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More “focus on the customer and his desires than on technology and stone types” is what Sweden’s largest kitchen furnisher wants from the stone sector (“Sten“ magazine, 1/2023, Swedish)

Miscellaneous: news all around natural stone and rock

In 2022, British archaeologist Timothy Darvill came out with the sensational thesis that Stonehenge was a precise annual calendar, from which the exact dates for the days could be read

Design with natural stone as part of Milan Design Week 2023 from April 17 to 26 (2)

At the fair and in the city center, international companies and initiatives present their latest collection and projects

Design with natural stone as part of the Milan Design Week 2023 from April 17 to 26 (1)

In the city center, international initiatives and creatives present their latest collections and projects

EPDs for beginners: Sarah B Gregg from the Natural Stone Institute (NSI) explains what it is all about and why it is so important for stone companies

CRISTALLO, a super exotic white quartzite from Brazil, with delicate veins and a glassy appearance, quarried by Vitoria Stone group

Turkish Marble Trend magazine (#61) comments on the country’s decline in raw block exports by 18% in 2022 and concludes: “Somehow, you will always survive”

Douglas Goshomi is a representative of a new generation of artists from Zimbabwe, who take up the traditions of the country, but go new ways

Natural stone is his material, because he finds it everywhere

Australia’s chain of continental hotspot volcanoes is a unique laboratory for researchers to investigate processes leading to eruptions all over the globe

Erosion over tens of millions of years allows scientists to understand complete sequences of lava formation

Miscellaneous: news all around natural stone and rock

A United States Geological Survey webpage gives details on the Kahramanmaraş Earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria on February 06, 2023, with a magnitude of around 7.5