Articles Tagged with ''CNC stoneworking''

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Adapting a business to a global pandemic

Rick Self, the business development head for Terminator, discusses the company’s business changes in the past year, how they are moving forward and how automation can assist shops
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Jason Kamery
March 8, 2021
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Rick Self started his path in the stone industry in 1999 with an impulsive purchase of a Flow Waterjet – no knowledge, no customers, no contacts, no real thought going in.
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Polyone by Pellegrini

December 2020 Machine of the Month

December 7, 2020
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Polyone is Pellegrini’s new revolutionary multi-wire saw. With its special wire winding geometry, the Polyone–20 model makes 20 cuts in one single shot, with only 10 wires at 1cm thickness; or 14 slabs at 2cm with seven wires; or 10 cuts of 3cm with five wires.


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Alpha & Omega Stone

Stoneworking technology fuels growth

Alpha & Omega Stone in Belleville, NJ, relies on technology to be more efficient and to produce better results than its competition
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Jason Kamery
July 6, 2020
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Back in 2014, Roxanne Brown, co—owner of Alpha & Omega Stone in Belleville, NJ, was using other fabricators to do the fabrication work while she was brokering jobs to bring in business.
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Presetters transfer all parametric information

The benefits of CNC tooling presetters

Learn how presetters are increasing the life of CNC tools — making calibration easy and allowing tool setting in a fraction of the time
April 12, 2020
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A presetter is a device that uses software to automatically and precisely perform the measurement or scanning of a tool’s geometry. Adding a presetter to enhance stone or glass operations in your shop offers all kinds of advantages.
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Going digital: Superior Granite of Mankato

In a short period of time, Superior Granite of Mankato, MN, made the transition from a manual to completely digital shop
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Jason Kamery
April 7, 2020
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For 15 years, Paul Getz was a tile installer. On one of his projects, Getz subbed out the fabrication work for a countertop and installed it himself. This trend of installing countertops continued for a while before Getz decided to open up his own countertop fabrication business.
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Advancements in CNC tooling

Advancements in CNC tooling

As CNC tooling becomes more precise, fabricators must continuously educate themselves on how to use them and what new products exist
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Jason Kamery
September 17, 2019
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The day fabricators could use just one saw blade or one core bit is mostly over. Because of the expansion of new and different materials to the market, CNC tooling companies and suppliers have to continuously update their tools.


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City Creek Center in Salt Lake City, UT

Natural stone provides sustainability

Two varieties of Coldspring granite were specified for the design of the City Creek Center in Salt Lake
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Jason Kamery
September 25, 2018
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Located in Salt Lake City, UT, the City Creek Center is a mixed-use development that features a replica of the area’s historic City Creek running through it, complete with 300 live trout, more than 600 trees and hundreds of native plants.
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Monks fabricate stone for monastery

Monks use Natural Stone to Build Spiritual Oasis

Determined to construct their new monastery on a picturesque mountaintop property in Meeteetse, WY, despite budget constraints, the Monks of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel dedicated their time and skills to learning to work a CNC machine and fabricate the stone pieces themselves
April 3, 2018
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Faced with cost provisions, the monks took on the impressive challenge of learning to operate a CNC stoneworking center and fabricate all of the stone needed for the project themselves.
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