The factory behind the cabinets

Dawson Stone and Cabinet manufactures cabinetry and quartz countertops at two production bases — Malaysia and Thailand — for apartment, student housing, hospitality and senior living projects in the United States. We are the factory — not a trading desk between you and production — and we have been shipping to U.S. jobsites long enough to know where project-scale cabinetry actually fails: schedule drift, colour drift between phases, and packaging that does not survive an ocean crossing.

Where we manufacture

Production runs at our two manufacturing bases — Malaysia and Nong Yai, Nong Yai District, Chon Buri 20190, Thailand. Cabinets are cut, edge-banded, drilled and assembled to order, then packed for export. Countertops are produced to match the same project programme so cabinets and tops arrive together rather than in two uncoordinated shipments.

Our U.S. office is at 3450 E Sweetbay Way, Ontario, CA 91761-392, USA. That is where project schedules, drawings and punch lists are handled in your time zone — you are not waiting on a twelve-hour time difference for an answer about a delivery.

What we build

• Framed cabinet systems — American-style construction for conventional multifamily kitchens and baths.
• Frameless cabinet systems — European-style full-access boxes, in particle board or plywood builds.
• RTA (knock-down) cabinetry — flat-packed for maximum units per container where jobsite assembly is available.
• Quartz countertops — slab and fabricated tops coordinated with the cabinet programme.
• Door styles and finishes — melamine, thermofoil and painted or stained finishes, held consistent across every unit and every phase.

Construction and hardware

The details that decide whether a cabinet programme survives ten years of turnover:

• Soft-close hinges as standard, not as an upgrade line item.
• Dovetail drawer boxes.
• Plywood construction available throughout, with moisture-resistant options for baths and laundry rooms.
• Commercial-grade hardware specified for rental duty cycles rather than single-family use.

Materials and compliance

Panel materials are specified to E1 / E0 and CARB-2 low-emission standards for the U.S. market, and hardware is commercial grade. We are a manufacturer, so we are the ones who can actually produce the paperwork: if your GC, owner or customs broker needs material certificates or test reports, ask us and we will send the documentation for the specification we are producing against. We would rather answer that request with the real document than leave a badge on a website.

How we run a project

• Shop drawings first. Unit layouts, cabinet schedules and countertop templates are agreed before anything is cut.
• One programme, not a pile of orders. Door style, finish and hardware are locked for the whole building so unit 214 matches unit 1.
• Unit-by-unit labelling. Every box is labelled to its unit and location so installers are not re-sorting a container on site.
• Export packaging. Reinforced crates and pallet protection built for ocean freight, then container loading supervised by us.
• Phase releases. Deliveries are scheduled against your construction sequence, not against our convenience.

Who you will talk to

Mark Liu runs the export side of the business and has quoted and shipped these programmes for years.

“Most of the problems I see on a multifamily cabinet job are decided in the first meeting, not on the production line. If the door style is not locked before phase two, phase two will not match phase one. So we push to fix the specification early and then protect it.”
— Mark Liu, Dawson Stone and Cabinet

Where to start

If you are still comparing construction types, read RTA vs assembled cabinets or quartz vs granite for multifamily kitchens. If you know what you need, send us the unit counts and we will quote it.