Stone Services Group (SSG) is excited to announce that it has partnered with Granite Gold Inc. to market and sell its unique Granite Gold® Countertop Protection Plan.  The plan is sold nationally through fabricators and gives consumers the confidence that accidental damage to their countertops will be fixed at no additional cost for a period of five years and is backed by a well-known national brand in Granite Gold.

The Tenax Ceramic razor blades are ideal for quartz stone materials, as well as all other stone.

Ignite Consulting Group taps SSG to bring revolutionary product to countertop fabricator shops of all sizes

The Natural Stone Institute will be holding a Wine & Stone session at KBIS next week at 3 p.m. on January 22 in room N229.

The speakers will be Dacia Woodworth, architect & design community liaison for the Natural Stone Institute and Evan Cohen, president and CEO of Quality Marble & Granite.

Neolith will once again be exhibiting at IMM Cologneat Koelnmesse, Messeplatz 1 Mülheim, 50679 Köln, Germany (13-19 January 2020) in Hall 4.2 on Stand D041 and C040.

The Vitória Stone Fair | Marmomac Latin America is scheduled for February 11 to 14, 2020 in Espírito Santo, Brazil. The international stone exhibition brings together major extraction and processing companies of natural stone, equipment and machinery, and other technologies from all over the world.

The Braxton-Bragg 2020 catalog is here with hundreds of exciting new products.  One of the newest product lines featured in the catalog is the Viper Venom turbo line of blades for cutting granite, quartzite and other materials.

Walker Zanger, the leading stone and tile design resource in North America, brings an age-old Italian tradition to their already-impressive catalog of tiles with the new Cotto Toscano collection. Made in Tuscany, each terra cotta tile is hand-crafted and inspired by Italy’s adoration of espresso, the rare, rich color gives the collection a rustic, sophisticated allure.

Three scholarship recipients will be recognized during the Natural Stone Institute Awards Ceremony at TISE on January 28. Cody Pfeiffer (Genesee Cut Stone & Marble) and Nadia Grogan (Fraserview Masonry) will be recognized as recipients of the 2019 Natural Stone Scholarship, and Jennifer Burlak (NorthWoods Granite) will be recognized as the recipient of the 2019 Women in Stone Empowerment Scholarship.

Brothers in Granite - natural stone producers and exporters - are launching their “Visit Brazil in 2020” program.  The goal is to give the opportunity for US and Canadian fabricators to travel to Brazil at no cost to themselves.  Brothers will cover airfare, hotel, and ground transportation and fabricators will have a complete experience direct at the source.