Quality Casework
and Laminate
Commercial casework and in-house laminate / solid surface fabrication. Operated as Laminated Tops of Central Indiana from 1969 through 2026.
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and Countertop Company
Building custom commercial casework in Bloomington since 1969.
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Healthcare. Education. Sports & hospitality. Industrial. Banking.
We build casework, countertops, and surfaces for the people who build Indiana.
A half-century of Indiana craftsmanship
Quality Casework and Laminate traces its roots to 1969, when Laminated Tops of Central Indiana was founded in Bloomington. Bob and Margarette Raake purchased the company in 1997 and ran it as a family operation for the next two and a half decades — out of a single Bloomington campus that has anchored Indiana's commercial surface industry for two generations.
In 2008, the Raakes spun up a retail-showroom sibling on the same campus — Räke Cabinet & Countertop Solutions (the family spells the name Raake; the business carried the umlaut), serving homeowners shopping kitchen and bath. Laminated Tops continued as the dedicated B2B manufacturing arm it had always been, with its own name, its own customers, and its own front door. Two brands, two customer types, one campus — the structure that still defines the operation today.
Over fifty years, the work has changed shape. The materials grew: from postform laminate to solid surface, from countertops to lockers, from one shop floor to a full commercial fabrication line. The customers grew with us — hospitals, universities, manufacturers, schools, the kind of buyers who measure success by tolerances and turnover dates, not curb appeal.
What has not changed: the work is still built in Bloomington, by people who live in Bloomington, in a building you can drive up to.
The campus sign — both brands, one address.
One company. Three brands.
Six dates tell the story.
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1969
Laminated Tops of Central Indiana is founded.
A countertop fabrication shop opens in Bloomington, focused on postform laminate countertops for the local commercial market. The campus on East Dillman Road becomes the home of every business in this story.
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1997
Bob and Margarette Raake purchase the company.
Bob — a longtime industrial-arts teacher — and Margarette buy the 28-year-old company and run it as a family operation. Their son Rich joins the business after graduating from Purdue. Over the following decade, the product line expands beyond laminate into solid surface, cabinets, and millwork.
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2008
The retail/manufacturing split.
The Raakes spun up Räke Cabinet & Countertop Solutions as a retail showroom on the same Bloomington campus — serving homeowners shopping kitchen and bath. Laminated Tops continued as the dedicated B2B manufacturing entity it had always been, with its own name, website, and customer base. Two brands, two customer types, one campus.
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2017
The supply relationship begins.
Quality Surfaces — a stone fabrication shop in Spencer, Indiana, owned since 2014 by John Cook — began supplying stone countertops to both Laminated Tops and Räke. Laminated Tops fabricated its own laminate and solid surface in-house, but stone came from Quality Surfaces. Six years of that relationship made what came next obvious.
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2023
One roof.
John acquired both Laminated Tops and Räke. Three businesses that had been working together for six years came under one ownership — without merging their operations. The B2B manufacturer, the retail showroom, and the stone fabricator each kept doing what they had always done.
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2026
One name. In progress
The rebrand to the unified Quality identity began in 2026 and is rolling out across the three businesses. The names change; the operations don't. Each brand keeps doing the work it has been doing — under a single family identity that finally matches the shape of the company underneath:
Quality Casework
Quality Surfaces
In-house stone fabrication, Cambria-certified installation, NSI-accredited. Operating under this name since 2014. Spencer, IN.
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Quality Cabinet
and Surface Studio
Retail kitchen and bath showroom. Operated as Räke Cabinet & Countertop Solutions from 2008 through 2026, on the same Bloomington campus as Casework.
Visit Site →The “Q” stands for Engineered Satisfaction.
How an engineer ended up in casework
John didn't set out to buy a countertop business. In his own words:
I was actually looking for a machine shop in the area. I called up a business broker. They had a machine shop listed, and they said, “Unfortunately, that has already sold.” So I said, “Well, what is this other business you have for sale?” They just had it listed as “supplier of home improvement products.” I'm thinking, “Well, that can be anything.”
Come to find out, it was the countertop business. I met with the owners, checked out the equipment and operations, and what I kind of realized was that doing the countertop is a lot like a machine shop, except the machines are a lot bigger and your material is stone instead of metal. So I felt like it fit right in with what I was wanting to do.
— John Cook, owner
Before Quality Surfaces, John spent 9.5 years as a Design Engineer at Cummins Engine Company — product design, manufacturing, parts sourcing, learning how to make things and how to make them better. He has a mechanical engineering degree and built his own woodworking CNC routers as a hobby on the side.
That background runs through every part of the operation today. The CNC equipment in our shop is the same family of precision tooling John worked with on engine programs, scaled up. The way we approach a quote, schedule a project, and hand off an install reflects an engineer's expectation of measurable, repeatable results — not a craftsman's intuition alone.
It's why “Engineered Satisfaction” isn't a slogan we paint on a wall. It's the discipline that decides whether the casework lands on schedule, fits the wall the architect drew, and looks the way the owner imagined.
What Engineered Satisfaction looks like on your project
Five things you should expect from us, every time.
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Schedule reliability
We hold to the dates we commit to. When the GC has a punch-list deadline, we are the trade that hits ours.
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Specification fidelity
What's drawn is what's built. Change orders get priced, documented, and confirmed before the saw runs — not after.
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In-house fabrication
Laminate from our Bloomington floor. Solid surface from Bloomington and Spencer. Stone from Spencer. Cambria installed by our certified crews from either location. One number to call when something needs an answer.
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Multi-material from one source
Most casework shops outsource their tops. We don't. Specify laminate, solid surface, granite, quartz, soapstone, Dekton, large-format porcelain, or Cambria — one company is accountable for all of it.
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Engineering ownership at the top
The person who runs the company spent a decade designing engines for Cummins. The CNC fabrication line, the project tracking, the install QC — all of it carries that fingerprint.
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