The Tiger Stone is an electrical machine that lays sheets of pavers from a sliding platform. Operators just load the pavers from a hopper to a sliding board in the desired configuration. Once in position the side guides or edging plates connected to the sliding board of the machine are adjusted to the desired width. Sensors on the side guides allow the machine to exactly follow the road edge; workmen don't steer it. Once the sheets of bricks/pavers are in place on the ground, a mini-loader, which is also feeding pavers into the hopper, tampers the new pavers by force of its weight.

Tiger Stone is a patented electrical-driven paving machine invented by Henk van Kuijk, director of Vanku, a Dutch industrial company.

The machine requires one to three operators on the back platform of the machine. The workmen take the pavers from a hopper, which is being fed by a mini-loader to a hopper, and place the pavers in the designated paving pattern onto the sliding board. As the electric crawler inches forward along a sand base, the pavers slide down and are packed together by force of their weight and gravity. Sheets of pavers are laid on the ground as the tread-tracked machine slowly moves forward. Sensors detect the curb or roadway edge, i.e., the operators do not steer the machine by hand. The side guides can be adjusted to the desired width.

The manufacturer says the machine can lay 400 sq. meters of pavers in a work shift.

The machine comes in three models: 6, 5 and 4 meters widths. These models have several options: a roof to work in all weather conditions, multiple electrical connections, and a platform to stock stone used for the edges.