Over Eight Decades of Excellence

Our founder, Roscoe Burke, envisioned a customer-oriented, and highly engineered experience when he founded Burke Industries in 1942 in San Jose, CA. At its inception, Burke was the centerpiece of a primarily agricultural community surrounded by orchards until the creation of the technology industry in the later part of the century. While much of the surrounding community around Burke has changed, the orchards have disappeared, and a city has rapidly surrounded the facility, the core tenants that Roscoe embodied have remained. Roscoe’s vision allowed him to cultivate relationships in industries such as flooring, military, aerospace and many others. His colleagues described him as a pioneer who often developed novel, industry-leading solutions to optimize the factory. Roscoe continued to lead Burke Industries until his death.