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Pierre Actual #1003 reports about construction with solid (massive) stone, a special feature in France

Polycor Announces Plans to be Carbon Neutral by 2025

The Canada based stone company “aims to revolutionize the manufacturing industry with leadership on decarbonization“

Natural Stone Institute Introduces New CEU Course entitled “Natural Stone Principles”

Stoneupdate has published the data of the United States’ stone imports and exports in March 2021

The Oscar ceremony 2021 took place in Los Angeles in a train station with striking natural stone décor

Unlike other cathedrals of transportation, at Union Station, marble and other stone varieties only accentuate, show less opulence and wealth

Studio Apostoli’s interior design for the Lefay Resort & SPA Dolomiti: based on a reinterpretation of traditional architecture and with local materials such as wood and stone

Two new members at the Natural Stone Institute’s Board: Blake Christensen and Amit Gupta

If somewhere a boulder seems to be floating in the air, Hannes Ludescher is probably behind it

The Austrian artist knots hollow bodies from twigs, which he covers with flexible paper and paints them to look like boulders or stone

Opera Contemporary’s new products: wood as protagonist with a selection of noble materials including marble, leather and metal

Bathroom design with Zebrino Gold, a marble with straight lines and colorful stripes

One of the peculiarities of this natural stone is also that it can be obtained in slabs of maximum length 310 cm x width 90 cm

Apuo Versilia Produce’s magazine (#122) has „Economia Circulare“ (Circular Economy) in the focus (Italian)

Science news: oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere, 5000 t of space dust per year, neolitic grave goods show gendered roles for farmers, emerald production in Roman Egypt

Recent discoveries about our planet, its rocks, and other “stone” topics

France’s stone sector presents a study on the life cycle assessment (LCA) of gravestones

Objects were compared with stone from France and China, and , not surprisingly, the domestic products performed better

Granite LENNON with the typical crystals of quartz, feldspar, and mica evocatively reflecting on the surface, from Levantina

Miscellaneous: ideas around natural stone

Stripes of light granite structure the main street in the Swiss town of Liestal, whose redesign was awarded the main Flaneur d’Or prize by the Initiative Fussverkehr (Pedestrian Trafic).