Confindustria Ceramica (the Italian Association of Ceramics) and the Italian Trade Agency are proud to announce the official call for entries for the 2020 Ceramics of Italy Tile Competition. Now in its 27th year, the competition recognizes top North American architecture and design firms and design students for their creative use of Italian ceramic and porcelain tile.

Caesarstone, the inventor of quartz surfacing, will unveil multiple new designs and products at the Kitchen & Bath Industry Show (KBIS) in Las Vegas, January 21-23, 2020, at South Hall booth SL-1202. Debuts include a whole new product category for the company: OUTDOOR.  As well as three new dark shade surfaces—BLACK TEMPAL 5810, OXIDIAN 4735, and EMPIRA BLACK 5101, all three to be shown in a new NATURAL FINISH. All of which will be on display in a sprawling and welcoming booth designed by renowned designer, Nate Berkus.

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.