Companies Having Difficulty Getting Hands On Material Needed To Make Gravestones

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MIAMI (CBSMiami) – During the pandemic we’ve seen shortages of everything from cars to insubstantial towels. Now companies are having trouble getting their hands connected the worldly needed to marque gravestones.

Supreme Memorials successful Brooklyn, New York, has been creating headstones for 70 years. Co-owner Michael Cassara said it would instrumentality astir 3 months to customize a chromatic earlier the pandemic, present it’s up to six months.

“I don’t deliberation my dada faced thing similar this,” Cassara said.

According to Cassara, determination is simply a existent shortage of rubber stencil. It is utilized to make the template that’s aboriginal sandblasted into the stone.

“One of the large suppliers conscionable said they’re closing their full part of making it. And so, this is gonna beryllium a occupation that’s gonna beryllium going forward,” helium said.

Many companies are besides having occupation getting the granite needed for headstones. The aforesaid idiosyncratic and trucking shortages impacting each sections of the system are slowing down the transportation of granite.

Schultz Monument Company successful Tennessee is besides having occupation getting bronze markers, and the delays often vary.

“The accusation that we’re getting from our suppliers sometimes is not ever accurate, truthful past erstwhile I walk that connected to my customer, you know, my lawsuit rightfully gets frustrated,” said Richard Schultz.

Adding to the challenges, the outgo of materials is besides connected the rise. Cassara said these issues aren’t going to extremity anytime soon.

“I spot it going into the summertime of adjacent year,” helium said.

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And those delays are being felt by grieving families trying to accidental goodbye to a loved one.