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…
Read MoreONE-STOP SHOP: STOCK UP ON KAFKA GRANITE LANDSCAPE MATERIALS
It’s that time of year! Spring is just around the corner and before you know it landscapers will be breaking ground on new and exciting projects. While there is still a white blanket of snow covering most of our lawns, homeowners are starting to plan for maintenance or new renovations of their yards, gardens, and…
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TEAM LAVALLEE HEADED TO THE 2013 WINTER X-GAMES
It’s that time of year. Soon action sports athletes from around the world will flock to Aspen, Colorado for the 2013 Winter X-Games, held January 24-27. Glenn Kafka, founder of Kafka Granite, will also be headed to Aspen as co-owner and crew chief of Team LaVallee. Team LaVallee will have an exciting schedule, as they…
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