CCI Offers Concrete C’top Cert.
RALEIGH, N.C. – The Concrete Countertop Institute (CCI) initiated a concrete countertop certification program today for industry professionals.
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Passings: Anthony “Tony” Brown, 74 (June 15)
Anthony “Tony” Brown, 74, of cancer in Greensboro, S.C. A member of the CMS North America team at its inception in 1987, Brown worked in the company’s Wood Division and, more recently, as area sales manager for its Stone Division in the southeastern United States. He retired from CMSNA in the spring of 2009.
2011 ICE Stays in Vegas
OREM, Utah – Next year’s edition of the International Countertop Expo (ICE) will get a new time, a new place … and the same city.
The Orem-based International Surface Fabricators Association (ISFA) announced an agreement with the Rio Hotel and Convention Center in Las Vegas late last week to host the second annual ICE on Oct. 20-22, 2011.
Coverings 2010 Hits 23,000+
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Going south led to anything but bad news for Coverings 2010, as attendance took a solid step up from last year’s event.
BSI Bybee Honoree: Laurie Olin
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Laurie D. Olin, RLA, FASLA, is the recipient of the 2010 James Daniel Bybee Prize from the Building Stone Institute (BSI).
Specialty Gets H.B. Fuller Name
AURORA, Ill. – Specialty Construction Brands (SCB) Inc. is now H.B. Fuller Construction Products Inc.
1Q U.S. Granite Imports Up 45%+
First-quarter (1Q) 2010 U.S. imports of granite slabs, tiles and other dimensional products increased by more than 45 percent from the same period last year.
PIEDRA 2010: Seeing The Light
By Paul Daniel
MADRID – This year´s PIEDRA exhibition, held from May 5-8, ended up smaller than previous editions, but still showed plenty of interest on an international scale.
Cold Spring Offers BIM Data
COLD SPRING, Minn. – Architects, designers and builders will get a hand in selecting natural stone from Cold Spring Granite with its new online library of Building Information Modeling (BIM) families.
3 Stone Items Win At Coverings
ORLANDO – The three new stone-related items taking awards in Coverings’ new-products competition aren’t exactly your father’s Oldsmobile – or your brother’s Uba Tuba, either.