A prominent union will ban members working with the product by mid next year unless the government stops it being imported and used Australia-wide.
Stonemason Kyle Goodwin was just 33 when diagnosed with silicosis after years of cutting, shaping and polishing engineered stone benchtops.
He received the devastating diagnosis four and a half years ago and his medical team predicted he had just five years left before the disease claimed his life.
Engineered stone is cheaper than naturally occurring stone but dust created during the manufacturing process can pose a serious health risk.
Mr Goodwin is the face of the Construction Forestry Maritime Mining Energy Union's campaign to ban the product.
"Instead of planning a family, we're planning my funeral," he says in the advertisement.
"I used to install kitchen benches. People liked engineered stone because it was cheap. But the dust got into my lungs causing deadly, incurable silicosis.
"That's too high a price for anyone to pay.
"Nothing will save my life but if you join the campaign to stop the importation and manufacture of engineered stone, you can help save someone else's. Please."
Engineered stone is the asbestos of the 2020's, according to the union's Incoming National Secretary Zach Smith.
"Australian workers like Kyle are dying because of engineered stone," Mr Smith said.
"The companies flooding our markets with this cheap and nasty material know that but to them profits are more important than people's lives."
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