Sustainability: Setting the Standard in Stone
When it comes to long life-cycles and durability, stone IS the sustainable material. It’s up to the industry, though, to prove it.
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Saint-Gobain, Grenite® Ramp Up E-Stone Slab Production (May 23)
RAVENNA, Ohio – Grenite®, a U.S.-made engineered stone with high recycled-material content, will expand its market reach with slab production at a new facility here.
Travertine Redux
Can you change the look – and the value – of a less-than-premium-grade travertine floor? Tom McNall advises that it’s not a quick fix, but a thorough restoration can take the square-foot appeal from a Jefferson to a Jackson.
How Tweet It Is
Twitter can do more than toss around celebrity gossip or idle chat between teens. A growing number of stone-industry vendors and fabricators are warming to the short-form text messaging … and Stone Business offers a way to track them without getting pulled into the Twitterverse.
Summit Stone Works Inc.
The nearby ski slopes of Colorado’s Summit County often call to J.D. Monroe and his staff at Summit Stone Works, but renovation work for the area’s massive condo rental base should give the shop a real lift in business.
May 2011
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MATERIALS
SOUTH AMERICAN STONE
Andean Stone Co., Miami, offers travertine/marble and onyx quarried in Peru. A wide range of colors are available in both cross- and vein-cut for tiles, slabs, shower panels, mosaics, molding, sinks, fireplaces and architectural pieces. Among its newest colors are Misti Sandstone, Marron Limestone and Jurassic Black Marble.
Contact: Andean Stone Co., 305-460-3320
StatWatch: U.S. Stone Imports, March 2011
Is the recovery continuing for stone? The data from U.S. ports-of-entry offers a mixed report; most categories and countries are building up from 2010, but a single country — and it’s a big one — may cast some uncertainty.
VIDEO: Marble quarries of Carrara, Italy
Frankly, we don’t know why this video appeared on YouTube. But, Walker Zanger thought it good enough to link to on its Twitter feed today, and we agree. A bit of desktop travel to...
MIA Starts Monthly Shop-Safety Service (May 6)
CLEVELAND – The Marble Institute of America (MIA) now offers a monthly online service to promote safety training … and it’s offering the first month for free.
Advanced Concrete Course Set (May 5)
RALEIGH, N.C. –The Concrete Countertop Institute (CCI) will initiate an advanced four-day class for concrete-countertop professionals here next month.