Production Process Summary
 

• Raw blacks are cut from the mountainside in a variety of ways. The most common are diamond-impregnated steel wires or controlled explosive blasts. 
   

 

• Once the raw blocks have reached the processing plant, they are loaded into "gang saws" - arge machines with multiple blades spaced apart in accordance with slab gauge requirements.  The gang saws move backwards and forwards across the block descending slowly until the entire mass is cut into slabs.
   

 

• The slabs are kept exactly in the sequence and are moved onto a polishing machine which lays each slab down in order for one face to be polished.  The polished slabs are stacked in their original order and set apart in bundles for quality control and packing.  
   

 

• The issue of sequence is very important. It allows the accomplishment of highly elaborated designing projects using book-matching pieces. At least, when selecting slabs for your project, you will need that each of the slabs in a bundle are from the same block, bear the same coloration and hue, and have the same veins and surface features.