Marble Floor Dropping Out?
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...
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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...
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...
Church Caving In to Quarry Work?
FABIANA, Italy – A millennium-old marble-laden church in this Tuscan village may be in danger of collapse because of … marble quarrying. United Press International reports that the Pieve della Cappella is showing a...
Company Briefs – March 2006
• Custom® Building Products opens a new, 112,000 ft² state-of-the-art manufacturing plant in Las Vegas to serve the Arizona, Nevada and Utah markets. It’s the 11th U.S. manufacturing facility for the Seal Beach, Calif.-based...
Idaho Quarry Sale Scotched Again
CLAYTON, Idaho – Plans to sell federal land at the site of a stone quarry near here apparently failed again earlier this year. The Challis Messenger reports that U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho) declined...
People – March 2006
• Dal-Tile Corp. promotes Harold G. Turk to president, replacing Chris Wellborn, who is now chief operating officer of Mohawk Industries, Dal-Tile’s parent company. Turk, who joined Dal-Tile 30 years ago, previously served as...
A Gentle Case of Love in Vein
RICHMOND, Va. – A marble wall at a mausoleum here is giving comfort to a widower who believes he can see his late wife’s image … in the stone. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that...
Passings: Homer W. Weller
Homer W. Weller, 75, founder of Rolling Rock Building Stone Inc., passed away January 31 at Philadelphia’s Graduate Hospital as a result of a battle with an acute form of leukemia diagnosed only three...
Passings: Fred B. Powers Jr.
Fred B. Powers Jr., 72, former chairman and president of Powers Fasteners Inc., passed away on Dec. 20. A native of Bronx, N.Y., Powers entered the business in 1958 with The Rawlplug Co., a...