There are a number of companies that produce specialised tools for the natural stone industry. The  technology and design especially of air driven hand tools has revolutionised the capability of the stone mason to produce beautiful individual hand produced monuments at reasonable prices.

The biggest technical advances have been made in this sector of machinery for the natural stone industry. The investment of efficient labour saving machinery has changed the industry more in the last ten years than any other time in their history. The use of water cutting machinery gives a quality and accuracy in a fracture of the time necessary in the past. Computer controlled cutting and polishing machines have given the industry a vast mass production capacity with high quality. 

Transport
Over the last fifteen years the transport of heavy natural stone products has been made easier by the design of new cutting edge designed gantries, cranes, fork lifts and specialised equipment for moving material in the workshop or on site, even up stairs. The transport of natural stone requires specialised contractors especially in the transportation of slabs.