Petrillo Stone Corporation

Introduction: Petrillo Stone Corporation, founded in 1907, is a third-generation family-owned stone company in Mount Vernon, New York. They perform high-quality fabrication and installation of exterior and interior stone. The company imports stone from around the world and works it at their headquarters in New York. Petrillo Stone combines new technologies with traditional artisan stone working techniques to complete historic projects. All fabrication is performed on-site in the company's state-of-the-art facility where almost forgotten art forms merge with cutting edge technology: Wireless control overhead cranes with up to 20-ton capacity hoist the immense slabs. Preliminary designs are sketched out through AutoCAD and other software applications. Petrillo workers use digital photography to generate customized blueprints. Computer numeric control (CNC) machinery equipped with diamond saws hews the slabs. The stone is then worked on, sometimes sandblasted, other times sanded or honed, sometimes planed by 80-year-old machines then polished to a sheen. A highly skilled, international team of artisans achieve the finishes, and painstakingly cut and chisel until every inch has attained the desired peak of perfection.