Texan Stone was founded in 2006 with the goal to provide wholesale companies in the oil and gas and the industrial business with the finest quality materials, like guar gum, friction reducers, xanthan gum, polymers, shale chemicals, abrasive minerals, and granite. We are a Houston-based company specializes in the international wholesale supply chain of importing and exporting industrial products. Texan Stone imports more than 30 million pounds of abrasive materials per year, making us the fastest growing garnet and staurolite wholesaler in the nation. Our founder, Mani Palani, comes from more than three decades in the stone quarrying business and has taken on the vision his father had of pursuing the international business. Texan Stone started in Houston, and has grown to various operations in India, Ukraine, China, and Middle East.