Marble and Granite Monuments Manufacturing
As demand for marble and granite monuments has increased, a few stone companies have stopped taking new orders. They need to make sure they can satisfy existing contracts. Santa Barbara Monumental in California, for example, ordered a large shipment of granite from India last May. While they anticipated that it should arrive in December, it only arrived in mid-February. Presently, the company hopes to increase production from four to five days seven days. It is unclear assuming that the influx of new orders will increase the volume of production, however they are making a significant investment of time and energy to maintain the quality of their work. The most common way of engraving a marble and granite monument begins with the creation of a stencil. Stencils are elastic sheets that have an adhesive backing. The plan is cut from the stencil with a X-Acto blade or cutting machine. Once the elastic stencil is cut, the monument is taken to a blasting room, where abrasive...