Company

Commitment to Quality

GLM’s core business mission hinges on its’ commitment to quality and service and offering raw material products consistent in size, chemistry and physicality. Quality is tested at every stage of the production process.

About Us

Great Lakes Minerals, LLC (GLM), an American owned, privately held corporation, is a leading processor of alumina-based industrial minerals used as raw materials in the refractory and abrasive industries. GLM’s process includes crushing and sizing, packaging, and warehousing various industrial minerals.

Great Lakes Minerals Facility

Alumina Based Minerals

The primary alumina based minerals processed by GLM include refractory grade bauxite and brown fused aluminum oxide (BFA). GLM company headquarters and plant operations are located in Wurtland, Kentucky, strategically positioned on the Ohio River, allowing GLM to take advantage of the direct access for proper handling of feedstock from barge to plant.

Great Lakes Minerals Facility

State of the Art Technology

GLM utilizes state of the art processing technology making it one of the most efficient producers in the industry. GLM’s quality systems are modeled after ANSI/ASQC C1 1996 “General Requirements for a Quality Program”. The Company’s management team has a significant number of years in the industrial minerals industry with the core senior managers operating the plant since its startup.

Bonded abrasive application

Great Lakes Minerals, LLC
1200 Port Road
Wurtland, KY 41144 USA
606-833-8383

Receiving hours:

M-Th – 7am-3pm
Fr – 7am-12pm
Sa-Su – CLOSED

Directions From North

Take US 23 South to Wurtland, KY.
Turn left onto Uhlens Branch Road (KY 503).
This takes you over an overpass into an industrial park at the riverport.
Follow road until the end (approx. 1 mile).
We are the last plant on the right.

Directions From South

Take I-65 or I-75 north to Lexington, KY.
Take I-64 East.
Turn north on Industrial Parkway (KY-67) at Grayson, KY.
Turn right on US 23 to Wurtland, KY (approx. 1/4 mile).
Turn left on Uhlens Branch Road (KY 503).
This takes you over an overpass into an industrial park at the riverport.
Follow road until the end (approx. 1 mile).
We are the last plant on the right.

Directions From I-64

I-64 to Industrial Parkway (KY 67) at Grayson, KY.
Turn right on US 23 to Wurtland, KY (approx. 1/4 mile).
Turn left onto Uhlens Branch Road (KY 503).
This takes you over an overpass into an industrial park at the riverport.
Follow road until the end (approx. 1 mile).
We are the last plant on the right.

Inside view of Great Lakes Minerals facility

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