Silestone Sets Green Theme at 2010 Winter Olympics
VANCOUVER, B.C. – When athletes begin occupying the Olympic Village here in February for the 21st Winter Olympic Games, they’ll see a herculean installation of countertops – more than 71,000 ft².
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MIA Dimension Stone Manual Updated
CLEVELAND – Three updated chapters of the Marble Institute of America’s Dimension Stone Design Manual (DSDM), detailing standards on surfaces and installations set to go into effect Jan. 1, are now available. The chapters...
Next StonExpo: January 2011
Updated on Dec. 10 with official announcement and quotes from Hanley Wood and MIA officials.
DALLAS – StonExpo/Marmomacc Americas will return … but not next year.
Hanley Wood Exhibitions, the owner/producer of StonExpo, will move the next edition to Jan 25-28, 2011, at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas.
Sustainable Masonry Growing
BOWIE, Md. – The Sustainable Masonry Certification Program from the International Masonry Institute (IMI) now includes 31 contractors nationwide.
Bellcomb Gets Stonewurks; Plans Stone-Panel Expansion
MINNEAPOLIS – Bellcomb Technologies Inc., a leading manufacturer of honeycomb panels acquired Stonwurks , a division of M&G Designs Inc. of Sylvan Grove, Kans., last month.
Stonwurks offers stone products combining a wide variety of thin stone bonded to honeycomb for a number of markets including marine, transportation, and construction. Bellcomb is moving Stonwurks production to Minneapolis, along with its key employees.
MIA Honors O’Neill, Schumacher with 2009 Awards
LAS VEGAS – The Marble Institute of America (MIA) recently saluted a stone-industry “lifer” and one of the trade’s up-and-comers with a pair of awards here during the recent StonExpo/Marmomacc Americas event.
Quebec’s Imperial Granite to Close
STANSTEAD, Quebec — Imperial Granite Inc., a monument supplier to the U.S. market for nearly three decades, will close in January.
Tomb of the Unknowns: Repair, Maybe Replace?
MARBLE, Colo. – After four years of waiting in a Colorado mountain town, the designated replacement stone for Arlington National Cemetery’s Tomb of the Unknowns may finally hit the road soon.
Carrara Marble’s Severson 1st MIA Natural Stone Craftsman
LAS VEGAS – Randy Severson, general superintendent of Carrara Marble Co. in City of Industry, Calif., is the first Natural Stone Craftsman of the Year, as awarded by the Marble Institute of America (MIA).
Drug Arrest at Ohio Stone Shop
FAIRFIELD, Ohio — Federal law-enforcement agents found something other than stone at a local shop yesterday — as in $1.5 million in marijuana.