ASHEVILLE, N.C. – The National Training Center for Stone and Masonry Trades (NTC) will go coast-to-coast next year with a location in northern California. The new training center, located at StoneCrafters Outlet in Gilroy,...
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Entries are now being accepted for the 2005 PRISM Stone in Architecture Awards, giving architects and designers a chance to win accolades … and $10,000. That grand prize will be awarded...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – The stone trade in Pakistan may be setting some large goals in improving exports … but it’s not just a matter of production and sales. Principals in Pakistan’s marble and granite...
VERONA, Italy – Is another U.S. stone-industry trade event in the offing? Giovannie Mantovani, director general of VeronaFiere, producer of the annual Marmomacc stone show in Verona, made a strong indication recently about the...
• The Marble Institute of America recognized Joseph Kapcheck, president of J. Kapcheck & Co. in Des Plaines, Ill., with the 2004 Migliore Award for Lifetime Achievement. Kapcheck, noted in the award for “his...
• Polycor promotes Patrick Perus to vice president of sales and marketing. He remains president for two Polycor divisions: Georgia Marble Dimension Stone and Valley Family, and also continues as president of Polycor Georgia...
• Terrazzo and Marble Supply Cos. (T&M) of appoints Jeff McCollum as marketing manager. He joins the Wheeling, Ill.-based stone, equipment and supplies distributor with more than 10 years of sales and marketing experience....
By Sandra Eich
Cracks in marble and stone-tile flooring installations are bad news – plain and simple.
By K. Schipper
BEND, Ore. – The owners of Imagine Stoneworks ask their customers to “imagine the possibilities,” but it’s advice they’ve also taken to heart.
By Emerson Schwartzkopf
The Soviet Union took close to 75 years to be consigned to what Ronald Reagan called “the ash heap of history.” It took my last computer less than 48 months.