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%.

Edgar Bautista joins BB Industries as outside sales consultant in the Los Angeles, CA area. He was previously a sales representative at GranQuartz for more than four years, after earning his stripes in the warehouse at Pearl Abrasive. Bautista will cover Los Angeles and Orange County. 

Material Bank, the world’s largest marketplace for architectural, design, and construction materials, announced it has secured $175 million in Series D funding led by Brookfield’s technology investment arm Brookfield Growth, with participation from additional strategic partners Fifth Wall, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, and RXR. This significant raise brings the company’s total funding to more than $325 million. 

The official launch of Planitop® 3D construction ink/mortar and the strategic partnership between MAPEI Corporation and Black Buffalo 3D was announced at the future site of the first 3D-printed homes in Virginia by Alquist 3D. 
 

LuxeHome, the world’s largest collection of premier boutiques for home building and renovation, located on the first floor of the Merchandise Mart in downtown Chicago, welcomes Vadara Quartz Distributed by UGM Surfaces to its Design Resource Center (Suite 163).

StoneLoads has announced the national launch of its online natural stone marketplace, which can be found at StoneLoads.com.

Patti Smith-Connelly, a tile industry veteran, has been appointed by Portobello America as the company’s Commercial Sales Manager.