During a Stone Fabricator’s Alliance (SFA) Workshop hosted by American Floor Covering in East Hartford, CT, the shop’s production manager, Joe Durfee, demonstrated how to thermoform a piece of quartz surfacing.

Annual planning tends to go one of two ways. Either you walk in with numbers you trust and spend the time on decisions, or you spend the first hour arguing about whether the numbers are right and never get to the decisions at all. The difference is usually a couple of weeks of housekeeping done beforehand.