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of the products (i.e., either by the integrated producer Cambria, a stand-alone fabricator, or
directly by an end user). As such, staff calculates that the 18 fabricators (one integrated
producer and 17 independent fabricators) included the Commission's dataset account for an
estimated 19 percent of total fabrication of domestically manufactured quartz surface products
and an estimated *** percent of total fabrication of foreign manufactured quartz surface
products imported into the United States.
Table III-1 lists U.S. producers of quartz surface products, their production locations,
positions on the petition, and shares of slab production and fabrication production.
(…continued)
indicated that its current capacity is ***, but it is currently manufacturing approximately ***. Company
officials project *** employees for 2019. Email message from ***, March 20, 2019.
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The respondents representing select independent fabricators claimed the data gathered by the
Commission on fabricators in the final phase of these investigations cover less than 1 percent of the
total domestic fabrication. Hearing transcript, p. 238 (Perry). Staff notes that their calculation appears
to be based on a count of firms and not a measure of production or capacity.
III-3