Prism Awards Extends Entry Date
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Miss last week’s deadline to enter the Prism Awards competition at Coverings 2009? Well, you’re getting a reprieve … but don’t delay.
Category: News
InnoChem Gets Plastic Associates
DORAVILLE, Ga. – Plastic Associates Manufacting Inc., makers of KBOND adhesives, has been acquired by InnoChem LLC.
More Claims Against Rock Tops
MACOMB, Mich. – Legal actions concerning Rock Tops Inc., the multi-state stone fabrication company that failed in mid-December, continue to grow.
Milligan New VIC President
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Kelly Milligan, a 21-year employee with VIC International Group, is the company’s new president and CEO.
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.
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.
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.
Rock Tops Inc. Closes
MACOMB, Mich. – The mid-December collapse of Rock Tops Inc., a multi-state stone fabricator, left hundreds of employees out of work, an unknown number of customers without pre-paid countertops, and liabilities that easily amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
U.S. Slows Indian Granite
CHENNAI, India – The soft U.S. market for dimensional stone is causing more than a ripple effect on India’s granite industry.
Passings: Herbert E. Fletcher II
Herbert E. Fletcher II, 84, passed away Nov. 18 at The Community Hospice of Washington of complications from heart failure.