# Fox Marble Holdings Installation of CNC machine and block pump machine

- Link: https://www.directorstalkinterviews.com/fox-marble-holdings-installation-cnc-machine-block-pump-machine/412749321
- Published: 2018-04-16T07:59:38+01:00
- Author: Giles Arbor

**Fox Marble Holdings Plc** (LON:FOX), the AIM listed company focused on marble 
quarrying and finishing in Kosovo and the Balkans region, has today announced that
it has installed a new state-of-the-art Computer Numerical Control (“CNC”) machine
and a block vacuum pump machine in the Company’s processing factory in Pristine,
Kosovo. These additions to the new marble processing factory will provide additional
capacity to meet increased order flow and improve margins.

The brand new, CNC machine is capable of automatically processing many varied shapes
of material from slabs and small blocks, including 1,500 square metres of marble
tiles per day. The machine is fully operational and has just manufactured the Company’s
first order in which the whole process has been completed in house for “cut-to-size”
tiles. Currently the only one of its kind throughout the Balkans and Greece, the
CNC machine has been supplied by Gravellona Macchine Marmo, one of the leading manufacturers
of cutting and polishing machinery based in Northern Italy.

In addition, Fox Marble has just completed the installation of a block vacuum pump
machine, which is a more cost-effective way of adding to the inventory of marble
blocks eligible for sale. This machine allows resin to be absorbed by blocks that
have micro-cracks or fractures in them. As a result, the machine will improve the
yield achievable from the quarries and increase the pricing of blocks which would
otherwise have been considered lower quality.

> **Chris Gilbert, CEO of Fox Marble Holdings Plc, commented:** “Our fully operational
> factory now has the additional capability to process material-to-order at speed.
> We are confident that the cost effectiveness, flexibility and improved sophistication
> in our processing, delivered by this machinery, will impact positively on margins
> in the current year.
> The installation of this new machinery also allows us to more effectively access
> the local market for tiles and “cut-to-size” orders, as well as servicing our 
> international customers.”

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