NORTH HAMPTON, N.H. – Water Treatment Technologies’ patent for their EnviroSystem has been approved by the U.S. Patent Office. The EnviroSystem does not rely on gravity, chemicals or centrifugal force to filter and recycle...
BIRMINGHAM, Mich. – The Stone Shop International announces what is believed to be the first stone-industry fabrication franchise program. The company, owned and operated by Art Attaway, will provide appropriate equipment packages, fabricator training,...
CLEVELAND – There’s the Oscar®, the Tony® and the Emmy®. And, later this year, a new member enters the awards pantheon: the Rocky. The Marble Institute of America (MIA) will hold The First Annual...
CARRARA, Italy – Problems with exterior marble that’s installed improperly will be addressed by a new study in this legendary stone-production area. Coordinated by Internazionale Marmi e Macchine (IMM) Carrara, the effort will investigate...
KASAMA, Japan – A stone quarry cooperative is thinking big about its products– as in a 150-ton solid granite billboard. The rock was unearthed from the site of a complex for the city’s Inada...
• The two latest monthly winners in Hard Rock Tool’s “Delivering Value Sweepstakes” – Lorenzo Avila , shop foreman for Colorado Marble in Denver and Rafael Herrera of Venezia Stone Fabrication in Anaheim, Calif.—...
• A two-member Chinese delegation of stone and marble merchants arrived in Karachi, Pakistan, in late March to finalize a deal to buy granite and marble products with the All Pakistan Marble Industries Association...
• Mike Salinger and Al Benoliel join Alpha Professional Tools® in the new positions of regional sales managers; both have extensive sales and sales-management experience within the industry. Also in sales, the Wycoff, N.J.-based...
I am writing to you in regards to a recent article written about the Middlebury College Library (“Bold Bucolic,” Stone Business, March 2005). I am very disappointed in that this article has misrepresented the...
By K. Schipper
ST. CLOUD, Minn. – Custom Stone Interiors (CSI) does more than share its initials with one of today’s hottest television franchises – both have taken technology and used it to put a new spin on an age-old activity.