Fatama Hasanpour serves as the company’s export manager. She is also involved in Women in Stone.

With a vision to provide resources and opportunities to recruit, retain and advance women in the stone industry, Women In Stone has created several videos to promote positions in the natural stone industry.

For those of us who sell stone, we know it's a big deal to safely handle and store materials, because the products we work with every day are heavy and dangerous. That’s why the safety of workers and visitors should always be the top priority.

Quartzite is one of the hardest natural materials that fabricators will cut for countertops. One of the biggest mistakes Andrew Geronimo, product manager with BB Industries, sees is the incorrect blade being used to make the cuts. 

Kayla Keenan, technical sales director-Midwest region for Stone Panels LLC named 2021 CEU Educator of the Year by the Natural Stone Institute

Coverings, the largest international tile and stone exhibition and conference in North America, is set to take over the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, NV, from April 5 to 8, 2022. 

For more than 30 years, Kim Dumais of Miller Druck Specialty Contracting, Inc. has dedicated herself to building a career in the stone industry, as well as assisting and educating others to help them grow.

When I attended my first StonExpo and Coverings back in the late ‘90s, there wasn’t an overwhelming number of women in the stone industry. It has been nice to see how times have evolved, and many more women are actively involved. 

Italian and Spanish porcelain tile create inviting and modern basement design.

On this month's What's New in the Shop, we're spotlighting women in the industry.