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Apprentices in horticulture and landscaping learned the know-how for dry-stone walling and also the ability to work in a team

The walls once played an important role in the pastures on the slopes and are evidence of the culture

BLUE STONE OF HAINAULT (Pierre Bleue de Belgique), the famous Belgian limestone appropriate for almost every application, quarried by Carrières du Hainaut company

After 2 years of booming demand, France’s stone sector is facing a certain “slowdown“, according to the editorial in Pierre Actual (10/2022)

What a terrific product idea: tombstones for pets are on display at Marmomac as part of the “Etica Litica“ (stone ethics) project

In Hall 10, the new “Plus Theatre“ wants to tie in with the “Italian Stone Theatre“ of recent years and be a playground for natural stone ideas

Michael Heizer’s “City“, a vast complex of shaped mounds and depressions made of compacted dirt, rock, and concrete, is open to the public now

Portugal also saw strong increases in its natural stone exports in 2021 compared to the previous year (by value: +17.62%), although this is only +1.89% compared to the last pre-Covid year 2019

Venue for the 2023 EuroSkills from September 05 to 09 will be Gdańsk in Poland

The vocational competition’s umbrella organization withdrew the event from the original host St. Petersburg as a city in Putin’s Russia

Notre-Dame de Paris: the approximately 1000 cubic meters of limestone needed for the reconstruction are to come from 9 quarries

Suppliers are quarries from the area of Saint-Maximin (Oise) et Soissons (Aisne), located in the basin Lutétien

Very hard and resistant Belgian sandstone GRÈS DU BOIS D’ANTHISNES with many color variations, quarried by Carrière GBA company

Swedish magazine „Sten“ (3/2022) reports on the fire at the Vildmannen building in Stockhom’s city and the restoration of the historic stone façade