Mission Stone and Tile founder and CEO, Mary Elizabeth Oropeza, has assumed a new role within Stone Source as the director of residential design and procurement nationally.
The company presented a total of 62 CEU classes in 2015, a group effort among 10 members of the Realstone team. "The CEU program is an irreplaceable tool," said Shea Quarton, territory manager for Realstone Systems.
As the result of a joint decision by the Stone+tec Trade fair’s honorary sponsors, BIV (Association of German Stonemasons) and DNV (German Natural Stone Association), the advisory board of Stone+tec and the organiser, NürnbergMesse GmbH, the next Stone+tec Trade Fair will take place in 2018.
The Keep-Nut insert from Chemical Concepts is an innovative fastener for high-strength anchoring in very hard substrates such as natural stone, composites and hard plastics, where traditional fastening methods are often difficult or impractical.
For granite, marble, all natural stones, engineered stones and quartz countertops, Weha has taken steel rodding and encapsulated it with eight-strand, premium, true-grade fiberglass and then reinforced it with carbon fiberglass.
At the start of each year, Stone World shares its fabricator purchasing plan survey with our readers, which serves as a gauge to how business will fair during the coming year.
Enthusiasm among fabricators is noted in the annual purchasing plan survey conducted by the Market Research Department at BNP Media (Stone World’s parent company).