Vast Enterprises, Fabcon Partner to Create Environmentally Friendly Brick Pavers

Vast Enterprises is launching its environmentally friendly brick paver off the ground and into walls through a deal with panel-making company Fabcon Inc.

Andy Vander Woude co-launched Vast in 2006, with plans to sell landscaping and deck pavers to homeowners. The firm’s products are made almost entirely from recycled materials, such as scrap tires, but are lightweight and sturdy enough to handle car traffic.

Vast officials met with Fabcon representatives earlier this year to talk over whether Vast’s paver could be modified for casting into wall panels. The companies ultimately inked a deal to launch a yet-to-be named brick product into the market early next year.

Savage-based Fabcon, which makes pre-cast concrete wall panels largely for industrial and commercial buildings, already sells its own environmentally friendly products, but was using traditional clay bricks in its panels. It saw a deal with Vast as an opportunity to use and promote the use of “green” bricks in its castings, said Fabcon CEO Mike Le Jeune.