Fine Line Pacific - submitted by Sarah Stanhope, Account Manager

A work surface. A food prep area. A centerpiece for social gatherings. The uses for countertops are only limited by your imagination and Fine Line Pacific is committed to bringing these ideas to life. We will enrich your home with the highest quality surfaces for living, coupled with the best value and service in the industry.

What separates Fine Line Pacific from other countertop fabricators?  We believe in customer service and we stand behind our work. If something is ever wrong, we make it right. It’s that simple.  You can rest assured we have the fabrication knowledge and skill to create the countertops you have envisioned.

Our Kent facility houses a 5,000 sq ft showroom (the largest in the NW), featuring plenty of displays and full size slabs of material/sink in every color we stock.  Our stock includes 3cm Artisan Stone.  With 24 varying colors there is sure to be one just right for your kitchen.  If a hard surface with no maintenance is what your are looking for, 3cm Cambria is the option for you.  It as well has a lifetime warranty and is the only quartz countertop manufactured in the USA.

In addition to natural stone surfaces we also offer hardwoods through our Heritage Wood line.  These domestic, exotic, and reclaimed woods offer an excellent compliment to Artisan Stone or Cambria Quartz.  Finally our hard surface department is rounded off by our partnership with Kohler Sinks and Faucets.  We are the first fabricator partnership with Kohler and look forward to developing a long partnership.

As far as affiliations are concerned, our relationship with Tenhulzen Remodeling is a strong one.  Through that partnership a mutual understanding of customer expectations and project logistics have been developed.  Fore that reason projects flow with ease from design to completion.

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Tom Risinger, owner, says that the Fine Line Pacific facility allows the company to stock anything that sells, and that the product mix now changes freely when one product experiences more interest than others.  In natural stone, for instance, the company stocks almost exclusively granite because it's currently popular, but it has the capability to add other types of stone at any moment.

In addition to material storage, the facility also provides the company with a sprawling 5,000 sq ft showroom, complete with model kitchens and a quartz palette wall. Most notably, the showroom also showcases full slabs of all of the Artisan natural stone colors that are in-stock, providing one more eye-catching feature for customers.

"One of the biggest reasons we've grown the way we have over the past few years is because we've just tried to become more and more digital the entire time, regardless of whether that was related to the equipment and production, or even just processing paperwork," he says. "That's really the key to our efficiency: the whole system is digital."  That means record-keeping, order processing and other vital administrative tasks are all done electronically to whatever extent possible. And in today's stone industry, having a completely digital system means having plenty to tech-heavy production equipment as well.

The facility has at least one feature that would easily make it the envy of fabrication shops almost everywhere, according to Nick: a set of six overhead cranes that served the metal-goods fabrication business that previously occupied the building. Two cranes can lift 22 tons each, and the other four can handle 15 tons each.  "It's obviously pretty unique for a fabricator to have that capability in material handling," says Nick. "Not many people have that type of equipment, and it benefits us both in terms of efficiency and safety. The cranes allow us to drive the trucks into the building, unload them, and drive right back out."

With the increased efficiency created through the digital production system, combined with the overhead cranes and the added space in the new facility, the company is now able to keep a staggering amount of raw material in stock.  The best plus of using Fine Line is the benefits of choice for the client.  A homeowner can pick out their favorite slab of stone and the exact cut out location for their countertop.