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The Swedish Natural Stone Award 2021 went to the copy of the medieval window rosette in Linköping Cathedral with 300 hours of work by a CNC machine

The prize is awarded for work that stands out for “aesthetics, sustainability and innovation“

CAFE LATTE DARK, a beige/bown marble (limestone) from Turkish Silkarstone company

Sustainability is one of the topics in imm Cologne fair’s magazine where under TRENDimmPACT the future of home living is to be discussed

With the Gargash Mosque in Dubai, Saudi architect Sumaya Dabbagh has created a place of worship that breaks with many traditions

Not splendor and wealth characterize the premises for the conversation with God, but light and spirituality

Xiamen Stone Fair 2022 has launched a new Hosted Buyers Program to bring together suppliers and decision-makers both in-person during the event and virtually all year in the event’s Cloud

NSI Announces Recipients of the 2021 Natural Stone Scholarship and Women in Stone Empowerment Scholarship

Euroroc’s General Assembly 2021 was held at Marmomac on October 01

President Hermann Graser: “We are better prepared for the challenges of climate protection, sustainable production methods and competition among building materials than we were a few years ago“

Miscellaneous: ideas all around natural stone

Nasa-scientists found evidence that a region of northern Mars called Arabia Terra experienced thousands of “super eruptions“

Traces of Solar flares in sediments under ancient towns are chronicles of the trade hundreds of years ago

Researchers have re-dated Viking-age commerce connections with regions in North Atlantic Norway, Frankish Western Europe and even the Middle East

Peter’s Corner: the prospects for the natural stone sector for 2022 are good, but it should have its own achievements in terms of “green“, not just profit from the material itself

MISTRAL, a light cream marble with irregular veins and high resilience from Spanish Levantina group

The ceramic industry is under extreme pressure due to energy prices

The manufacturers of artificial stones are also likely to be affected, because they use heat and pressure for production

Turkish Stone World (issue #112) reports about the ruins of Blaundos, the so called Turkey’s Stonehenge

“Use Natural Stone,“ a web page by the Natural Stone Institute (NSI), has a series of reports about stone cleaning

Looking back at Marmomac 2021 with “Tavoli d’Autore”, curated by ADI designers and architects from Veneto Trentino Alto Adige: “Stone Is A Witness Of Time“