Category: Company Press

• Abaco Machines opens its U.S. warehouse at 4855 Marine Ave. in Lawndale, Calif. to carry the company’s full line of products. The new telephone number is 310-644-9871. • Global Granite and Marble expands...

• Precision H20 appoints Chris Calby as facility manager for its Chicago location. Calby comes to the Spokane, Wash.-based waterjet-production company with a background in machine design and education; he’ll be responsible for day-to-day...

• TM Supply Companies of Wheeling, Ill, announces five new regional distributors for its Technistone® natural-quartz surfaces: Trends in Tile of Bridgestone, Mo. (St. Louis and a 75-mile surrounding radius); Design Surfaces Distributors Inc....

• L.A. Stone Station Inc. recently moved to a 30,000-ft² facility in Anaheim, Calif., including a trade showroom for its natural stone products. The importer/distributor is a member of the Stone Station chain of...

• Bob Heine joins Alpha Professional Tools® as sales representative for the Wyckoff, N.J., company’s Midwest Region. Heine, with 20 years of outside sales experience, will cover Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri,...

• Francis Heck joins VIC International Corp. as a technical sales and support representative. His long career in the stone industry includes work with W.J. Savage Co. and Sawing Systems Inc., before joining the...

• Richard Wood, a veteran of 20 years in the flooring and surfaces industries, is the new senior vice president of Q.E.P. Co. Inc., a Boca Raton, Fla.-based manufacturer and distributor of surface-preparation and...

•John Hoppe joins Park Industries in St. Cloud, Minn., as a sales associate for the Interiors Division; he formerly worked as a sales consultant for a CNC machine-tools agency in the Minneapolis area. Park...

• Dente Trading Co. of Cedar Grove, N.J., is set to open its new distribution center in Charlotte, N.C. The facility, operating as Dente Stone of Charlotte, will service the southeastern United States with...

UNION CITY, Calif. – One of the stone industry’s up-and-coming companies can show that it’s a pacesetter among U.S. firms, courtesy of a national magazine StoneTech Professional Inc. took a spot on the Inc...