Owner Maurice Huertas founded the company in 1998 when production stood at merely one kitchen every other week. With assistance from two helpers, he worked out of a 4,400-square-foot facility processing stone by hand using a Marmoelettromeccanica Master 3500 portable router from Regent Stone Products.
Today, the company has grown to include 62 employees who work out of a 26,000-square-foot space on four acres of land. The company has utilized CNC technology for the last six years, and it has recently added an Intermac Master Stone 4000 stoneworking center from AGM (its third AGM/Intermac CNC), to its shop. “CNC technology allows us to do applications, like custom shapes and edge detail, that would not be possible to do by hand,” said Huertas, adding that in-house labor has been reduced by more than 50% due to CNC technology.
The facility also contains four saws, including a Camma bridge saw from Italy, two Matrix GSC 2000/2001 bridge saws and a Metafill SP450 bridge saw from Brazil; four edge polishers: a Sasso Meccanica TE inline multi-head profiler and a Flying Flat Sasso Meccanica edging machine, both from U.S Granite Machinery, as well as a CMPI Mini 60 and a Monlevi Multiprofil Mod IT.