Tools & resources for stone fabricators

Standards, certification, and research for kitchen and bath professionals.

Stone industry training, standards, and the Accredited Natural Stone Fabricator program.

News, equipment reviews, and fabrication best practices for the stone industry.

The official standard, exposure limits, and control guidance for silica dust.

Our plain-language walkthrough of silica controls for stone shops.

A scannable daily and program-level compliance checklist.

Estimate how many pieces fit on a slab and how much waste to expect.

Estimate a full quote from material, edges, cutouts, seams, and install.

Total square footage, edge length, and backsplash area from your run dimensions.

Estimate what an offcut is worth from your material pricing.

Total finished edge linear feet for edge-profile pricing.

Browse every free fabrication tool in one place.

Plain-language definitions for the terms fabrication shops use every day.

A printable checklist for opening a fabrication shop — planning through compliance.

A printable worksheet for taking measurements on site.

A printable care card to hand customers at install.

The full evaluation framework for choosing shop software.

A 10-point framework you can score demos against.

A decision framework for building your software stack.

Free badges and copy-ready snippets to reference Lithiq from your site or review.