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In late 1989, during a routine call on a key customer, Keith Carpenter learned that they were struggling to find a wood-fired stone hearth or ‘brick oven’ that could stand up to the rigors of the American commercial kitchen.

The idea of building a wood-fired oven suited to the rigors of a modern American kitchen intrigued him and led him to contact Harry Hegarty, bulder of large scale, high temperature ceramic incinerators for the forest products industry for 17 years. This was to be an eventful meeting.

In April 1990 Keith and Harry founded Wood Stone and were soon revolutionizing stone hearth cooking.

In 1995 we introduced gas-fueled and gas-assist stone hearth ovens, with many different configurations to meet different production requirements. Wood Stone gas-fired ovens are carefully designed to be responsive to the demanding needs of high production cook lines. Now customers know they can get “wood-fired flavor” from a gas-fired oven!

In 2007, Wood Stone expanded our manufacturing capacity and capabilities. The project included a new 57,500 foot manufacturing facility, a new Research and Development laboratory and a state of the art integrated metal fabrication system that is used to produce our products. Wood Stone Metal Works was introduced in 2010 to offer design, fabrication and sheet metal solutions.

In 2011, After 20 years, Keith and Harry are starting to take a few more Mondays and Fridays off. They are moving into positions that allow them more free time: Keith as CEO and Chief Story Teller and Harry as COO and Chief Tinkerer. As they do this the new leadership team at Wood Stone will step forward and take on the day to day management of Wood Stone. As Keith and Harry were always equal co-Presidents, they have knighted two new equal presidents: Kurt Eickmeyer will be President of Sales and Marketing, and Wade Bobb will be President of Engineering, Manufacturing and IT.

Wood Stone’s product line has grown over the years and now, in addition to several types of stone hearth ovens, also includes rotisseries, charbroilers, planchas and tandoor ovens in both solid fuel and gas fuel types. Visit the Wood Stone’s Commercial Product Catalog for information on specific commercial product offerings.

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