine in the south was purchased that helped produce up to 6,000 bags per day. We were supplying feed stores to box stores, at that time Builders Square, and Scotty’s were mulch bags was done by weight which was 30 lbs. Soon our packaging went to 2 cu ft. which many follow as today’s standard practice.
Landscape Products Inc. started producing their own mulches in 1996, and produced the first colored (RED) mulch in 1997, introducing it to Home Depot in January 1998, where it then was a part of the Florida landscape in the south. Landscape Products Inc. then produced Gold, Black and Brown mulches that beautify a landscape and colorant that lasts a full year.
Landscape Products Inc. now manufactures, packages and ships over 20 different landscaping ground covers throughout Florida and the Caribbean, beautifying the landscape, making long lasting relationships which continue for many seasons. Landscape Products Inc. has many distributers throughout the state, and our products have been on these shelves over the years–Publix, Winn-Dixie, Home Depot, and Wal-Mart. Also, many amusement parks bring long lasting safe materials to our environment. Thanks from Landscape Products Inc. for letting us be a part of your projects year after year.