The factory is owned by Jack Lee, who grew up in Beijing and now operates P & L Marble out of Farmingdale, NY. Lee originally worked as an importer in Long Island, New York, for 15 years, and eventually began a manufacturing operation in China in the early 1990s.
The slate and quartzite operation employs a total of 80 people, with two shifts in place. And while it only produced slate and quartzite tiles at first, it expanded to also produce mosaics around two years ago.