The Shelly Company Quality Control Lab is located at 8775 Blackbird Lane in Thornville, Ohio.

On Thursday September 28, 2006, several representatives from the Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois Departments of Transportation and representatives from the Federal Highway Administration visited Shelly Materials Plant #90 in Columbus to see our new asphalt sampler. Despite a rainy day, it was a very successful tour. Everyone was impressed with the sampler, the plant, and the Shelly Materials operation.

This new device now provides a safe, simple and cost effective method to extract a representative sample from a loaded truck. Last year, The Shelly Company Quality Control Lab partnered with HMA Lab Supply to design the unit pictured below. While other vendors offer a similar unit for approximately $30,000, the Shelly/HMA engineered sampler cost less than $10,000 to design and build. Thus far, the new sampler has been a huge success.