Turkey: A New Leader?
By Emerson Schwartzkopf
As the stone business booms in the United States, there’s one country that’s becoming a market leader in bringing its products to the American market: Turkey.
Author: Administrator
Fabrication: Quartz vs. Quarried
By K. Schipper
With more than 90 percent natural materials in each piece of quartz surface, it’s a mix that’s close to quarried materials – but, with man-made resins making up the rest of the formula and providing the color options customers love, is quartz close enough to natural stone to actually fabricate and install the same?
Remembering the Stone
WASHINGTON – It took nearly a half-century for those who fought in World War II to be remembered on the National Mall.
Tile Underlayment: Be Prepared
By Mark Longfellow
Director, Custom Building Products
For tile installation professionals, completing a successful project starts with proper surface preparation.
Onis Stone, Fort Worth, Texas
By K. Schipper
FORT WORTH, Texas – Ask a psychiatrist about Onis Stone, and the doctor would probably diagnose a split personality.
On The Road Again
By Emerson Schwartzkopf
For more than a decade, I’ve spent at least one week of my life every year in Orlando, Fla., and never taken an amusement-park ride. If “That’s Incredible!” still aired, I’d earn a spot before the second commercial. Instead, I get to be part of a newspaper article.
People – May 2004
• Anthony Remington is the newest CAD/CAM operator-designer for Precision H2O in Spokane, Wash. He resides in nearby Medical Lake, Wash. • Moises Samaniego is the new client-fulfillment manager for Creative Materials Corp. He...
Stone Eagles Soar at WWII Memorial
WASHINGTON – Two bald eagles, carved in South Carolina stone, will be at a place of honor when the National World War II Memorial is dedicated here later this month. The two bas-relief eagles,...
BSI Cites Pelli With Bybee Prize
ITASCA, Ill. – Cesar Pelli, founder of Cesar Pelli and Associates and former dean of the school of architecture at Yale University, is the 2004 recipient of the James Daniel Bybee Prize from the...
MIA Selects Tech Director
CLEVELAND – Charles J. “Chuck” Muehlbauer, a 20-year veteran of the dimensional-stone industry, is the new technical director for the Marble Institute of America Inc. (MIA), effective this month. Muehlbauer will direct all aspects...