HOLLIS, N.H. – A year-long intense study of quarry and processing operations recently enabled The Natural Stone Council (NSC) to identify the industry’s best practices, as well as better define areas of focus to establish natural stone’s environmental profile.
If you want to understand the need for good handworkers in your shop, you don’t have to look any further than a nice map analogy.
DALLAS – The relationship between StonExpo and Marmomacc got stronger in early July with a new strategic alliance – and a new name for the U.S. stone industry’s show. The October event in Las...
By K. Schipper
HOUSTON – Put an artisan who worked on a cathedral in 1008 in a time machine and bring him to the present, and there’d be a lot to surprise him – starting with the ability to complete the job in a couple years rather than decades, or even longer.
By K. Schipper
Go strictly by the amount of natural stone not coming into this country, or the decline in new housing sales, or a myriad of other national economic indicators, and it’s easy to believe the industry is gasping for air.
In the past few months, it’s not hard to think … no, worry … no, reach for the bottle, whether it’s aspirin or a tastier painkiller, when it comes to the state of the stone trade today. There’s the economy, the deadly last lunges of collapsing cut-rate competitors, foreign exchange rates that spin as fast as the price register at the gas pump and, well, The New York Times.
By Jake Rishavy
NEENAH, Wis. – When the owners of Marble and Granite Specialists met in 2001, they found common ground: a sense of delivering better, more-consistent work than some area customers received at the time.
It couldn’t last forever.
CLEVELAND – The Marble Institute of America (MIA) is asking U.S. wholesale natural-stone-slab distributor to participate in a groundbreaking distributor-only benchmarking survey.
The following are U.S.-based companies and offices actively selling quartz-surface material.