• September 20. 2026

Quick Answer Buying direct starts to make sense when your marble demand becomes predictable: you reorder the same varieties, need several varieties in one shipment, want control over the actual slabs, or have enough project volume to justify buying closer to the source. A local slab yard still has the advantage when you need a few slabs quickly and do not want to carry inventory. The practical dec...

• September 28. 2026

Quick Answer By the time this decision comes up, the material is usually settled and the drawings already exist. The question is whether to ship slabs and fabricate them locally, or send the drawings to the supplier and receive finished cut-to-size pieces. For projects with reasonably stable drawings, we usually prefer fabrication at origin when the stone is sourced in Shuitou, China. Material sel...

• 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...