The plant includes a Simec gangsaw and polishing line as well as a bridge saw, two overhead cranes and other equipment for loading and maneuvering the slabs. Although Vermont Quarries did not have to construct a building for plant, a significant amount of preparation work had to be done within the quarry. "The major step taken was leveling the quarry floor in the areas that we installed the equipment," said Todd Robertson of Vermont Quarries. "Concrete was the main feature, since we built the factory within the quarry and did not need a building. The concrete was poured for the foundation for both overhead cranes, the gangsaw, bridge saw and polishing line."
Before purchasing the equipment for the plant, the owners of Vermont quarries vistied with some of the main manufacturers of stoneworking equipment in Italy, and they also traveled to several stoneworking companies who used block processing equipment. "We selected the equipment based on our knowledge of what we felt was the best equipment out there for what our purposes dictated," Robertson said. Once the equipment was ordered, it took a total of one year to get everything up and running, including shipment of each piece of equipment from Italy to Vermont.