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Table III‐3 presents important industry events for quartz surface products since January
1, 2017.
Table III-3
Quartz surface products: important industry events, since January 1, 2017
Date
Year Month Company / Item
Action
2017 May Cambria
Reduced the weekly amount production days from seven to five.
Cambria laid off 115 production employees. 2
2017 June Dal-Tile Announced plans to open a second factory in Dickson, Tennessee. 3
2017 July
Wilsonart/
Hanwha
2018 January USA Quartz
Hanwha L&C Corporation and Wilsonart Engineered Surfaces
announced a joint-venture agreement to build a manufacturing facility
in Temple, Texas. 4
USA Quartz LLC purchased land in Jacksonville, Florida to produce
commercial and residential quartz slabs. 5
Dal-Tile announced it was hiring to fill 100 new jobs at the Dickson,
Tennessee Dal-Tile facility. 6
2018 September Dal-Tile
LG Hausys announced plans to install a third production line at its
Adairsville, Georgia, facility. This third line will be operational in
December 2019 and will increase the facility’s annual capacity from
2018 September LG Hausys 700,000 to 1,050,000 square meters. 7
2019 N/A *** ***
2019 N/A *** ***
2019 January USA Quartz
2019 January
2019 February Dal-Tile
American Quartz
Worker Coalition
2019 May Elite Quartz
2019 November
American Quartz
Group Inc.
2019 November Guidoni Group
USA Quartz began production operations at its new slab facility in
Jacksonville, Florida. 8
The American Quartz Worker Coalition was organized and launched
in opposition to Cambria’s case and the imposition of trade restrictions
on imported quartz. 9
Dal-Tile began production operations at its new slab facility in
Dickson, TN. Production is expected to reach peak volume by 2020. 10
Elite Quartz (part of the Hirsch Glass Corporation), previously known
as Spectrum Quartz, announced plans to open a new production
facility in Latta, South Carolina in late 2019. 12
American Quartz Group Inc. began construction of a QSP
manufacturing plant in Barstow, California. 13
Brazilian group Guidoni announced plans to open a new QSP
manufacturing facility in McRae-Helena, Georgia. Production
operations are expected to begin in Q3 2020. 14
2019 December Elite Quartz
In December, MSI announced had reached an agreement to pursue a
joint venture with Elite Quartz. The company will create a
manufacturing facility in Latta, South Carolina, with four production
lines. The first two lines are expected to begin operations in Q1
2020. 15
2020 January *** ***
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