Granicor

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GRANICOR'S history, or how the willpower of three generations created a flourishing international enterprise. GRANICOR INC. is a family-run company that owns and manages granite quarries and factories in North America . Initially called National Granite, GRANICOR INC. was founded by an energetic stone mason named Eugene Robitaille, who had worked with stone on the construction of a number of churches and public buildings. The Lac St-Jean area, in the province of Quebec, was experiencing a booming economy as the aluminum and paper industries were growing at a rapid rate, thus attracting more people to its towns and creating demand for more stone buildings. The abundant granite resources of that region and the increasing work opportunities for Eugene Robitaille were good reasons for him to move to the area where he raised his family and started his business in 1922. The Alma plant, in Lac-Saint-Jean, was constructed at the edge of a quarry that yielded a black granite of excellent quality which soon caught the attention of the Americans. This was how the company started, little by little, to export some of the world's most beautiful granites. Despite the fire that completely destroyed the plant in 1947 and the difficult period during and after the war, Eugene continued to believe in the potential of the granite industry left no stone unturned in order to secure his business future...

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