WHO WE ARE
Over 45 years ago, in his tiny backyard in Los Angeles, our founder and visionary, Mark Gelfat, transitioned his landscape design business into the development, prototyping and introduction of precast concrete fences and the molds that make them. At age 25, many of his clients were eager for an alternative to ugly concrete block walls or wood fences that deteriorated over time.
That and his experience using colored concrete for pool decks and walkways, was his motivation to create his first product, Woodcrete. They were the first double-sided wood grain, textured, and colored privacy fences in the US market — as were the Woodcrete Rail fences.
Customers in the beginning were homeowners. They had to touch and experience the fence to believe it. People still do that today, as they did at our first exhibit at the Los Angeles Home and Garden Show in 1980. In 1981, FENCE INDUSTRY and CONCRETE PRODUCTS magazines featured an introduction to Woodcrete. Before long, homebuilders specified Woodcrete as perimeter walls for entire communities. With that, big box stores, utility companies and local governments transitioned from the typical fences they had been accustomed to. Customers still love the appearance of wood and our other textures sculpted in concrete which deliver the appearance and maintenance-free permanence they want surrounding their property.
Today, as the concrete fence market has grown exponentially, he now sells the fence molds to other companies, to grow and expand their businesses with his well-known products.
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46+
Years in
Business
1,000s
Fences & Molds Sold
Worldwide
1st
Wood Grain Double-Sided
Concrete Fence in the US
CONCRETEFENCEMOLDS.COM
Paradigm Innovations
23055 Sherman Way No. 5091
West Hills, CA 91307