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Home » Stone fabrication from a manufacturing perspective
"We have seen that the U.S. is turning to the service industry over manufacturing, with many of the manufacturing companies going offshore and overseas," said Barone. "I had built homes, and I learned about granite from that." While Barone specializes in quality control and operations, Bates has a background in purchasing and global procurement, a role that has taken him around the world on sourcing trips.
"The economy was right [to enter the stone industry], with the interest rates," Barone said, adding that he conducted a market study with data from the U.S. Bureau of the Census as well as the national homebuilding association. "We found a strong West Coast market, a strong Florida market and a strong Washington/Baltimore market," he said. "The Northeast was also saturated with [stone fabricators]."