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...
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...
• 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...
• 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...
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.
By K. Schipper
If anyone’s looking for material to literally last centuries, stone’s the answer. So why bury it in a landfill?
By Mark Lauzon
“Umm … is that as good as that seam is going to be … well, are you are finished with it?”
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.
LAS VEGAS – The new year gets off to a quick – and strong – start next month, when close to 40,000 will head here for Surfaces 2006.
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...