Category: Materials
Whether it’s about stone or other hard surfaces, you’ll find the details here on trends, supplies and the behind-the-scenes stories of what’s in the fabrication mix.
Natural Thin-Veneer Stone: Thin and Real
By K. Schipper
For some jobs, there’s no substitute for natural stone – except for those minor considerations of costs, weight and installation issues.
Thin-Veneer Natural Stone
By K. Schipper
If you’re at a loss on how to sell thin-veneer natural stone to customers, try going inside.
American Exotic
By K. Schipper
Not all that long ago, dimensional stone meant domestic stone. Limestones from Indiana, granites from Wisconsin, marbles from Vermont were the norm, all quarried and cut in the U.S.A.
Stone Distribution: Trim Tomorrow
By K. Schipper
Go strictly by the amount of natural stone not coming into this country, or the decline in new housing sales, or a myriad of other national economic indicators, and it’s easy to believe the industry is gasping for air.
MIA Surveys Distributor Performance
CLEVELAND – The Marble Institute of America (MIA) is asking U.S. wholesale natural-stone-slab distributor to participate in a groundbreaking distributor-only benchmarking survey.
Quartz-Surface Showcase 2008
The following are U.S.-based companies and offices actively selling quartz-surface material.
Fabricators Launch New Group, Stone Line
AUSTIN, Tex. – A group of independent fabricator shops is taking on larger competitors with a new collective identity … and its own line of stone.
DuPont Expanding Zodiac® Output
THETFORD MINES, Quebec – DuPont will make a multi-million dollar investment in its Canadian-based Zodiac® quartz-surfaces manufacturing process.
Hanwa Sets North American Plant
LONDON, Ontario –Hanwha Living & Creative Corp. broke ground here last month for a manufacturing and distribution plant for its Hanwha Surfaces products, including HanStone™ quartz surfaces.