Online Network for Hardscape Stone Goes Live
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — StoneLoads, an online network for natural stone used in hardscapes and other applications, is now operating nationwide.
In development for more than a year, StoneLoads recently finished a successful beta-testing phase and is now ready to add to its user roster of buyers and sellers from coast to coast.
By using the platform at stoneloads.com, natural-stone quarries and fabricators across the United States can list full truckloads of product to be purchased by landscape supply yards nationwide.
“One of the biggest challenges facing the natural stone industry for years is a lack of transparency with regards to product availability,” said StoneLoads CEO Patrick Wells. “StoneLoads provides that remedy. Now quarries and fabricators can list their products online for a national audience of landscape supply yards that are hunting for those exact materials.”
The online marketplace allows transactions with full truckloads of stone in a 24/7 experience. Buyers can view images of a material in a load, along with real-time updates of product costs. Sellers can receive payments within 24 hours of the pickup of a load.
The network is a product of Wells’ day-to-day work in the stone trade as CEO of Majestic Stone, a hardscape-stone quarrier and producer in Dayton, Tenn.
“Our goal at StoneLoads is to promote additional business successes across the entire natural-stone industry by creating a space where professionals on both sides of the transaction process can gain product clarity,” said Wells. “As a quarry and fabrication CEO myself, I decided to build StoneLoads because I knew firsthand that our industry needed this.
“I’m confident it will yield wins for natural stone businesses of all sizes everywhere in the continental United States.”
To learn more about StoneLoads, go to StoneLoads.com.
