“Why natural stone remains a timeless and flexible option for many interior applications including countertops and flooring,“ is the new topic on the Use Natural Stone webpage by the US-Natural Stone Institute

For the 4th time, Marble Izmir Fair organized its “Young Creative Ideas Platform“, a competition for young designers for innovative product ideas with natural stone

For the first time product design: “The Gaze Beyond“ is the title of Antolini’s capsule collection of marble tableware created by designer Alessandro La Spada

Irish Green is the material in focus but other stones are available on request

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

New in our Stone Finder: 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 detail: 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