Category: Company Press

THERKUTHERU, India – An entirely automatic system, equipped with the most advanced technology, is set for the factory here of PRP Exports, one of the major exporters of granite blocks worldwide. Pedrini Spa of...

OLATHE, Kan. – Husqvarna Construction Products (HCP) will bring several well-known brands under a single name – its own.
HCP will now brand products formerly marketed under the Dimas, Partner and Target names as Husqvarna Construction Products. Some double-branding will occur during 2007 as the parent company, Stockholm-based Husqvarna AB, implements the change worldwide.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Some old standby Bonsal American products in the installation trade will get a new identity this spring. ProSpec®, a Sakrete brand, will be the new tag for Bonsal products for tile...

• Best Tile Distributors of New England recently celebrated the grand opening of a contractor-specific showroom in Woburn, Mass., with an all-day training program sponsored by the National Tile Contractors Association (NTCA).The program, hosted...

• Northwood Machine Manufacturing Co. expands its Stoneworks Division with Robbie Tidwell as sales and marketing manager. Tidwell, who’s been with the Louisville, Ky.-based company since 1992, holds extensive industry experience, including operation of...

POMPANO BEACH, Fla. – Pragma S.r.l., the Casinalbo, Italy-based manufacturer of technologies for the ceramic and marble industries, recently opened a North American division – Pragma USA.

  CASTELLEONE, Italy – Comandulli Costruzione Meccaniche S.r.l., a leading constructor of edge polishing machines, merged with milling-machine manufactuer Fratelli Bisso S.r.l of Ferrada di Moconesi, Italy, in December.

  • Alpha Professional Tools® adds Don Ferko to represent its Ohio Valley Territory of Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and West Virginia, along with the western regions of New York and Pennsylvania. Prior to joining the Oakland, N.J.-based company, Ferko holds 14 years of experience working with tile, marble and granite, and is a third-generation tile setter and marble mason.

CaesarStone joined with Architecture for Humanity in sponsoring a program of home development in East Biloxi, Miss., for families whose homes were destroyed by 2005’s Hurricane Katrina. The Sun Valley, Calif., company committed to...

  LE SUEUR, Minn. – Cambria, the sole U.S.-based producer of quartz surfaces, will continue its exclusivity through 2012.