Self-Performing Commercial
Concrete for 26 Years
Yoder Laser Concrete is an Amish owned commercial and industrial concrete contractor based in Millersburg, Ohio. We self-perform the whole concrete package, from site prep through finish, across Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, West Virginia and Pennsylvania.
Daniel Yoder
Founder and Owner
Daniel founded Yoder Laser Concrete in 2000 with a pickup truck and his own hands. The office is still at 163 East Adams Street in Millersburg, and he still walks the sites and prices the work.
The company started in residential flatwork. What moved it into commercial was the laser screed, a machine that places and levels to a designed grade in a single pass. That one capability let a Holmes County contractor bid warehouse floors that had always gone to firms out of Columbus and Cleveland.
The first Somero paid for itself and bought the second. Five sit in the yard today, all owned outright, and the company now places over a million square feet a year for Amazon, Pepsi, Walmart, Sam’s Club and Wayne Dalton.
What has not changed is who carries the risk. The crews on your pour are on Daniel’s payroll, and an estimator he trained reviews every set of drawings that comes in.
Daniel Yoder on a commercial pour in Holmes County, Ohio.
Twenty-Six Years,
Four Turning Points
2000
Founded in Millersburg. Daniel Yoder starts the company doing residential and light commercial flatwork in Holmes County.
The first Somero
Laser screed changes the ceiling. One machine placing to a designed grade in a single pass opens up warehouse and industrial floors that hand screeding could not hold to spec.
National accounts
Amazon, Pepsi, Walmart, Sam’s Club, Wayne Dalton. Distribution and manufacturing work across five states, including an 800,000 square foot fulfillment floor in Maryland.
Today
Five screeds, 20+ employees, a million square feet a year. Still self-performed, still run from the same street in Millersburg.
Poured Beside
An Active Runway
Two minutes and forty four seconds of our Somero S-15EZ running 3D laser screeding on a live airfield, with aircraft moving on the taxiway beside the pour.
Airfield work is the shortest way to explain how this company operates. Nobody lets a careless sub pour next to a live runway.
Old-World Ethics.
New-World Technology.
The Post ran a feature on Yoder Laser Concrete written by Kristen Mooney. These are the parts our general manager, John Clark, got exactly right.
"It starts from the time you schedule the project and track the weather until you step out of the truck on the project and make any adjustments to the concrete mix to compensate for deviations that the weather may provide."
John Clark, General Manager
"We get there early and work hard all day. It's old-world ethics, combined with new-world technology."
John Clark, General Manager
The Numbers On
Your Prequal Form
Every figure below is current and we will put it in writing. Certificates of insurance and EMR letters go out the same day you ask.
Certifications
ACI
Flatwork Finisher and Concrete Field Testing Technician certified. ACI and ASCC member.
OSHA 30
Carried by every crew leader, not just the safety officer.
Workforce
20+ direct
Everyone on your pour is a Yoder employee. We do not broker labour to whoever is free that week.
100+ years
Combined field experience across the crews. Licensed in Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, with Indiana and Michigan handled per project.
Five Somero Laser Screeds.
We Own Every One.
Most concrete contractors rent a screed when a job calls for one, so the machine that turns up is whatever the yard had free. We own five and bring the one the pour actually needs.
Somero S-240
Our largest boom screed. Built for wide-open warehouse and distribution floors where the pour runs long and flatness has to hold across the whole slab.
Large warehouse slabsSomero S-22
Mid-size boom screed for commercial and industrial floors. The machine that covers most of what a general contractor puts out to bid.
Commercial & industrial floorsSomero 940
Boom screed for sites where access is tighter than a big-box slab but the flatness spec has not moved.
Constrained sitesSomero S-15EZ
Runs 3D laser screeding, following the elevations the drawing calls for instead of a single flat plane. This is the machine for sloped, contoured and drainage-critical slabs.
3D grade controlSomero S-100
An 8-foot screed head on a 12-foot telescoping boom, placing close to 100 square feet per pass, and it handles low slump, larger aggregate and fibrous mixes. The right answer when a big machine cannot get in.
Small pours & interior workOwned outright and maintained by us. Ride-on power trowels and finishing equipment in house as well, so placement and finish are one crew and one responsibility.
One Sub. Dirt
Through Finish.
Every handoff between two subcontractors is a place the schedule slips and responsibility gets vague. We take the whole concrete package so there are fewer of them.
Site Prep & Dirt Work
Excavation and subgrade, so the slab is not inheriting somebody else's grade.
Footings & Foundations
Slab footers, foundation footers, column pads and piers, formed and placed by our crews.
Poured Walls
Foundation, retaining and frost walls, monolithic with steel continuous through the pour.
Slabs & Floors
Warehouse slabs, industrial floors and commercial pads, laser screeded in one pass.
Finish & Joints
Ride-on power trowel finish, joint sawing and sealing, on the same crew that placed it.
Closeout
Flatness results and pour records delivered the same day, so the concrete package clears before punch list.
Five States,
One Yard
Everything runs out of Millersburg. Crews and equipment mobilise from one yard, which is why the same people who bid your job are the people who pour it.
Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, West Virginia and Pennsylvania, and we will travel beyond that for the right project. Licensing and registration are handled per project and per jurisdiction.
Minimum size
20,000 square feet and up is where our equipment and crews are most efficient.
Markets
Distribution and fulfillment, manufacturing, mining and industrial, agricultural and rural, municipal and education.
Who we work for
General contractors, developers, project owners and construction managers. Pre-bid takeoffs and early design involvement welcome.
