Cold Spring Granite CompanyEstablished in 1898, Cold Spring Granite Company is a family-owned company headquartered in Cold Spring, Minnesota with over 1250 employees. It is the largest quarrier and manufacturer of architectural building and residential stone and memorial products in North America. The company has five manufacturing locations: Cold Spring, Minnesota; Marble Falls, Texas; Raymond, California; Lake Placid, New York; and Lac du Bonnet, Manitoba, Canada. Among these is a state-of-the-art bronze foundry, featuring the most technologically advanced equipment and cutting edge procedures in the memorial and architectural signage marketplace. Cold Spring Granite also produces diamond-plated stone cutting and shaping tools for its own use and for sale in the stone industry. In all, Cold Spring Granite's quarries and operations cover over 18,000 acres and occupy 1.2 million square feet of manufacturing space. Its breadth is further enhanced by its strategic alliances with world stone sources of finished and raw stone exceeding 150 colors of stone, making the company the industry's stone solutions provider.Cold Spring Commercial GroupThe Commercial Group offers a vast array of granite and limestone products to commercial architects, contractors, owner/developers, installers, regional stone distributors and international markets. It is recognized in the industry for its drafting, project management and value engineering services, as well as its ability to meet the most challenging designs and demanding delivery schedules. • Architectural Building Stone provides cladding, flooring, interior walls, truncated dome pavers, landscape and plaza features, sculptures, and civic and national memorials• Granite Specialties supplies slabs for countertop material, paving in flagstone, split face and tumblestone and retaining walls • DiamondWrightTM provides a wide assortment of diamond-plated tools and blades for stone professionals• Block Sales provides blocks to domestic and international clients• Church Features includes baptismal fonts, altars, accents and features• Industrial Products provides granite linings for chemical resistant applications such as pickling tanks and surface plates.Several years ago, Cold Spring Granite undertook a major shift in production methodology to embrace a process called “Kaizen & Lean manufacturing”. A humbling experience, it allowed us to focus on eliminating waste in our processes – from office to plant environments. With the help of our internal Quality Plus program, we set continuous goals and empower our employees to make it happen with innovation and flexibility. Today, the direction Cold Spring Granite has taken has lead to fantastic opportunities for our customers. Excellent internal support, streamlined drafting and design, and dramatically reduced manufacturing lead times. In fact, we proudly share that 98% of our granite products are delivered on the date that our customers request it - well above foreign and domestic industry standards.The company's list of notable projects include buildings in every major city throughout North America, many landmark projects in cities overseas, some of the most prestigious private estate memorials in the country, and national memorials such as the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial and the Korean War Memorial in Washington D.C.