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A countertop slab supplier sells you the stone. It does not template, cut or install it, and it will not quote you a finished kitchen. That is the single most common surprise for homeowners in Arizona: you walk into a slab yard expecting a price for your countertops and get handed a business card for a fabricator instead.
This page lists the slab yards, stone distributors and surface showrooms across Arizona, grouped by city, kept separate from the contractors you hire to do the work. Businesses that run their own slab yard and also fabricate appear here and on the contractor pages.
Most of the suppliers are in the Phoenix area, with smaller yards in Tucson, Prescott, Lake Havasu City and Yuma. Bolder Image Stone (5.0 from 1,779 reviews) and Aracruz RE (4.9 from 562 reviews) in Phoenix sell to homeowners and the trade from the same floor. MSI Phoenix, Cosentino Center Phoenix and Wilsonart's Tempe distribution center sell mainly or only to fabricators and other professionals.
Before you buy a slab, line up the fabricator. Some shops only cut stone from their own yard or their preferred distributors, and some price customer-supplied material differently. The fabricator also tells you how many slabs the job needs once the layout is drawn, which is the number you should buy.
Ask the yard whether you can hold a slab, how long the hold lasts, and how the slab gets to your fabricator. Ask whether remnants are sold, since a vanity or a small bar top often fits on a leftover piece at a lower price. Several suppliers here sell remnants, sinks and faucets too.
Often, yes. Bolder Image Stone, Aracruz RE and Marbino Surfaces in Phoenix sell to homeowners as well as the trade, and Arizona Tile locations let you walk the yard and choose your own slab. Some distributors, including Cosentino Center Phoenix and MSI Phoenix, direct homeowners to buy through a fabricator or other professional partner.
A supplier-only yard will not. It sells the slab and you hire a fabricator to template, cut and install it. A few businesses do both, such as Superior Stone and Cabinet in Phoenix, Granite Planet in Tucson and The Granite Boneyard in Mesa.
No. Choose the fabricator first. It decides how many slabs the layout needs, and some fabricators will only work stone from their own yard or set a different price for customer-supplied material.
Cambria runs a sales and distribution center showroom in Avondale, Cosentino has a center for Silestone and Dekton in the Tempe area, and Arista Quartz & Natural Stones distributes its own quartz line from Tempe. Most of these sell through fabricators rather than directly to homeowners.