Once again, a select group of members from the Stone Fabricator’s Alliance (SFA) headed to Italy this past March to visit many of the leading stone producers and manufacturers of tooling and machinery.

Extracting more than 2.2 million cubic meters of material annually from over a dozen quarries, Levantina of Alicante, Novelda, Spain, is an immense stone producer with locations worldwide.

In 2000, after spending 12 years as an engineer, Dan Hickey saw a chance to start his own granite fabrication company, known today as Natural Stone Creations, Inc. of Franklin, IN.

With nearly 50 years of experience in the stone business, Vereinigte Marmorwerke (VM) Kaldorf GMBH of Titting-Kaldorf, Germany, has built a reputation as a quality producer of Jura limestone.

The product is designed for cutting granite, marble, engineered stone and other hard natural stone.

This Stone of the Month is supplied by Antolini Luigi of Verona, Italy.

The Sarasota, FL, facility is staffed with Comandulli certified technicians to reduce downtime and improve production for its North American clients.

MSI's expansion includes a new 350,000-square-foot distribution center offering an extensive selection of MSI's entire product lines of natural stone, quartz and porcelain.

The three designs are inspired by the urban and natural landscapes of Italy.

The 18 designs in this collection are hand crafted in natural stone, Serenity glass, shell, ceramic and aluminum, and are available in different material combinations.