Monuments for the Times
By Emerson Schwartzkopf In today’s uncertain times, monuments can provide a link to the past, and help draw some inspiration … and direction. In the past few years, a number of monuments appeared that...
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Laser: Etching a Niche
By Regan D. Dickinson Laser etching is a technology where the potential and applications appear limitless – but, for right now, laser-etched stonework is still getting its footing. It’s not a contradiction, either, when...
Name Calling
By Emerson Schwartzkopf Words are my business. Since the years of the first Nixon administration, I toiled over typewriters, hot-lead Linotypes, Telexes, Typositors, photo-film typesetters and more varieties of computer keyboards than I can...
Rock Of Ages Boosts Earnings
CONCORD, N.H. – Rock of Ages Corp. increased its estimates of earnings in mid-December for the fourth-quarter of 2002, due to better performance in its quarrying and retail operations. The granite-memorial company noted on...
Briefs – February 2003
• Cosmic Stone & Tile Distributors recently moved to a new 50,000-ft² showroom and warehouse facility in New Brunswick, N.J. The new phone number is 732-937-5400.
People – February 2003
• Richard Wood, a veteran of 20 years in the flooring and surfaces industries, is the new senior vice president of Q.E.P. Co. Inc., a Boca Raton, Fla.-based manufacturer and distributor of surface-preparation and...
Customizing the Countertop, Part II
By K. Schipper The growth in stone fabrication isn’t all in large commercial projects and new housing projects – there’s plenty of production by thousands of small shops in custom countertop work. Last month,...
Architects & Specifiers: A Stone Partnership
By Karen Pearse In the stone sector – like any other industry – you’ll find companies that are simply commodity suppliers. Their mantra is to make the sale, but ex caveat emptor. So, the...
Galloy and Van Etten Inc., Chicago
By K. Schipper CHICAGO – When Galloy and Van Etten Inc. opened the doors on the first business day of 2003, a major piece of the firm was missing – after more than 30...
Brazil, Part III
This is the last article of a series of three about the stone industry in Brazil. After presenting an extended retrospective of the sector published in the September and January issues of Stone Business,...