our story
Portolite Pitching Mounds is a family-owned and operated business based in Minnesota. We have set the standard in lightweight, durable, portable pitching mounds since 1992. Portolite Pitching baseball mounds and softball mats are in use at thousands of high schools, colleges, and park and recreation departments across the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia.
Owner Chad Hoppe has over 23 years of experience with Portolite and loves crafting products that make a difference. He’s passionate about every step of the production process and takes pride in watching the baseball mounds and softball mats take shape one-by-one.
a little history.
Minnesota can be a tough place to play ball in the winter, spring and fall. In 1988, Mike Hoppe, a hard-throwing southpaw for the Hamel Hawks, was in search of a portable mound for his off-season training and conditioning. Dissatisfied with the hard-shell, extremely heavy products available at the time, and tired of re-finishing the gym floor it scratched, gouged, and generally trashed, he decided to find a better way.
Portolite Products introduced its first product at an indoor, professional baseball training facility in 1989.
Three years of rigorous testing in various indoor and outdoor environments, at all age levels, led to the engineering and materials needed to provide you, the customer, the very best, environmentally friendly, portable pitching mound products available, anywhere.
Our products are built with pride in materials and craftsmanship, and our customers are treated as if our business depended on them. Which, of course, it does.
