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Concrete dispatch (225) 929-5060Lumber & store (225) 675-5375Lumber & hardware quotesContact
About Sorrento
We started as a lumber company on the river. Today we run eight ready-mix plants, a mobile batch plant, and a lumber yard and hardware store in Sorrento.
Since 1944
Founded by Frank and Sammie Melancon
8 plants
Ready-mix across South Louisiana
1 yard & store
Lumber and hardware in Sorrento
Avetta
Member, trusted to deliver inside chemical plants and refineries
Our story
Frank and Sammie Melancon founded Sorrento Lumber in 1944 to supply the building needs of their small town. The yard became a fixture in the community, known for friendly service and for helping neighbors build.
Ready-mix came later, and today it’s most of what we do: eight plants from Zachary to Wallace and a mobile batch plant for the biggest jobs. We still run the lumber yard and hardware store on Airline Highway, we have great respect for the way we started, and four generations later we’re still family owned.
After the 2016 flood, Sorrento’s mayor named reopening Sorrento Lumber critical to the town’s recovery (The Advocate).
The people behind every load. Women of our Baton Rouge division, from dispatch and order taking, quality control and sales to our drivers, for Women in Construction Week 2025.
What we stand for
Held to the standard of the plants we supply.
An Avetta member. Every week, supervisors make unannounced checks of drivers’ vehicle inspections, and document each one.
Strong concrete, from a strong crew.
Any mix design, from residential flatwork to pervious, with slump monitored on the way to your pour.
Our customers, our people and our parishes.
Direct lines to the people who quote, dispatch and deliver your concrete. Family owned since 1944.
Our values
Our mission is to assist our customers in building materials and ready-mix concrete while maintaining the highest level of customer service and satisfaction.
Sorrento Serves
Ballfields, parks, schools and Friday nights across South Louisiana, and the neighbors who make them happen.
Oct 2026 · Wildcat Stadium, Walker
Pink night for cancer awareness, with a Sorrento tent at the gate and pink fans for the whole crowd. Sorrento’s sales team is in the stands at Friday night games across the area.
Aug 2026
Spring Park now has an ADA-accessible walkway to the city’s springs, a Leadership Livingston project. Sorrento donated the concrete, and L. King formed and finished it.
Mar 2026
Students met the careers inside ready-mix, from logistics to quality control, and watched water pass straight through pervious concrete.
2024 to 2026
Baton Rouge’s St. Patrick’s Day parade has rolled with a Sorrento float three years running.
Jul 2025
A local child’s wish became a custom treehouse, built by MAPP, Make-A-Wish and DDG with help from trade partners including Sorrento.
Aug 2023
The school’s softball players train in new batting cages on concrete Sorrento provided, a gift the school called “incredible generosity.”
Jul 2023
An Eagle Scout’s memorial garden stands on donated Sorrento concrete, formed and finished by Hope Haven Marble and Granite.
Also proud to support
Planning a local event or fundraiser?
We’d like to hear about it.
Lindsay Fife BerthelotPresident and CEO
Leadership
CEO since 2022, Lindsay leads a fourth-generation family business through a company-wide modernization, from operations and technology to culture and leadership development, while keeping the values Sorrento was built on.
“I share this recognition with the entire Sorrento team. Their trust, hard work and willingness to embrace change are what make progress possible.”
Lindsay, on the 2026 Vanguard Award
In the news
CheckProofSep 29, 2026
Lindsay on the CEO panel “The Corner Office Weighs In: Where the Industry Is Headed.”
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Rock ProductsSep 17, 2026
Lindsay Fife Berthelot receives the first AggNexus Vanguard Award.
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Rock ProductsSep 15, 2026
A profile of Lindsay as the Vanguard Award winner and her modernization of Sorrento.
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Command AlkonJan 29, 2026
Lindsay joins Command Alkon’s leadership session at North America’s largest construction trade show.
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Concrete ProductsNov 25, 2024
The trade magazine’s roundup of the Elevate winners, Lindsay among them.
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Command AlkonSep 18, 2024
Lindsay named Outstanding Woman in Heavy Building Materials Industry, nominated by industry peers.
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