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accessories, water features, bird baths, steel cut stone pool coping, Clarens stone pool pattern and mould shop. In addition, we try and
street furniture. coping. manufacture specific items in ways that nobody
Architectural: reconstituted sandstone, else is doing, for example our paving is pressed
columns, fireplace surrounds, window Success, longevity and future plans using very high pressure hydraulic machinery,
surrounds, masonry and cladding, The company’s mission has always been to as opposed to being vibrated and/or cast. This
architectural mouldings, GRC mouldings provide quality products at the right price, process increases the strength and extends the
and castings. and this has been instrumental in its success life span of our products.”
Outdoor: firepits, braai surrounds, patio and longevity. Edwards says that future plans include the
tables and chairs, concrete wash troughs. MD William Edwards says: “We operate expansion of the company’s Glass Reinforced
Glass Reinforced Concrete (GRC) and fiber in a relatively small market and if you don’t Concrete (GRC) division, as he feels they have
cement: mouldings, cladding, barge boards, produce quality products, you get found only touched on the potential of this process.
wall coping, gutters and downpipes, cement out very quickly. We also try to be flexible He says they would also like to improve on
pillar caps, fiber cement caps and bases. and customise products for the client’s capability in the Western Cape so that they can
Pool coping: pool coping and surrounds, specific environment using our in-house better service their clients in that area. n

1950s 1975 1975 2005 2005 present
Ralph De La Bruyere becomes MD following Stafford’s retirement Wilson Cement Industries under John Edwards WilsonStone under William Edwards
1995 2008 2012

Company GRC (glass Fiber
name reinforced cement
changes to concrete) division
WilsonStone division started
started

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