CINCINNATI – Fletcher Building Ltd., a New Zealand materials and construction company, will buy Formica Corp. for $700 million Formica officials announced the deal on May 22 with a statement from their Cincinnati headquarters....
ST. LOUIS – Pearlman Industries Inc. acquired Dallas-based Dimensional Tools Inc. on May 16. Dimensional Tools will become part of Pearlman’s Keystone Tools division. Terms of the transaction weren’t disclosed. Dimensional is a value-added...
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Braxton-Bragg Corp. relocated to a new facility here that is larger, more-efficient and more-convenient for serving their customers. The new 46,000 ft² facility, located just off I-640 in Knoxville, offers a...
• Jet Edge Inc. promotes Nancy Lauseng to the newly created position of marketing manager to oversee and coordinate all media relations, trade exhibitions, product marketing materials and Website for the St. Michael, Minn.,...
• Marmo Machinery USA announces its Fifth Annual Summer Machine Open House on June 29 at its Southfield, Mich., headquarters. The event will display a representative sample of Marmo Machinery’s major equipment segments, including...
TORONTO – All of the 24,000 marble slabs now cladding the 72-story First Canadian Place skyscraper will be inspected after one of them fell 51 stories during an afternoon thunderstorm on May 15. The...
By K. Schipper
Dimensional stone today may seem like endless containers full of foreign-extracted granite, but there’s plenty of material from a source that’s easy to overlook – right here in the United States.
By K. Schipper
UNION CITY, Calif. – It’s human nature to want to see some good come from the worst of situations. Certainly the Flight 93 Memorial, scheduled to be dedicated here this summer, goes a long way toward duplicating the determined spirit exemplified by the passengers who refused to let their aircraft be used as a weapon on Sept. 11, 2001.
By Cathie Beck
MOBILE, Ala. – Ryan Lott, president and owner Stone Specialties Inc., knows a lot about granite fabrication – but he also knows about the futility of blowing nearly half-a-million dollars to hold back Mother Nature.
The following overview of the automatic edge polishers and profilers market is part of an occasional series from Stone Business on fabrication machinery. While there are a few more players in the United States from our last overview in October 2005, the product mix is essentially the same.