Earlier this spring, our associate publisher, Kim Barton, flew down to Minneapolis, Minn., to dig into the history of the family owned quartz manufacturing company, Cambria. (Fun fact: Cambria is owned by members of the Davis family of Minnesota. Patriarch Stanley Davis founded what would become cheese-manufacturing company Davisco Foods International during World War II. Davisco is now part of the Quebec-based Agropur Dairy Cooperative.)
Cambria’s quartz is mined in Northern Ontario and Quebec. All the, scratch- and stain-resistant slabs are produced in Minnesota, before final fabrication for the Canadian market at the company’s Bolton, Ont., facility. Since its launch in 2000, Cambria has yet to retire a pattern, making matching a retrofit project possible years down the road.