Paul D’Alessio, a graduate of the University of Arizona’s Landscape Architecture program founded Kalamazoo Materials, Inc. in 1985 after discovering an abundant supply of high quality decomposed granite above the Kalamazoo copper ore body in San Manuel, Arizona, thus providing Kalamazoo its name and its first color, Wildcat Red. Since then, the company has expanded to several locations throughout Arizona and Nevada. Popular products such as Apache Brown®, Mohave Gold®, Palomino Coral®, Rebel Red® and more have become common industry standards in multiple gradations ranging from 1MM minus to large showpiece boulders.
1985 San Manuel, AZ : Kalamazoo Materials owner Paul watching our very first material being made using a make shift screen. What we use to make in a week using that screen is what we make now in a hour.
