52 July 2015 - Business View Caribbean
Micro Milling Ltd.
Family company lays the foundation for success
Robert de Verteuil is one of the Directors at Micro
Milling Ltd along with his father, Maurice and brother,
Gregory. Micro Milling Ltd is a Trinidad-based, family-
run company that produces sand/cement blends
for the construction, home building, and contracting
industries. Micro Milling grew out of a sand process-
ing venture that de Verteuil’s father founded in 1974.
At the time, the original company produced different
grades of sand that were used for some oil field appli-
cations, water filtration, or were sold to other compa-
nies that would use the raw sand for their own blend-
ing purposes. In addition, before coal slag became a
more preferred product, the company’s sand was also
used for sand-blasting rust off of ships and oil rigs.
De Verteuil recounts Micro Milling’s evolution to what
the company has become today: “We had a lot of ex-
pertise when it came to sand and sand sizing, and
we had been speaking with some European experts
about blending – we’d never done blending, before.
We started doing some testing of blending sand and
cement together with some additives, and that’s how
