World C’top Demand Grows
CLEVELAND – Global residential countertop installations will grow by 3.3 percent annually and top 3.6 billion ft² by 2013, according to a new study from The Freedonia Group Inc.
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Rugo New MIA President
CLEVELAND – Brett S. Rugo is the new president of the Marble Institute of America (MIA).
China Blade Duty Evasion?
WASHINGTON – Actions by some Chinese manufacturers of diamond blades are possibly circumventing U.S. “antidumping” customs duties, according to information filed late last year by legal counsel for U.S. saw-blade producers.
India Granite: Provincial Shift
BANGALORE, India –Karnataka, the Indian state with more than half of the country’s granite resources, is finding itself bested by a neighbor, according to the Delhi-based Financial Express.
New ASTM Standard on Stone Analysis (Jan. 29)
WEST CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. – Petrography – the detailed description of rock – now has a new standard for dimensional stone.
March “Success” Seminar Kicks Off 2010 MIA Education (Jan. 28)
HOUSTON – The first 2010 educational event for the Marble Institute of America (MIA) – “Business Success for Fabricators – Don’t Let Revenue Slip Away!” – will take place here on March 11.
Salem For Scandinvent U.S.
LIBERTY, N.C. – Salem Stone is the new reseller for Scandinvent AB for the United States.
Salem, the Winston-Salem, N.C.-based machinery and tooling distributor, will also handle Canadian sales in Ontario for Västerås, Sweden-based Scandinvent.
Marmo Meccanica Links Units
ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich. – MARMO MECCANICA S.p.A. consolidated its North American operations recently to better serve its customers needs, with sales, service, parts and tooling now offered through a central location here.
Passings: Thomas Wilson
Thomas Jackson Wilson, 91, founder of Capitol Marble and Granite Co. and a promoter of southwest U.S.-quarried granite, died Jan. 4 in Austin, Texas.
Allied Stone Industries Opens New Website
The Allied Stone Industries recently opened a new Website at www.alliedstone.com. Allied Stone Industries is a not-for-profit organization formed in the 1950s to provide a venue for stone companies to gather together and discuss...