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European Stone Logo Gets IMM Support

CARRARA, Italy – The CarraraMarmotec stone-industry event will support the Pietra Autentica logo as part of the European campaign launched by the European & International Federation of Natural Stone Industries (EUROROC). The logo, recently...

Passings: Craig W. Hamilton

Craig W. Hamilton, 55, director of research and development at MAPEI Corp., died unexpectedly from a heart attack on September 16, 2005. Hamilton worked in the ceramic tile and stone industry for more than...

Company Briefs – December 2005

• IGE Solutions Inc. recently relocated to a new, state-of-the-art facility in Jupiter, Fla., only a few blocks away from the previous location. The larger headquarters will accommodate the company’s growing staff and expanded...

People – December 2005

• Sarah Kelly, sales and marketing coordinator for Dakota Stone Design in Fargo, N.D., is the winner of its 2005 Migliore Natural Stone Education Scholarship from the Marble Institute of America (MIA). The education...

Athenian Marble, Oklahoma City

By K. Schipper
  
   OKLAHOMA CITY – Curt Cobb remembers being eight or nine years old when his father, Philip Cobb, first began experimenting with cultured marble in the family’s garage. Before too long, Athenian Marble was doing well enough that the senior Cobb was able to quit installing insulation with his brother installing insulation.

Mistaken Identity

By Emerson Schwartzkopf
  
   You’re driving to check on a large installation, and all of a sudden you’re in a no-passing zone, following a huge untarped load of gravel. You hear that familiar ding, ding, tick, ding, tick and, if you’re lucky, you don’t see the little star marks appearing on the windshield.

Second City: Coverings Second Site

ALEXANDRIA, Va.—Beginning in 2007, Coverings will find a second home in Chicago. The McCormick Place Convention Center, the largest convention facility in the United States, will host the tile and stone event in odd-numbered...