Orphans of the Stone
Think there’s anything worse than having a car without a company, such as a Pontiac or Plymouth, in your garage? Try dealing with a bridge saw or CNC or any other machine for fabricating stone when the manufacturer disappears.
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Stone Inspector Course: Vegas in Oct.
LAS VEGAS – Stone Forensics, in cooperation with The Stone and Tile School, will offer a Stone Inspector training program here on Oct. 19-23. The program, offered once a year, is designed to teach...
Spall: Mistake in Identity?
Decades ago, in the heyday of National Lampoon, then-editor P.J. O’Rourke ran a feature called “What’s Your Sign?” Unlike the fictional humor in the rest of the magazine, the feature offered a page of reader-supplied photos of business signs from real life – because a room of comedians couldn’t think of that much good stuff in a year, let alone a month.
Import Trends 2008
In the world market, the United States shapes up as the nation with the biggest appetite for natural stone – and, in 2008, the country went on a crash diet.
Sept. SFA Workshop: Illinois
MORRIS, Ill. – The Stone Fabricators Alliance will hold a workshop on Sept. 3-5 at Morris Granite in Morris, Ill.
Judge Orders AIM Bankruptcy
WILKESBORO, N.C. – A federal court action officially put Advanced Industrial Machinery (AIM) Inc. into Chapter 7 bankruptcy yesterday, capping a three-month legal battle involving the Hickory, N.C.-based CNC stone-fabrication machine manufacturer.
ISFA Sets Green Meet
LEHI, Utah – The International Surface Fabricators Association (ISFA) is set to go Green at a Town Hall Meeting this fall in St. Petersburg, Fla.
Concrete Joins StonExpo Mix
DALLAS – Another custom surface – concrete countertops – will take to the floor and more during StonExpo/Marmomacc Americas this fall.
Hanley Wood Exhibitions, StonExpo’s owner/producer, announced a three-year endorsement agreement today with the Concrete Countertop Institute (CCI) of Raleigh, N.C.
Transparent Sustainability
When it comes to the green market, stone often gets to take the hard route to a project, either in trying to meet arbitrary material specs or competing with products bearing some kind of Sustainability Seal of Approval. The obstacles are often well-meaning in nature, although it’s also reminiscent of road paved with good intentions and its ultimate destination.
The toughest one, though, may be competing with a product that doesn’t exist, and may never see the side of a building anywhere in the world. It sounds absurd, but it’s true.
Biesse Sets Diamut for U.S., Canada
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Biesse S.p.A officially launched its North America operations of the Diamut diamond-tooling line today.