How is ParkStone Eco-Friendly?
We practice environmentally conscience methods to produce and sell our stone. We bought and recycled an old logging truck shop in Union into our factory and warehouse using energy saving products (still a work in progress). We re-use our boxes and padding materials, encouraging customers to return materials when finished. A percentage of the cement in our proprietary mix is replaced with fire-ash, a bi-product of the coal industry which is usually sent to the landfill. It is a great additive to the manufactured product resulting in greater strength when cured, better pigment absorption, sharper detail, more resistant to chemical attacks and less likely to crack. Fly ash was first used in the US in 1929 for the Hoover Dam. Using fly ash conserves energy by reducing the demand for typical pavement materials such as lime, cement and crushed stone, which take energy to produce. Each ton of fly ash used to replace a ton of cement, for example, saves the equivalent of nearly one barrel of im
