Dimensi Timal Sdn Bhd (DTSB) signed a 50-year concession agreement with the Kelantan Darul Naim state government for the exclusive rights to undertake quarrying activities in Jedok, Tanah Merah, Kelantan.

The concession area of approximately 268 acres is one kilometre south of the East-West Highway and has an estimated reserve of 600 million cubic metres (cu m), or 1.5 billion metric tones of monolithic mother rock.

DTSB officially launched its operation in September 2005 with the debut of its ‘Jeli Blunero’ series of dimensional granite at the International Exposition of Dimension Stone and Machinery held in Verona, Italy. Of export grade, Jeli Blunero’s coarse-grained texture with a bluish black tonality and exceptional consistency in colour and pattern bears many similarities with Italy’s ‘Serrizo’.

Site-clearing, access roads and platforms were substantially completed at the end of 2005 to facilitate actual quarrying activities. Production progressed as planned in tandem with enquiries from interested major industry players from Italy, China and Indonesia, in addition to local prospects.