Features : Specially designed bond matrix with high quality diamonds
Benefits : Fastest cutting, Very smooth, minimal chipping, longest life, cost-effective
Application : Granite, engineered Stone

There are 8 days left to submit a project for the Natural Stone Institute’s 2022 Pinnacle Awards competition. Industry members are encouraged to submit their projects.

The Natural Stone Institute is thrilled to announce that the newest version of the Dimension Stone Design Manual is now available. Dimension Stone Design Manual 2022 is available for download or hard copy purchase.

Shaw Industries Group Inc. (Shaw) has announced the list of 10 organizations it will showcase in its third annual sustain[HUMAN]ability Leadership Recognition Program. Each of the organizations has illustrated a commitment to putting people at the heart of its sustainability efforts.

Birch Hill Equity Partners and Investissement Québec announced today that they have acquired Polycor Inc. in partnership with the company’s management from TorQuest Partners and its co-investors, Wynnchurch Capital, and PNC Mezzanine Capital. Polycor is the largest quarrier of natural stone in the world. The transaction, which closed on April 29, 2022, will support the continued growth of Polycor in Québec and across its global operations.

The CityLife series from Arizona Tile is an Italian-made rectified color body porcelain tile available in four neutral colors and four sizes. Created using digital print technology, it offers an organic aesthetic to your environment with soft patterning and subtle veining featured across the surface of each color.

Contemporary Stone & Tile Design showcases some of the newest product introductions, which have launched this spring.

Mapei Corporation, manufacturer of construction materials for the building industry, and Black Buffalo 3D Corporation, a provider of large-scale 3D construction printers, have announced a strategic, research, development and manufacturing partnership for the 3D construction-printing industry. 

Net sales increased 31.5% from the first quarter of fiscal 2021 and comparable store sales increased 14.3%.