The Science Behind Beautiful Surfaces.

Union Carbide founds Marble Care to meet industry needs for consistent quality restoration services and stone care products. 

Union Carbide Marble Care introduces its proprietary INTERCARE stone cleaner—a non-acidic, stone-safe cleaner capable of neutralizing acid spills and removing staining oils for home and commercial use.

Marble Care is spun off as MARBLELIFE, an independent business under the leadership of Ed Williams, the largest franchise operator and proven restoration technique developer. 

MARBLELIFE expands throughout North America.

MARBLELIFE begins restoring granite.

MARBLELIFE rolls out its proprietary maintenance programs including MARBLELIFE’s no-more-restorations guarantee.

MARBLELIFE launches M.L. Distribution to facilitate distribution of specialty stone cleaners formulated to address each stone cleaning challenge, recognizing that inappropriate cleaners were a major contributor to stone damage. 

MARBLELIFE introduces Interlok systems to enhance slate, flagstone, and flamed granite color and sheen. 

MARBLELIFE establishes their Road-Crew capable of servicing hotel and commercial maintenance accounts with monthly service anywhere across America.

The ENDURACRETE division was launched, focusing on concrete polishing and finishes. Initially developed to reduce warehouse dusting, today polished concrete is recognized for its superior indoor air quality, enhancing lighting efficiency, beauty, and versatility—making it the fastest-growing building floor surface in new buildings. 

MARBLELIFE achieved key maintenance milestones—1-year maintenance without need of marble restoration on a high-traffic floor with over half a million in sales within a single market with this technology. 

MARBLELIFE opens the first ENDURACRETE design center in Raleigh, North Carolina, as concrete finishes become designer-interesting. This extended MARBLELIFE's core competencies in grinding and polishing sciences from marble to stone to concrete. 

MARBLELIFE-GROUTMASTER and MARBLELIFE COLORSEAL are introduced, providing a permanent solution to stained grout—extending MARBLELIFE's hard surface reach once again from stone to concrete and now to ceramic with adoption of unique coating technologies. 

MARBLELIFE launches dry-grind technology for non-granite surfaces, reducing water usage in the restoration process by more than 80%. 

MARBLELIFE Maintenance without restoration achieves 5 years. 

MARBLELIFE launches CLEANShield, the first etch-resistant treatment for marble counters, vanities, and tables—offering instant cure and adjustable finish from matte to high gloss. 

MARBLELIFE introduces the first bi-directional interactive retail display, allowing customers seeking stone care solutions to interact with a MARBLELIFE expert directly from the retail aisle, ensuring the right answer when they need it—now. 

MARBLELIFE opens its first office in the Middle East with MARBLELIFE GULF in Dubai, which quickly becomes the largest single MARBLELIFE operation in the world, driven by the copious quantity of marble used in this hot climate.

MARBLELIFE surpasses 10 years of maintenance without need for restoration. 

MARBLELIFE introduces VinylGuard, a proprietary vinyl treatment designed to break the repeated costly process of waxing, stripping, and buffing with a single engineered coating designed to provide a glossy, durable, anti-slip treatment that saves our clients 30% of their floor care costs annually. 

MARBLELIFE opens its first office in Africa with the launch of its South African office, which would go on to become Franchise-of-the-Year in 2023.

MARBLELIFE achieves 15 years with both marble and granite high-traffic floors.

MARBLELIFE introduces a slew of new services: TILELOK, MARBLELIFE-GROUTMASTER's solution for worn ceramic tile restoration is introduced. VINYLGUARD is introduced as an alternative for wax, resulting in a no-buff, no-scuff, cost-cutting vinyl floor treatment. VINYLGUARD technology is combined with MARBLELIFE know-how to chemically restore burned vinyl floors to brand new in less than 8 hours without need for removal, extending MARBLELIFE's know-how to vinyl restoration. POLAR VORTEX is launched as a NON-VOC/NO-SOLVENT universal stripping technology with successful field demonstrations on flamed granite in 2023. These convert stripping into a predictable service regardless of the depth of coatings to be removed.

MARBLELIFE rolls out generation 6 polishing technology, accelerating polishing times by over 40%, while increasing ease-of-use on floors and vertical surfaces.

MARBLELIFE Smart Floor Machine reaches key milestones with remote communications. 

MARBLELIFE achieves 20 years of maintenance without restoration on a high-traffic hotel floor, while others are still requiring mandatory restoration after 2 years. MARBLELIFE has proven scientific mastery on stone surfaces.  

MARBLELIFE Smart Floor Machine concept is introduced, enabling diamond-floor interactions to be monitored, with remote communication achieved in 2023, en route to a machine that signals optimal diamond change times. 

MARBLELIFE achieved its first ground floor with internally engineered and produced diamonds. 

MARBLELIFE identified a new class of concrete sealers enabling dramatic improvements in anti-spalling performance and reducing seal failures in the field—opening a new potential market for MARBLELIFE Franchisees, with concrete gel seal technology based system chemistry confirmed.

MARBLELIFE continued studies into predictable coating removals and surface removal technology with Laser Therapy for Stone and Laser Therapy for Metal expected to enable offices to accelerate ultimate floor generation and eliminate previous safety issues around metal restoration systemization.