After two years in development, Terminator Diamond Products has finally completed construction of its new CNC training facility in Charlotte, NC. Stone World magazine, along with fabricators from around the country were invited to an open house event promoting the new center and course offerings. While attending, it became clear that the company’s mission is to educate fabricators and grow this new facility to become a value add to the entire stone industry in a new light.
“The idea came about roughly two years ago,” said Vincent Salemi, owner of Terminator Diamond Products. “We were sitting down as a family and discussing our plans for the next year. While we’d come a long way in designing tooling suitable for new age materials, such as the popular ultra-compact surfaces on the market, we found that even with proper tooling, good working knowledge of how to fabricate these materials was lacking. My wife said, ‘Why don’t you come out with a training center?’ And just like that the idea was born. We all loved it, including our award-winning CNC instructor Eric Pate. With this center, we were interested in taking the unknown out of the industry; this industry isn’t like 20 year ago. You now need to be able to work with every and all products and be able to use the proper tools and proper methods to
be successful.”