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Boxbay provides enormous acceleration for stacking and handling containers in the port
The joint venture of the German SMS group and DP World from Dubai has a high-bay warehouse at its core, with direct access to each individual transport box
The Gendarmenmarkt square in the heart of Berlin is to be renovated
The EU-wide tender is open until January 21, 2021 / The listed natural stone paving shall be renewed
The Swedish Stone Association (Sveriges Stenindustriförbund) holds a competition in product design with students from Malmö University
The aim is to discover new markets and to “show that really everything can be made of stone,” says the chairman of the organization
The new PetroPhysical Property Database (P3) is a register that provides information about the properties of rock strata
The new tool may help locate the right sites for hydrogen storage or thermal water deposits, for example
Emmanuel Babled: Exceptional shapes for furniture in which natural stone plays an important role
The Portuguese designer combines striking design ideas with the art of the craftsmen / Available only as Limited Edition
The Bauhüttenwesen, which is the ancient craftspeople’s tradition of cooperation and know-how sharing in construction projects, is added to the Unesco List of Intangible Cultural Heritage
Still today, e.g., stonemasons working on the maintenance of cathedrals built supra-regional networks to preserve, transmit and develop techniques and knowledge
China’s robotic spacecraft Chang’e 5 returned from the moon with 2 kg of lunar dust and soil
The basaltic lunar mare material is about 1,21 billion years old, much younger than the probes from the Apollo missions with between 3.1 and 4.4 billion years
Proceedings of the congress “Monument Future – Decay and Conservation of Stone”: when the outside world harms the stone’s inner life and destroys its durability
The more than 200 lectures in short version reflect the current state of research on the preservation of important testimonies from ancient cultures worldwide
Berlin’s Humboldt Forum in the new palace in the city center is completed and can be visited virtually until its final opening
During the past years, the new building was probably the largest natural stone construction site in Europe with 9000 m³ of sandstone and limestone from Germany and Poland
Micellaneous: ideas around natural stone
Red Dholpur sandstone from Rajasthan will be the primary façade material for India’s new tringle-shaped parliament building in Delhi. Prime minister Modi has laid the foundation stone on December 09, 2020