Trade & Commerce
Slab Yard
A slab yard is where a stone company keeps its slabs, standing on edge in A-frames or racks and grouped by bundle, and where buyers come to see and choose them. Distributors, importers and fabricators run slab yards, and quarries and plants run block yards as well. A well-run yard knows where every slab stands, which ones are held and which bundle each belongs to.
Buyers often visit the yard to pick the exact slabs for a job, because two slabs of the same stone can look very different. Slabs stay in their bundles and in cutting order, so a buyer who needs a bookmatch or several matching slabs takes them from the same bundle.
The hard part is knowing what is where. Slabs move between racks, are held for one customer and sold to another, or come back as remnants after a job. A yard that runs on paper or memory loses time looking for slabs, and sometimes sells the same slab twice.
In Noria Strata
Noria Strata puts your yard on a map, with zones, rows and racks, and every block and bundle in its place. One scan of the label records every move.