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Table III-16
Slab-form quartz surface products: U.S. slab producers’ employment related data relating to slab
operations, 2015-17, January to September 2017, and January to September 2018
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Table III-17 shows U.S. slab producers’ and independent fabricators’ employment-
related data relating to fabrication activities. U.S. fabricators’ employment measured by
production and related workers (“PRWs”) 23 increased by *** percent from 2015 to 2017, 24 U.S.
fabricators’ total hours worked increased by *** percent from 2015 to 2017. U.S. producers’
hourly wages increased by *** percent from 2015 to 2017.
Unit labor costs increased overall by *** percent from 2015 to 2017. Wages paid, hourly
wages, and productivity were all higher in the 2018 interim period (January-September)
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***. *** U.S. producer questionnaire response, sections II-19a and II-22.
At the Commission’s hearing, U.S. fabricator Bedrock Quartz indicated that “fabricators are a much
larger part of the industry than U.S. slab producers. Various sampling and NSI estimates show at least
10,000 fabricators, and likely over 15,000, in a $17 billion industry. Employment is well over 100,000.”
Hearing transcript, p.192 (Jorgensen).
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