Architecture news / Archive»
- Vivienda CM in Buenos Aires: travertine for the exterior walls and roof of a residential building
- The lobby of Arizona State University’s Washington Center is adorned with desert sandstone worked with CNC-cuts and sandblasting
Design news / Archive»
- Luxury design for the elevator cabin: various features against Coronavirus contagion of passengers, light shapes the box, natural stone or full-size monitors for the walls
- Salvatori shows its novelties 2020 only in the media – even without the furniture fair in Milan and Design Week
Markets: Selling Stone»
- Italian Biesse Group has published the 3. edition of its Sustainability Report
- In the BioProMarL project, researchers hope to give the stone surfaces new properties, modelled on the lotus effect
Reports from Stone Trade Fairs»
- Middle East Stone and The Big 5 in Dubai postponed to next year (2021) September 12 – 15
- Message from Xiamen Stone Fair as the Covid-19 virus is spreading in some regions in the Americas, Africa, and India: “We care much about you”
Stone Stories»
Art news / Archive»
- Application open until October 01, 2020: 10 to 15 grants for artists from or living in the Arab world, and/or engaged with the Arab world
- For young emerging Tunesian artists: the Rambourg Foundation Prize for Contemporary Art (submissions postponed to July 15, 2020)
Briefly noted»
Euroroc
Euroroc’s two new presidents: „Communication and collaboration are the key issues”
Stijn Renier and Kristof Callebaut from Belgium share their presidency for the term from 2018 to 2020
Euroroc: „Securing natural resources“ is also about keeping quarries in operation
Peter Handley is the newly appointed EU-Commissioner for sustainability / His credo is Circular Economy
London Calling: visit of Euroroc-members at the invitation of Stone Federation Great Britain
Topics were: Albion’s Portland Stone quarries, London and its stone highlights, Britain’s stone industry and its market strategies
How producers of ceramics, quartz composites, and engineered stone practice plagiarism
Protecting names such as „Marble“ or „Calacatta“ is the topic of discussions / A clean slate for the stone branch?
Euroroc: turning the ECJ judgment on „Soya Milk“ into a virtue to protect natural stone names such as „Marble“ or „Granite“
The European umbrella organization for the natural stone branch is undertaking an investigation of plagiarized product-names
Crystalline silica in stonemasons’ workshops is a major issue in many countries
In part the issue involves quartz composite materials in particular, and in part general labor protection is the topic of interest
Marketing: Using emotions to make natural stone stand out among the competing materials
„Selling Stones With Emotions“ was one of the major themes at this year’s World Stone Congress in Xiamen 2017
Euroroc-members visited the Xiamen Trade Fair
25 representatives of natural stone trade organizations accepted an invitation to China
EUROROC informs: Brussels is working on new regulations to reduce crystalline silica
For the first time, threshold values are to be regulated for all EU-countries / perforce the trade organizations accepted the limits set by the commission but hope to coordinate implementation in dialog
Euroroc News (2/16): new definitions for 25.15, 25.16 etc; Crystalline Silica; Smart CE-marking
Latest news about important topics for the stone sector which are being discussed in Brussels
