APOROZONA is a worker-owned cooperative operating out of a 6,000 sqft machine shop in Salem, Oregon. We make garden tools and replacement parts because we couldn't find ones that held up.
Every part we design is serviceable. Bolts over rivets. Standard threads over proprietary. If you can open it with a 10mm wrench, we probably made it.
We ship free return labels for worn blades. We resharpen or recycle them. In fourteen years, not one APOROZONA blade has gone to landfill from our shop.
A worker cooperative since incorporation. Every person on the shop floor owns a share and gets a vote — including the tooling decisions.
Behind the shop is an acre we maintain ourselves. Nothing gets a SKU until a co-owner has used it through a full season of wear.
Founded above a feed store in Salem, OR. Three people, one lathe.
First replacement blade for the AR series — still our best seller.
Moved into the current 6,000 sqft shop. Hired numbers 8 through 11.
Reincorporated as a worker cooperative. No outside investors, ever.
Catalogue hits 2,400 SKUs. Launch of the irrigation line.
14 CO-OWNERS / SALEM, OR