Stone Care: The Pros Speak Out
By K. Schipper
When it comes to stone-care problems, it’s easy to apply the classic line from the movie Cool Hand Luke: What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.
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Stone Care: Avoid Repair?
Using a impregnating sealer and keeping an installation clean are two ways of preventing stone-care problems, but solving other problems involves more than a couple of on-site tips and tricks.
Shows Going Strong in 2002
While a few events remain on schedule until year’s end, 2002 appears to be a solid year for stone-related trade shows and events.
News Briefs – October 2002
• Innovative Marble & Tile Inc. recently celebrated 21 years in the trade. The Hauppauge, N.Y.-based fabricator and installer now has offices in six foreign companies, and supplied more than 50 million ft² of stone since 1981.
Brazil, Part I
The Brazilian granite industry reflects, in a peculiar way, the economical and social development of the country. From exporter of blocks of granite to Italy during the decades of 1980s and 1990s, the Brazilian...
Job Bidding: Going BIG in Stages
By Rick Stenberg Do you want to do a BIG Project, but you’re just the little guy? How can a small fabrication shop do a large high-rise office building? How can crews of four...
CNC: Detailing The Design
Computerized production can speed up and smooth out a shop’s workflow – but dealing with the computer itself is another matter. All CNC-based devices allow for entering the dimensions of a job, along with...
P.F. Chang’s China Bistro Inc.
By K. Schipper Scottsdale, Ariz.-based P.F. Chang’s China Bistro Inc. is offers unique Chinese cuisine at more than 70 restaurants – and each location is a visual feast for stone lovers as well. “We...
Pentagon Phoenix Project, Arlington, Va.
By K. Schipper ARLINGTON, Va. – Last year, it was just a routine move-in. This past month, when Pentagon employees started returning again to the section known as Wedge 1, newly clad in Indiana...
Room to Groan
By Emerson Schwartzkopf The other day, I saw what could be a fabricator’s nightmare: A slab of 1”-think granite. On a palette, ready for the truck. At the front door of my local Home...