While their company may have been new when they opened their Alabama facility near Mobile, president Gasper K. Naquin and his partners were hardly strangers to the stone industry. “G.K.,” as most know him, has spent 33 years in the industry and had previously owned a granite and marble business in New Orleans, LA. He is also known to many as an instructor for the Marble Institute of America's educational program. He and his partners have all been working together for 10 to 20 years. They attribute much of their success to high production made possible by efficient operations, which include tooling and machinery that they dedicate to perform specific operations.

“We like single-focused machines,” Naquin said. “I don't want a machine that can do 15 different things, because that just means 15 different problems. When you get machines that do too many things, they don't do any of them real well. Because we do volume, I want a heavy-duty machine built to do one thing that will last a long time.”