History will long remember the period as an age of urban development and a boom in building innovations. The Montalbine family, five brothers from Brooklyn, NY, immigrants with the desire for opportunity, became specialists in the field of
construction and foundations and established Roman Stone Construction Company. However the depression of the 1930s and two world wars ultimately reshaped the bu
siness and by the 1950s the company was taking a new direction. New York City’s large power utility, with their ever-increasing demands for new products, reached out to these experienced craftsmen with a new application for their skills. Concrete conduit became the new foundation for productivity in the company. Soon after it became apparent that the field of electrical construction was
ideal for new development. In a decision to allow this area of expansion to mature on its own, a subsidiary company was born and the name “Kindred Concrete Products” was unanimously adopted in 1952. Over the years, newer and better methods were explored to improve product service, quality and reliability. In
1991, a related but more diverse course was taken and “KCP,” as the company had come to be called, went into the “cast iron” business. Utilizing both foreign and domestic sources a large inventory of castings was amassed, many of
which complemented existing concrete products while still others opened the doors to a much larger market.
