By Aaron Crowley
With the idea that he’d just fabricate a kitchen or two a month, Jim started his own stone company four years ago. He could do this with the tools he’d been using to do side work, make a better living, and have some free time. He’d be free to work when he wanted to and not having someone telling him what to do would be the icing on the cake.
By K. Schipper
CHICAGO – Like just about every other septuagenarian, the Chicago Board of Trade building began showing its age.
By K. Schipper
CROW, Ore. – Using one natural product to complement another sounds like a great idea – but when it came to putting natural stone in the new facilities of Sweet Cheeks Winery, the process ended up as anything but simple.
By Emerson Schwartzkopf
October marks the start of the last of the annual trade-show frenzy, with notable events at home and abroad. As an editor of a stone magazine, I get to be in the thick of it, pushing through crowds and stepping on feet in several languages.
At least one of those feet I’ll tread on should be yours.
• Alpha Professional Tools® adds John Ryniak to the Oakland, N.J.-based tool manufacturer’s sales team. Ryniak, who holds several years of outside sales experience in related industries, will be responsible for the Mid-Atlantic Territory,...
• Stone Storage Solutions (SSS) acquired BLS Enterprises in mid-September and moved the customer service, design, manufacturing and shipping operations to Middleborough, Mass. “The acquisition of BLS allows Stone Storage Solutions to take a...
MADRID – The rehabilitation of the Wall of San Miguel Alto in Granada, Spain, is the winner of the PIEDRA 2006 Architecture Award. The project, carried out by Andelusian architect Antonio Jiménez Torrecillas, was...
NEW YORK – Stone Source, a Manhattan-based stone distributor, will be fueling future growth with approximately $15 million in new funding. The company received $8.2 million in late August from the New York State...
DALLAS – StonExpo East, the stone-industry event set for next March in Atlanta, is already 70-percent sold out, according to show producer Hanley Wood Exhibitions. “It is great hearing the fantastic support that StonExpo...
WINDHOEK, Namibia – Bridgewater Marble and Granite Works of Bound Brook, N.J., signed an agreement in late August with Namibia Stone Processing (NSP) to directly import Namibian stone to the United States. According to...