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Stoneupdate has published the data of the United States’ stone imports and exports in December 2020

The Turkish natural stone associations have been doing everything right in their design competitions lately

The right thing done by IMIB in 2020 was not to award a prize in the category of professional designers, but only honorable mentions

At the 2021 Xiamen Stone Fair, the “Habitat Design & Life Festival“ will be held for the first time

The event will present examples how to make stone an element of modern lifestyle

Showroom for the furniture company Jolor in Shanghai by Atelier tao+c

With terrazzo from top to bottom, the unreal atmosphere of a spaceship was created, in which every piece of furniture is a highlight

Stone Specialist (3/2021): Covid-19 has increased the importance of computer and IT-skills also in working with stone

Science news: the reversal of Earth’s magnetic poles, life from small organic molecules, electrical sparks on Mars, craters of gas blowouts in the Russian permafrost

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

Sculptors deal with the Covid-19 topic (1): a marble baby figure in Naples as well as a modern plague column and a stele with the distance “1.5 m“ in Germany

We took a look at what artists have been thinking about the COVID-19 19 pandemic.

CRISTALLO PINK, a glass-like quarzite with 98,5% quartz from Brazil’s state of Ceará

Animum Ludendo Coles: bouncy games for streets and squares that make the public space livable for children and parents

The designers make use of the hardness and durability of natural stone for their products

The Natural Stone Institute announces the Pinnacle Award Winners 2020

Submissions must show the “beauty, creativity, ingenuity, and professional mastery in the use of natural stone“ / Entries for the next issue open until July 20, 2021

The Swedish Natural Stone Association launches a certification for the installation of gravestones

The seal adopts the specifications of the state committee, is valid for 5 years and may be used for company advertising

Science news: Plate-tectonics in time-lapse, how rocks rusted in the Late Triassic, songs of fin whales used for imaging of the oceanic crust, ancient seashell resonates after 18,000 years

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

“Safety – a Must in extraction work“ is one of the topics in Marmomacchine magazine February 2021 (#270)

Miscellaneous: ideas around natural stone

Loughshinny is a picturesque fishing village at the Irish coast near Dublin, and it has an outstanding example of limestone chevron folds

The new Bohus granite obelisk on Slottsbacken Boulevard in Stockholm is 30 meters high and weighs 280 tons

The project set the highest standards for the industry and received the country’s Natural Stone Award 2020