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Former Spanish Grabasa company gets a new lease on life by German owned Piedra CyP (Piedra Canteras y Produccion S.L.)
The company will focus on super-thin stone panels in big sizes
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Pietra Naturale Autentica is a network by companies of the Italian stone sector. It counts 50 members, according to the webpage titled „Stone is Better“
Candidacies for the next Global Stone Congress can be submitted until July 30, 2019
Any country may offer to be the host of this scientific event about research and development for the worldwide stone sector in 2021
„Homer“ in the museum LouvreLens until July 2, 2019
The exhibition investigates what we know about the Greek poet and how his works inspired other artists from antiquity to the present
Miscellaneous: ideas with natural stone
Sand sculptures are made only for a few months, yet they may reach big shapes. In the Northern hemisphere, the season has begun
„Printemps de la Pierre“ (Stone Spring) at the Massif Central in France until June 30, 2019
Promotion of local stone and stonemasons’ culture / Focus on Drystone Walling
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This year’s Xiamen Stone Fair saw again the Lundhs Soccer Cup on the late afternoon of the 2nd day when international stone-teams competed on the fairground
Free Webinar how to protect workers in the stone industry from crystalline silica dust
The online learning will describe the danger of silicosis and outline requirements to comply with OSHA’s rules
Connecting the deserts in the American West to space, time and light: „Roden Crater“, „City“ and „Star Axis“
Artists are realizing life-time projects to let guests make new experiences, one day
Megalith tombs were family graves in European Stone Age
An international team of scientists collected human remains of 24 individuals from sites in Ireland, Scotland and the Baltic island of Gotland, Sweden
Miscellaneous: ideas with natural stone
Kofferanhänger aus Marmor sind das neueste Produkt der Firma Mikol Marmi
New questions: which role do the very deep ocean waters play in climate change?
Whereas most of the Pacific is responding to modern warming, the ocean under 2000 m depth may be cooling due to waters from the Little Ice Age
Geologists discover the biggest and oldest strewn field of craters on Earth in the Rocky Mountains
Fields of caters are remnants of pieces of small iron asteroids which broke apart in the Earth’s atmosphere / Impact 280 million years ago
The stonemasonry school of Brač in the Croatian Adria celebrates its 110th anniversary this year
A congress discusses current questions in the natural stone branch and hopes to increase attractiveness of the profession
The European Stone Festival 2019 will take place in Trondheim, Norway from June 21 to 23
One task in the competition will be to carve stone elements for the design of a City Square