By Cathie Beck
SPOKANE VALLEY, Wash. – It took the Marcella family nearly four decades to bring natural stone into their tile business – and it’s taken far less time to become one of the area’s premier fabrication companies.
By Mark Lauzon
When we started our fabrication company, we had very simple equipment, not a whole lot of skill and really big hearts (not to mention really thick skin).
Marketing plan? Who’s got time to plan?
SWANTON, Vt. – A small quarry here is the focus of a federal investigation of an alleged investment fraud involving up to $7 million. The Burlington (Vt.) Free Press reports that John Byors is...
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Fourteen stone carvers from around the world will converge on this Midwestern city, beginning next month, for Minnesota Rocks!, the International Stone Carving Symposium. The event, organized by Public Art...
DALLAS – Exhibit-floor space for StonExpo 2006 is more than 80-percent sold for the November event in Las Vegas, according to Hanley Wood LLC, the event’s owner and producer. Dallas-based Hanley Wood Exhibitions notes...
NEW YORK – Exhibitors at the ITSS Miami show last month may be in line for a free booth at the company’s Las Vegas event this October … providing that they appear at other...
FLINT, Mich. – Some exquisite marble flooring at a local historic building is – literally – sinking like a stone. The Flint Journal reports that the 15’ X 22’ lobby floor at Durant-Dort Carriage...
CLEVELAND – A new study funded by the Marble Institute of America indicates that granite, marble and quartz surfaces are all easily cleaned to meet FDA surface sanitizer criteria of 5-log reduction pathogens on...
• FinishPro Tools LLC of Lenexa, Kan., acquired the Goldblatt and Pacesetter masonry-tool brands from The Stanley Works in early March. Stanley originally acquired Goldblatt in 1992; FinishPro will incorporate the line through the...