About Rabine Paving
The Rabine name from the early 1960’s through the late 1970’s was “Gary Rabine and Sons.” A sole proprietor, Gary L. Rabine focused on residential services in the Northern Illinois. Gary L. Rabine was the only full time employee and his work force consisted of his four daughters two sons and a couple of part time employees. His services included light grading, excavating, tree removal, sand, gravel and topsoil delivery.
Gary T. Rabine enjoyed laboring with his dad and running small equipment. His specialty became grading yards and driveways. In 1976 Gary, 13 was hired for $5/hour to work for a family friend’s paving company. Over the next four years Gary realized his passion was paving.
Upon graduating from high school, Gary focused his efforts on paving services while also working for his fathers business. From 1981-1991, paving services grew to over 90% of the small company that had then become a partnership between Gary and his father. By the end of 1993 the small paving company had reached almost $2 million in sales. In May of 1994 Gary bought his father’s share of stock and aggressively doubled the geographic service area, tripled gross revenues and grew the team to 40 people by the year 2000.
From 2001 to 2005 major expansion continued with the addition of two asphalt plants, the acquisition of three companies an start up of several new companies all with what is not the Rabine Group. This has resulted in 500% growth rate to over $33 million in total sales and a workforce of over 250 people. The Rabine Group continues to seek out talented, passionate individuals who enjoy the challenge of our progressive industry. Gary truly believes ”Growth for the sake o growth is not our goal; It is to provide cutting edge service and the technology to our customers and constant opportunity for our company’s future leaders. That is our goal.”
Our goal is to continually surround us with talented, passionate people, ensuring our ability to exceed industry standards and customer expectations. We strive to fulfill this mission on a daily basis by doing things the Rabine way…
We will maintain the highest degree of customer service to ensure complete satisfaction leading to long-term relationships.
We build on technology, always with an eye on the future. Implementing this technology provides our customers with results that last.
We’re excited about the future. We will continue to strive to be the best…not the biggest. We appreciate the customer loyalties we’ve developed over the years and we look forward to the opportunity of performing for you
