Minick Materials was founded in 1958 by Kenneth Minick and his wife, Nova.

In 1968, Luiz Scaramussa — with the support of his entire family — combined a small shed and a single gangsaw to start a sawmill to produce Santo Antonio white marble.

Chad Briles’ grandfather has been in the tile and stone industry for over 60 years, and Chad started working for him when he was 13

The International Surface Event East (TISE) made its debut in October at the Miami Beach Convention Center in Miami Beach, FL.

Brian, Mike and John Rector first began pulling fieldstone out of the woods and hills of Tennessee with their father over 25 years ago.

The John F. Kennedy Space Center, in Cape Canaveral, FL, was originally built to launch the Saturn V, to date the only launch vehicle to transport human beings beyond low Earth orbit, for the Apollo manned moon landing program.

Like most fabricators in the industry, Chris Garten, president of Signature Countertops, Inc. in Scottsburg, IN, started out using luan strips to template.

In 2007-08, Brian Johnson, president of Johnson Granite, Inc. in Mount Airy, NC, made a decision to help the longevity of his company.

While the amount of digital and new technology shops increase, there are still a few out there that believe in the “old school” way of doing things.

When it comes to running a business, arguably the two most important things are time and money, and more often than not, they relate directly to each other.