Salzl explained that prior to opening his own stone business, he spent 12 years working for Cold Spring Granite Co. of Cold Spring, MN. As an employee for one of the largest stone producers in the world, Salzl gained valuable experience that he applied to his own company. Today, Salzl runs StoneCrafters along with his two sons, Kurt and Dean.
“We are kind of unique because we do a lot of tabletops,” said Kurt Salzl. “They are growing by the minute. We can hardly keep up with it.” Vern Salzl explained that he first got the idea to mass produce tabletops after making a table for his daughter’s office in Minneapolis, where she was an attorney. She had received so many compliments on the table that it got the fabricator thinking that there could be a profit in tabletop production.