Since 1989 Sandmasters Equipment & Machinery, Inc has been one of the largest stocking distributors in the southeastern United States for Empire abrasive equipment products. Sandmasters is also a stocking distributor of Barton Mines (garnet), Potters Industries (glass beads), Reed Minerals (coal slag), Armex (backing soda), DuPont (starblast and staurolite), Ervin Industries (steel shot and steel grit), plastic media and aluminum oxide