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Peter’s Corner: when, if not now, does the natural stone sector want to put extra effort into marketing?

Low-cost countries like China have supply problems, customers value domestic materials, and the competitors’ costs are skyrocketing

ANDEER GRANITE, a green gneiss with high resistance usable in all areas of natural stone construction, from Toscano company, Switzerland

Miscellaneous: news all around natural stone

Federico Fraccaroli of Fraccaroli e Balzan Spa company was elected President of the Italian Natural Stone Association Confindustria Marmomacchine for 2022 to 2024

Türkish Marble Trend magazine (#58) names the new presidents and board members of the associations IMIB and EIB

The story of the years when Rodin‘s art was first being added to American museum collections is told in an exhibition in Williamstown, MA, until September 2022 and then in Atlanta, GA, until January 2023

In a process similar to coral reef growth, microalgae could create limestone to make cement production carbon neutral – and even carbon negative

A team of scientists led by the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder) was rewarded with a $3.2 million grant to develop the technology

Stone Insight: an Adjacent Grain Analysis (AGA) and numerous other tests were used to find a suitable white marble for the façade of Capital One Hall in Tyson, Virginia

The marble and glass façade of the Capital One Hall in Tysons, Virginia minimizes heat gain and optimizes the light penetration

The architects came from HGA (Hammel, Green and Abrahamson)

LASA BIANCO NUVOLATO FORTE®, a white marble with equally distributed grayish clouds mined above the Lasa village in the Italian Alps

Karin van Ommeren lets the colors of the stones shine in her monumental works

The Dutch artist brings the inside of the raw blocks to the outside and even works with boulders

“Hug”, “Tao”, and “Kora” are Kreoo’s freestanding washbasins or bathtubs, respectively, in natural stone combining marble with with brass, bronze, and wood

Alternative to love locks on the fence: on the island of Rügen, Germany, couples can lay a wedding stone with name engraving after the wedding ceremony

Five years guaranteed placement, extension possible, also pick up or shipping

The Natural Stone Institute (NSI) becomes an Endorsing Partner of the Hardscape North America trade fair held October 19-21, 2022, in Louisville, Kentucky

It will organize a natural stone pavilion and jury the HNA natural stone awards entries

The stone sector as a field with “excitement, fun, and a real lot of potential“

Caroline Lenner from Sweden brings innovative concepts to her father’s gravestone business after years of study and experience in many industries

CALACATTA LUX, a white Brazilian quartzite with cream and gray veins, from Vitoria Stone company headquartered in Espírito Santo state