TOP 10 TILE CONTRACTORS AND SUPPLIERS
Turner Ceramic Tile aspires to perfection
to achieve excellence in supporting general
contractors with exceptional projects
Design and Construction Report special feature
Kansas City based Turner Ceramic
Tile has a long history of supporting
general contractors in their efforts to
deliver exceptional projects. Today
the company works on projects
across a wide range of niches and
scours the globe to find the best so-
lution to meet each project’s specific
demands. Josh Turner, vice president,
started in the family business work-
ing for his father (Allen) while in high
school, learning the business from
the ground up, working at tasks that
ranged from delivering product to
grouting. At the time, the company
worked primarily supporting apart-
ment project construction through a
team of six.
By 2001, the company had grown
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and expanded into a variety of com-
mercial efforts. Understanding the
value of a family business, the com-
pany’s growth has included the addi-
tion of other members of the family,
as well as trusted employees who,
Turner says, over time have come to
be like family. The staff now num-
bers 60 and the company’s range of
services includes panel tilting instal-
lation, cut to size granite, project
value engineering, design, and floor
prep. Working with commercial builders
and developers, designers and archi-
tects, and on projects ranging from
senior living to churches, restau-
rants, hotels and apartments, the
company’s five estimators each spe-
cialize in unique niches. This allows
them to understand the nuances of
each project type, and to be efficient
in finding solutions to meet their
client’s needs.
Turner says part of the company’s
success is its openness. “Despite
this niche approach, we don’t go into
a project with blinders on. We are al-
ways working towards the goal of
the owners, whether it is focused on
budget, schedule or design issues.
Our focused expertise means our
team of professional are fluent in the
wide range of solutions and options
available to allow the client the great-
est access to options.”
“We are fortune enough to have
some of the most talented employ-
ees in the industry,” he says. “The
crews are challenged every day. It
might be a design that takes the
most patient hand and precise instal-
lation or a project that requires a
team of installers and finishers to