Park Industries was founded in 1953 as Park Tool, a division of the Gran-A-Stone Company in Waite Park, Minnesota. This business manufactured and sold a concrete stone product that was used as a building veneer similar to face brick. Park Tool became Park Industries in 1985 and moved to a 30,000-square-foot facility that remains one of Park s manufacturing plants. The company is a designer and builder of stone fabrication machinery, and one of the largest manufacturers of stone working equipment in North America. Park s customers have more than 5,350 machines in operation in 20-plus countries throughout the world. Park Industries headquarters and two manufacturing facilities are located in St. Cloud, Minn.