Operating Since 1965
Kinder Plant
Arena Industrial (“Arena”) is comprised of two aggregate mining and processing facilities in Kinder, LA (the “Kinder Plant”) and Greenwell Springs, LA (the “Baywood Plant”).
The Kinder Plant has been operating since 1965 and was founded to mine, process, and supply high-quality silica sand to an international chemical manufacturer located in the region. In 2008, a second mining facility was added to the Kinder Plant to increase mining capacity. Today, the Kinder Plant’s two mining facilities sit on 1,000 acres of 80 million tons of proven and recoverable sand reserves. It boasts an annual nameplate production capacity of 1.5 million tons of mined, washed, classified, and dried white river silica sand. Throughout its 55-year existence, the Kinder Plant added many trusted product lines including various grades of silica sands, masonry, and concrete sands, and frac sand proppants to meet customer needs.
Baywood Plant
The Baywood Plant has been operating since 1989 and was founded to mine, process, package, and supply filter media to regional chemical plants, refineries, and water treatment facilities. The Baywood Plant was rebuilt in 1996, and from 2010 to 2012 it underwent a significant expansion to increase its annual production capacity to nearly 1.0 million tons. Over the last 31 years, the Baywood Plant has offered its customers best-in-class aggregates and filter media including sand, gravel and anthracite filter media, specialty concrete blending sand, swimming pool pebble aggregates, and frac sand proppants.
Arena’s Kinder and Baywood Plants are managed by a team of experienced professionals with over 250 years of combined experience in the aggregate mining and processing industry. At Arena, we take great pride in our work and strive to love our neighbors as ourselves.