Stone Dynamics Inc. has invested more than $200,000 in new equipment to better serve its changing market.

The company fabricates marble, granite and other materials into various shapes, sizes and thicknesses with all types of edge design for countertops and other uses, according to its website.

On Thursday, a computer and numerically controlled shaping edge profiler was delivered to the company on Hollie Drive in the North Bowles Industrial Park, according to company President Bobby Lankford.

The profiler will allow Stone Dynamics to work with larger pieces of granite, marble, engineered stone and other materials, he said.

Using computer-aided design (CAD) drawings and programs, the profiler “will do about anything we want” with materials for countertops, such as shaping, cutting holes and notches, grinding and polishing the edges, he said.

The profiler was ordered from Italy and shipped in a 40-foot container, Lankford said. A crane and special forklift were brought in to unload the 16,000 pounds of pieces at the company’s 26,000-square-foot plant, he said.

The total cost of the equipment, shipping and installation is more than $200,000, he said.

Stone Dynamics has two smaller profilers that it used when it served the furniture industry, Lankford said. As that market waned, Stone started diversifying into residential and commercial markets about four years ago, he said, adding that the company is 10 years old.

Lankford said Stone Dynamics employs about 35 people and hopes to hire more for its plan to expand up the Interstate 77 corridor to Charleston and Huntington, W.Va., in the future.

He added that the company had to let 10 to 15 employees go when its furniture business declined.

“As we’ve changed our business model, diversifying, we’ve been picking up new jobs like installers,” he said, adding that some employees who were let go were brought back and retrained.

The company currently serves an area that spans from here to South Boston, Lynchburg, Harrisonburg, Roanoke and the New River Valley.