ISFA: New Name, Direction
LEHI, Utah – To make itself a more-cohesive industry group, the International Solid Surface Fabricators Association decided last month to make itself … well, a litle less solid.
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Rock Tops: Customers Contacted
MACOMB, Mich. – The countertop-less customers of Rock Tops Inc. got the news – officially – that they won’t be getting what they paid for from the now-defunct fabricator.
Whether they’ll get their money back, however, is still up in the air.
Fresh Look fof StonExpo Website
There’s a new look to the StonExpo/Marmomacc Americas Website.
The redesigned site, which went live today, features a simplified look for easier navigation and access to services for attendees and exhibitors for the industry event, set for Oct. 21-24 at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas.
The R-Word, Again
Is there anything that could get worse for a stone-countertop fabricator, now that the economy is still heading downward and one large multi-state competitor – Rock Tops Inc. – closed its doors and left hundreds of people on the hook?
Well, according to the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), it’s time for hats and horns again to celebrate January as National Radon Action Month.
A Workless Advance
As if stone shops didn’t have enough to worry about with radon, now there’s the Case of the Disappearing Shop.
MIA Initiates Granite Testing Plan
CLEVELAND – Home Approved Stone, a new national stone-safety testing program, from the Marble Institute of America (MIA), became active today.
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Digital Templating: Picture It
Digital templating, in all its forms, has come a long way since its inception. I remember the days when we were all just amazed we could use something other than a tape measure or glued-together sticks to get precise measurements.
A Clean Start
By Emerson Schwartzkopf
In late 2003 – somewhere in those times where you hid the phone under a wastebasket to avoid new customers – I noticed that a fabricator in one of our articles talked about planning for the slowdown in the market. Should that stay in, I thought, and make the guy look dopey?
Power and Production
By Tom McNall
It’s been a long, long time since I ran a 110V stone-restoration machine. When I started out, that was all I could get; with the 220V machines, the prices were astronomical when first offered. Today, some are still priced upwards of a small SUV, but there are more-reasonable options available.