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Successful sites start here™ Welcome to Catalog No. 9. After 25 years of running this business, you’d think I’d be better at figuring out what trends will affect us. The newest is that contractors are using more and more materials built off-site. It makes perfect sense – better quality control, better efficiency, less material waste, and less on-site coordination. So how does that affect us? When we expanded into metals in 2017, we expected we’d make planters similar to those that we do in FRP and GFRC. What we didn’t realize was that designers had been detailing large metal planters and planting areas (both on-grade and on-structure) that had traditionally been built in the field. Suddenly, our fastest-growing business is fabricating elements for these large projects! It’s keeping our Customworks team busy. You’ll find our newly created Kitsap Collection Modular Retaining Walls on page 37 – our first standard product to address this trend. We’re continually striving to be your best partner. Tournesol Siteworks recently engaged an outside consultancy to interview specifiers and contractors to find out A) what we do well, and B) what we can do better. It was gratifying to hear that we’re considered the clear leader in commercial pots & planters. The fact that our quality is considered superior, our company is easy to do business with, and our prices are fair, was great to hear – so far, so good! But we’re not perfect – we also heard that we need to continue to improve our leadtimes (one of our key focus points in the coming year), and that we should be introducing more site furniture designs. Expect to see improvements on both fronts. We’re listening. As a company, we have one goal above all else – that each and every project we participate in is a success. Whether standard planters on a multi-family project or a massive Customworks project, your success is paramount. Sometimes, and it happens to everyone, things go wrong. Whether Tournesol’s responsibility, or a mistake on the customers’ part, we now have an answer. Our field assistance team (the same one that installs our fountains) can be dispatched to the site and make it right. This isn’t always easy (our team travels a lot!), but it’s an important part of our core set of values. We believe in doing what we say we’re going to do – and we say that your project will be a success! Thanks for being part of our story – we’re now going on our 41st year! Above TWIG Benches, Lightweight GFRC in Acid Etch Texture in White. California Center, Pleasanton, CA. Christopher Lyon, President Cover Downtown Round Planters and Wilshire Square Planters with CWM Modular Container Irrigation. Hotel Paseo, Palm Desert, CA. Design: RGA Landscape Architects. Back Cover Wilshire Weathering Steel Planters and Custom Laser-Cut Screens. Metro Crossing, Fremont, CA. Design: Toll Brothers with Gates + Associates. Successful sites start here... Tournesol Siteworks, founded in 1979 in Northern California as a manufacturer of self-watering planters, has become one of the Metal Processing larger producers of site furnishings in the U.S. Our four manufacturing facilities work in fiberglass, lightweight concrete, wood, metals, Tournesol Siteworks has a wide range of and plastic. We work with designers and contractors doing multi-family residential, commercial, hospitality, retail, streetscape and metal fabrication capabilities, including institutional projects nationwide. Local sales and support teams ensure that your project turns out the way you want it to! laser cutting, bending, shaping, and cutting. Whether starting with metal Lightweight Concrete castings, pipe, sheet metal or strap, the Alkaline-r te metal fabrication process goes through for tensioning rebar to allow us to cast many labor-intensive steps. Fixturing concrete in ½”- ¾” thicknesses for most and years of welding experience ensures site furnishing applications. The weight quality and consistency in production. Final makes it easy to ship, handle and place on surface preparation (grinding, blasting) site, yet strong enough to hold up to high occurs prior t rich c. Similar t rglass, the process primer and epoxy powdercoat for optimal uses a concentric system to spray concrete rust protection. Our team also works in into purpose built forms. After casting, the weathering steel, allowing for a whole new surface is patched and treated to create s. many di er FRP Fiberglass Pot & Planter Fabrication Tournesol Siteworks wor rglass for Wood Fabrication many of its pots and planters. We typically Whether in furnishings, planters, or as cast by hand or with a pneumatic chopper decking and construction material, gun, using forms created in our dedicated Tournesol Siteworks knows wood. Our mold shops. Once cast, the surface is Boulevard ther wood is a prepped for painting by sanding and domestically grown and treated 25-year t r. Each pot is alternative to South American hardwoods, damp-proofed with asphaltic sealant, then and is available in many of our