Company Notes – February 2008

• Marmo Meccanica S.p.A. opens a new production facility in Monsano, Italy, near the stone-fabrication-machinery manufacturer’s previous plant. The new facility covers approximately 25,000 m² (269,097 ft²); during his speech at the inaugural ceremony, company president Stefano Amagliani emphasized the company’s important achievements but also reiterated its current management’s desire to continue to invest so the company improves its ability to compete in the international machinery market.
• Grazzini Brothers & Co. of Eagan, Minn., is the first company to earn the Accredited Natural Stone Commercial B Contractor designation under the Marble Institute of America‘s accreditation program. Commercial B (light commercial) companies are firms that handle commercial stone installations such as hotel lobbies, bank lobbies, and low-rise interior/exterior cladding. Grazzini Brothers and its executive vice president, Guido Gliori, completed the first two phases earlier in 2007, and passed inspections of its facility and a completed commercial installation in Minneapolis in December.