The Kitchen & Bath Industry Show (KBIS) today announced the product finalists for the 2021 Best of KBIS Awards. Regarded as one of the industry’s most prestigious awards, Best of KBIS recognizes the most innovative new kitchen and bath products of the year.

The Cleveland Clinic is working with the Natural Stone Institute and its members to better understand how the engineered stone industry is approaching silica dust control, silicosis medical screen and prevention.

Launched in September 2020, Dust Hog is now building out its distribution network throughout North America to help mitigate one of the industry’s greatest challenges, dust control.

Daltile was recently named the “Tile Category Winner” of the Builder.Media 2020 Building Products Brand Survey. 

A paradoxically cool glass tile line, Island Stone’s Lava Glass mosaics incorporate iridescent and undulating surfaces that play with light in water. The shimmery, wetscapes look is sensual and inviting, ideal for pools, showers, and other water and water-adjacent applications. The fused glass tile features durable back paint applied at over 1,025 degrees Fahrenheit, giving the tiles a brilliant, pearlescent color spanning the light and dark tones of each across a single mosaic.

Vadara Quartz Surfaces (Vadara), a world class manufacturer of premium quartz surfaces, has added to its lineup six new fashion-forward color options. The new hues will make their debut at the 2021 Kitchen & Bath Industry Show (KBIS Virtual) in February.

Weha Rock Dog Router Single Speed with Aquaplaning base for Granite, Marble, Quartz, Quartzite, Stone

Registration is open until February 26, 2021 for the Women in Stone (WIS) Mentorship program, which was established in 2015 and has led hundreds of women through a unique learning experience designed to help build confidence and advance their careers. Participants are paired based on their experience and goals, which are collected through a registration form. They meet for one hour per month throughout the six-month program. No travel is required.  

Already offering an unrivaled breadth and depth of products, the Daltile brand is now making it even easier to find the perfect product.  Daltile’s recently launched ColorMatch is a special order, custom color, glazed ceramic wall tile program.

With heavy hearts and sadness, we share with you that Leon Zanger, one of the founders of the storied American stone and tile design resource, Walker Zanger, has died at the age of 93 due to complications of COVID-19.