Kafka Granite throws their 5th Annual Employee Appreciation Celebration: For the last five years, Glenn and Beverly Kafka, owners of Kafka Granite, have expressed their extreme gratitude towards their employees by throwing a summer celebration. This year was no exception, as employees gathered with their friends and families at the Kafka’s lakefront home for some…
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KAFKA GRANITE OFFERS ORGANIC-LOCK
Kafka Granite now offers another stabilized pathway option: Organic-Lock™, the strongest performing Organic Glue on the market, is now offered through Kafka Granite! The patented formula, which is the result of more than 10 years of Agricultural and Geotechnical Science, can be combined with Kafka Granite’s 40+ colors of natural stone and recycled materials, creating…
Read MoreWHITE IS THE NEW GREEN
Kafka Granite’s White Roof Aggregates help reduce the Heat Island Effect: Finally! Summertime is here and the sun’s getting hotter. Throughout the nation, temperatures are on the rise. However, did you know that the annual mean air temperature in cities can be 1.8 to 5.4°F warmer than its rural surroundings? According to the United States…
Read MoreFROM WOOD LAND TO CROP LAND: KAFKA LAND CLEARING SERVING CENTRAL WISCONSIN
With the long and cold winter season finally behind us, Kafka Land Clearing is keeping busy. The Kafka Land Clearing team is traveling throughout Central Wisconsin working in conjunction with loggers to clean up the brush and remove the stumps after the timber has been harvested. Our 1000 horsepower Peterson grinder then finishes the job…
Read MoreTIFFANY KAFKA JOINS KAFKA GRANITE FULL-TIME
Tiffany Kafka, daughter of Glenn and Beverly Kafka, has joined Kafka Granite as a full time employee. Tiffany has worked as a marketing representative part-time while earning her Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. There, Tiffany pursued a double major in Marketing Management and Family…
Read MoreFEATURED PROJECT: UW-Madison Indoor Softball Practice Facility
[new_royalslider id=”36″] Kafka Granite’s Burma Red Hilltopper* Infield Mix has been the premier choice for many major colleges throughout the US including Northwestern University, The University of Notre Dame, The University of Michigan, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, The University of Iowa, and many more. However, last fall, Kafka Granite was finally able to sell Burma…
Read MoreKAFKA GRANITE FOUNDERS CELEBRATE 30 YEARS
On Tuesday, April 16th, Glenn and Beverly Kafka celebrated their 30th Wedding Anniversary. If it wasn’t for their union, Kafka Granite would not be the successful family owned and operated business it is today. Soon after her boyfriend had started his own business in 1979, Beverly Starzinski switched her course of study from fashion merchandising…
Read MoreCONGRATS 2013 SMALL BUSINESS OF THE YEAR RECIPIENTS
As a past recipient of the Wausau Region Chamber of Commerce’s Small Business of the Year award, Kafka Granite would like to congratulate all of these year’s winners. On Tuesday, RMM Solutions was announced this years winner in the Business to Business category, while Young’s Drug Store won the Business to Consumer title and Boys…
Read MoreKAFKA BIOMASS SERVICES NEW BIOMASS ENERGY PLANT
The umbrella of Kafka businesses has grown! We are proud to announce the addition of Kafka Biomass, a new business that will service the We Energies/Domtar Biomass Energy Plant that was recently built in Rothschild, Wisconsin. In the fall of 2009, Domtar and We Energies announced their plans to build a 50-megawatt biomass-fueled cogeneration facility…
Read MoreLAVALLEE TAKES HOME DOUBLE GOLD
Another Winter X-Games is in the books, and another two gold medals hang around the neck of one of the world’s most decorated and diversified snowmobile athletes. After a two year absence from the Winter X-Games, Levi LaVallee returned and increased his medal count to nine (six of them being gold). LaVallee had a jam-packed…
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