MIA Study Notes Granite Cleanliness
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...
Author: Administrator
Company Briefs – April 2006
• 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...
People – April 2006
• Leitch & Co./Intertool appoints Mike Malone as chief operating officer. He comes to the San Leandro, Calif., stone-tool manufacturer with a long career background in the construction and stone industries. Most recently, he...
Closing With YES!, Part II
By Mark Lauzon
Last month we did an overview of needs-based selling and defined some terms. Let’s do a quick recap.
Stone Craft, Denver
By Jake Rishavy
DENVER – In taking a brief glance at Stone Craft’s current campus of three large facilities—totaling just over 41,000 ft² on 4.5 acres—it’s hard to imagine that this company started in a space smaller than most people’s first apartments.
Continuous Production: Moving Right Along
Get used to hearing them, because these are two words that will keep popping up about stone fabrication: continuous production.
Laboring Short?
By Emerson Schwartzkopf
Just where are all the good stoneworkers, anyway?
Seafront, Frederiksted, Virgin Islands
By K. Schipper
FREDERIKSTED, Virgin Islands – This port city on St. Croix, the largest of three islands that make up the United States Virgin Islands, may have a past that dates back hundreds of years, but with the turn of the century its future was seriously in doubt.
Exotic Stone: Jewels Of The Slab
By K. Schipper
Stone always owed its mystique to its reputation as a luxury item – it’s something not everyone could afford.
Coverings 2006: April Abundance
ORLANDO, Fla. – It may just be spring for most people, but it’s high season for stone and tile at Coverings 2006 next month.