CARRARA, Italy – Dimensional-stone exports from Italy grew slightly in volume and higher in value during the first quarter of 2006, according to a report from Internazionale Marmi e Macchine (IMM). The report, derived...
• Terroxy® Resin Systems from Wheeling, Ill.-based Terrazzo & Marble (T&M) Supply went into five of the 2006 Honor Awards from the National Terrazzo & Mosaic Association (NTMA). The plaudits include the Job of...
• Bonsal American names Shawn King as director of marketing/product development, overseeing brand management and product research and development for both the Sakrete® and Bonsal® brands. She previously served as marketing director for Alemite...
DALLAS – A chance to see the latest in stone techniques and some savory Texas barbecue brought in the crowds for the annual Dimensional Tools & Supply BBQ and Seminar, held July 21 at...
By Jerry Paul, Tom Gjerstad and Brent Ford
Machinery will only operate as well as your tools. Don’t cut corners to save a few dollars on tooling; the $50 that you might save up front will probably cost you thousands of dollars in efficiencies and lost fabricating opportunities.
By Todd Messelt
MINNEAPOLIS – When the new Minneapolis Central Library opened to the public in May 20, it came more than 20 years after the first grumbling about the need for an upgraded. Like most larger public projects, the campaign to build a new library was a decades-long, on-again off-again affair that crested and waned with the crisscrossing tides of public opinion, political wrangling and economic reality.
By K. Schipper
AUSTIN, Texas –There’s something about the idea of a company flowing smoothly from one generation to the next that lurks in the soul of most business founders.
Bob Stasswender will tell you that reality can sometimes throw up a speed bump.
NEW YORK – When someone talks about a moving experience at a memorial, they usually aren’t talking about a stone monument literally heading down the street. And yet that’s what happened here earlier this summer, at the most-famous spot in recent U.S. history.
By Mark Lauzon
As many of you know by now, I administer www.stoneadvice.com, a very cool (and I don’t mind saying so) and useful place for slab fabricators. We started the site just about a year ago.
• Braxton-Bragg Corp. launches www.braxtonbragg.com, offering direct ordering online of products, with shipping from the company’s warehouses in Knoxville, Tenn., and Fresno, Calif. The site will also feature daily and weekly updates alerting users...