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Marlena Senne has won the SwissSkills competition for stonemasons and will represent her country at the EuroSkills in St. Petersburg in 2023

The master craftswoman with a soft spot for historic preservation loves about her profession that she “can create something great out of stone every day“

Online visit at Xiamen Stone Fair 2021: finally the feeling of a trade fair and business again

The live walking tours in English offer virtual stops at exhibitors’ booths

The Aqueduct of Constantinople: how the longest water channel of the ancient world was managed

Double water channels may have been used to maintain the system while enabling constant operation

Miscellaneous: ideas around natural stone

China has landed a rover on Mars with scientific instruments to get information about the planet’s geological structure

KÁRIUS, a marble from Brazil’s state of Ceará with an extremely thin, compact mass and an easy-to-reach-translucency, quarried by Head Mineração

“Marmomac Talks“ live digital event from 24-27 May 2021: to discuss the trend topics of the stone sector with expert lectures and in dialogue with the audience

Ticket prices have been reduced from € 49 to € 29 for the full 4 days

Natural Stone Institute Completes 35th Home with Gary Sinise Foundation

“Vico Magistretti. A Milanese Architect“ is the one of the topics in the May issue of the Salone del Mobile magazine 2021

A ceramics manufacturer from Sweden has registered the name of a limestone with the EU for its product

Until now, the motto in the country has been live-and-let-live, but the company is moving into dangerous territory with its “Granitkeramik“ trademark

Chen Guoqing: “In China, natural stone for the private home is not so popular as in the West, and we are fighting a lack of professional stonemasons and installers“

Interview with the President of the Chinese Stone Association (CSMA) with a preview of the Stone Forum at Xiamen Stone Fair (May 18 – 21, 2021)

The Thai company Stone & Roses received one of the Natural Stone Institute’s Pinnacle Awards for its new “Texture D“

The exclusive Tenko Omakase restaurant in Bangkok’s Pullman Hotel has it as fassade cladding

Stone Insight: “Texture D“, a new stone surface expressing the ambivalent character of the material and playing with the light like a sculpture

Africa Wealth Report 2021 – the wealthiest countries and cities in Africa

The study by AfrAsia Bank and New World Wealth market researchers examines the continent for trends by the rich, in luxury and management of assets

The 2020 figures for Italy’s exports of natural stone are dire (-17,3 %) and continue the trend of recent years

Decline also in exports of technology, but this is solely due to the Covid 19 pandemic

on form sales exhibition for stone sculptures open on-site at Asthall Manor and virtually until May 31, 2021