products. painted with industrial-grade acrylic epoxy. Our wood shop in Port Orchard works The labor-intensive process results in a Douglas Fir, Red Cedar, Ipe, Tigerwood, uniform, consistent qualit and a popular milk-bottle based recycled incredibly versatile. We wrote the book on plastic lumber into our benches, tables, making commercial quality planters that receptacles and even bollards. Custom won’t bow or war l. projects are no strangers, either! ... and here. Union City, CA Ciudad Juarez, The center of our nervous system is in Chihuahua, MX Northern California, where we’ve been Our Mexican maquiladora is o˛cially working since 1979. Union City (midway Tournesol Siteworks S.A. de C.V., and is a between Oakland and San Jose on Mexican entity wholly owned by Tournesol the eastern side of the San Francisco Siteworks. Lightweight concrete has been bay) is where we’ve called home since the focus here since it was started by acquiring a 45,000 sf building in 2016. Stonewear in 2005, but we also cast FRP Our management team, accounting, and ÿberglass as well. When we expanded part of our sales and engineering teams production, we moved into a 65,000 SF are located here. We prep and paint FRP facility located in one of the earlier (and here, as well as assemble our self-watering more central) industrial parks in Ciudad container systems, pedestals and living Juarez. We usually employ about 87 at this wall systems. Approximately half of our location, including a dedicated tooling employees work out of this facility. shop, quality, GFRC casting and prep, and FRP casting and prep. Port Orchard, WA Our Port Orchard facility’s capabilities in El Paso, TX metal forming and wood processing ÿt The U.S. half of our TexMex connection right in with the needs of our customers. is based about three miles as the crow In addition to the site furnishing products ˜ies fr om the Mexican border, along US we’re now producing pots and planters I-10. We receive product cast over the in weathering steel at this plant. With border in our Ciudad Juarez maquiladora, capabilities including laser cutting, bending prepping, painting, and assembling as (sheet, strap and rod), lathe cutting, and required. This facility processes all our GFRC of course welding, grinding and ÿnishing, lightweight concrete products (including we have standard and custom capabilities fountains) as well as our ÿberglass. El Paso that mesh seamlessly with the rest of serves as a convenient shipping point for our products. We employ around 40 at orders heading east. We currently have this facility, including some sales, project 38 employees at this facility, in a 20,000 sf management, and engineering sta˝ along facility on a 5-acre lot. with the local production team. The Tournesol Story Customworks by Tournesol established. Tournesol acquires FairWeather. Site-specific projects booming. Purchase gives Tournesol a total of four manufacturing plants. Tournesol acquires Stonewear. All concrete casting moved to El Paso Table of Contents facility. In 24 months, employment at the Tournesol acquires Root Solutions line two facilities increases over 300%. from Vespro. Added to drainage solutions category. Tournesol introduces Boulevard Wood. One of the first alternatives to South American hardwoods, Boulevard’s Pots & Planters 12 Tournesol Partners with Street & thermally-modified wood revolutionizes Gallery 14 Data 38 Garden. the industry. Brisbane, Australia based furniture company agrees to license their site furnishing designs to Tournesol Siteworks. Planter Technology becomes Tournesol Site Furnishings Siteworks. 44 Gallery 46 Data 64 Decorative products outpace irrigation products. Company partners with Elmich Stonewear moves and expands. from Singapore and begins greenwall Establishes plants in both El Paso, TX, and product lines. Greenwalls Ciudad Juarez in Mexico. Company is one 72 Gallery 74 Data 78 of the smallest companies to create its own maquiladora plant. Planter Technology Moves from Fountains Vespro Founded in San Rafael CA. Silicon Valley. Begins production in the 82 Gallery 84 Data 90 Manufactures root barrier and drainage manufacturing-friendly city of Hayward, products for the commercial landscape CA. marketplace. Deck & Paver Products 94 Planter Technology creates first self- Gallery 96 Data 100 watering insert. Planter Technology Purchased by Company enters exterior landscape Chrisopher Lyon. market, expansion and innovation Ownership group led by Christopher Lyon continues. buys company, adds planter liners to Root Control & Drainage Products product lines. 102 Gallery 104 Data 106 Magnalite becomes Stonewear. Company moves to Carson City, NV. Makes lightweight concrete pots, trash receptacles, column covers, and turnkey fountains. FairWeather Founded. Materials & Finishes 109 Tacoma, WA, company creates trash receptacles and benches in powder-coated All images and information © Tournesol Siteworks 2020. steel and wood. + Additional copies of this catalog are available for download at https://www.tournesol.com/resource.