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Special Report - Real Estate & Construction - August 16, 2012
Brick by brick, Mutual Materials plant add layers here and abroad
Mutual Materials' products adorn prominent structures

By Treva Lind
Of the Journal of Business

Mutual Materials' plant in Mica, a few miles south of Spokane Valley, currently is producing about 22 million bricks a year. In busier years, it's made more than 40 million bricks.
Mutual Materials' plant in Mica, a few miles south of Spokane Valley, currently is producing about 22 million bricks a year. In busier years, it's made more than 40 million bricks.
—Staff photo by Treva Lind
The bricks that enhance the appearance and structural integrity of many highly visible buildings in the Spokane area have their origins as a high-temperature-fired clay product crafted only a few miles south of Spokane Valley.

Along state Route 27 in Mica, a brick plant owned by Bellevue-based Mutual Materials Co. has manufactured multiple sizes and colors of bricks for more than 100 years. Its brick became the featured material of choice for a number of Inland Northwest commercial...


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