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Dai-Tile International

[Formerly: American Olean Tile Co.)

.ansdale, Pennsylvania



The Road to Reuse

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Approximate total acres and
current use

Approximate Acres in Reuse: 31
Current Use:

Business park - office space,
warehousing and distribution,
light manufacturing

The former tile manufacturing facility run by Dai-
Tile is located on 90 acres in Lansdale, Pennsylvania.

This location has been home to glazed ceramic tile
manufacturing since 1927, when it was owned by
Franklin Tile Company In the early 1950s, operations
at this facility were taken over by American Encaustic
Tile Company The name of the company was changed
to American Olean Tile Company in 1959 and
manufacturing activities continued under this company
for another 36 years. Dai-Tile International, then the
largest U.S. manufacturer of ceramic tile, acquired
American Olean Tile Company in December of 1995.

The tile companies that utilized this facility manufactured a complete line of glazed wall tiles,
glazed bathroom accessories, and blazed and unglazed floor tiles. The manufacturing processes
were typical of the tile industry using raw materials such as flint, pyrophyllite, shale, clay, steatite,
whiting and kaolin. The glazes were made using heavy metal salts including barium, cadmium,
copper, cobalt, iron, manganese, nickel, lead, selenium, tin, zirconium, and zinc.

In February 2000, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a Final
Determination that no further corrective action is required at the facility because closure activities
were properly completed. The facility was closed in 1998 and the property was sold to Stoltz
Management, who has redeveloped the property into office space.



www. epa-.jrov/rea3wcmd/correctiveaction.htm

For More Information

EPA Region 3 Contact: Khai Dao,
(215) 814-814-5497, dao.khai@epa.gov

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