More than just mulch manufacturing.

Started off landscaping

At the age of 22, Jim Britton Jr. started Britton Landscaping with a pickup truck and one lawn mower. Britton Landscaping quickly picked off the ground and Jim ended up hiring two friends to help keep up with the demand.

land-clearing Division

While landscaping was a great starting point, Jim Britton knew he always wanted to get into construction. Jim continued his landscaping business on the side but dove into small land clearing jobs with nothing more than a chipper and a family friend’s backhoe.

Mid-Jersey Mulch

The raw material accumulated from land-clearing was piling up. Jim was buying mulch for his landscaping division, however knew he could create a product for much cheaper. So he bought his first grinder, which was the beginning of Mid-Jersey Mulch.

Lawrenceville Facility was Purchased

Jim was storing all of the material at his families farm in West Windsor, NJ. However, he needed somewhere else to put it. So he bought the Lawrenceville facility. This is still one of our most popular locations to this day. 

the creation of Britton industries

Mid Jersey Mulch, Britton Contracting and Britton Concrete joined together to establish Britton Industries, the mulch recycling, land clearing and concrete company.

Electric Stationary was built

With the amount of money that was being spent on diesel and the constant downtime, Jim knew there had to be a better way to grind material. This began the constant trial and error and eventual success of our electric grinders that we have at four of our locations.

colorant division established

We bought our colorants over-seas thus far. However, it was beginning to prove more difficult to purchase and the shipments were delayed. So our prior Concrete Division Manager, Jim McNellis, had a background in chemistry, and took on the challenge of making mulch colorants and it’s been successful ever since. 

Morrisville Yard was purchased

We were quickly outgrowing our offices at the Lawrenceville yard, so Morrisville was purchased to become our headquarters. The site needed a lot of cleaning and excavating but after lots of sweat and hard work, we were able to move our team to their new offices.

Britton Acquires south jersey recycling facility

Better known as our Marlton, New Jersey facility. This helped expand our market area to new territory, in addition to servicing our existing South Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania customer base.

Eastern Pennsylvania Demand

The opportunity to grow into Eastern Pennsylvania arose with our Telford location and we jumped on it. This allowed us to better serve our Montgomery county customers and go up into Lehigh Valley more efficiently.

Snow birds

Jim Britton had dreamed of opening a facility in Florida because the mulch season was the opposite time of the year as our Northeastern facilities. So, after years of searching, an opportunity popped up to acquire an existing recycling facility in Vero Beach and it became our Florida location.

Bags anyone?

An increase in demand for bagged material, brought us to expand our distribution method to include bags by the pallet. We installed two fully electric lines and are now producing our own bagged products, as well as co-packing for other suppliers.