• October 03. 2026

Quick Answer A gang saw cuts a marble block with a frame of blades moving back and forth. A multi-wire saw uses diamond wires running continuously around pulleys. Both cut many slabs at once, so the differences that matter commercially are how much stone each cut removes and what surface it leaves behind. Multi-wire can recover more material from the same block, but only where its actual cutting g...

• October 03. 2026

Quick Answer Look for cracks first, and for whether the stone around them is sound. Next, confirm that the slabs you are being shown are the slabs that will ship. Then get size, thickness and flatness as measurements rather than as descriptions. After those: the quality of the repair work, and how colour and veining hold up across the whole batch instead of on the best slab in it. That order follo...

• October 06. 2026

Quick Answer Marble supplier prequalification is the assessment of whether a stone supplier has the capability, production control and relevant experience to deliver a defined scope of supply — a specific marble, in a specific product form, at a specific project quantity. It is not a document-collection exercise. The real question is whether a supplier can take responsibility for the work yo...