Courtney and Oskar Gruber founded Chippewa Stone, in Medina, OH, in 2004, at first as a one-stop home remodeling business who outsourced their stonework. In 2008, they began cutting and fabricating stone themselves, eventually focusing solely on what they did best -- stone fabrication. Nearly a decade after Chippewa Stone started cutting their own slabs, Oskar and Courtney decided they had enough of the service they were putting up with for their bridge saw at the time.
“The previous company we purchased from was great -- right up until the machine was installed,” said Oskar Gruber. “After that, we never heard from them and getting service felt like we were being an inconvenience to them.”