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The Natural Stone Institute’s updated “Silica & Slab Safety Certificate” online learning is focussed on preventing silicosis, safe slab handling, and creating a safety program

In Sweden, the Natural Stone Association is fletching its teeth at fakes from the ceramics industry

Tile companies there have marketed their products under local natural stone names / Also “Jura” is used as fake

In the context of climate protection, old solid (massive) construction with ornamental stone is being rediscovered from a modern perspective

It will establish itself alongside the currently common cladding with panels for facades or tiles for floors and walls, not replace it

RIVERDANCE, an exotic marble with chocolate and white veins, very suitable for luxury design, quarried by Stonewhite company in China’s northeast

Stoneupdate magazine reports about the U.S. imports of natural stone and other hard-surfaces in November 2023 compared to previous periods

Miscellaneous: news all around ornamental stone and rock

VISA-free entries to China are possible for citizens from France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and Malaysia, Xiamen Stone Fair informs

How do you incorporate a café serving food and drink in a nearly 1,000-year-old cathedral?

The architects at Feilden Fowles gave the new building a bit of an open-and-close drawer feel to the historic setting

Researchers at ETH Zurich teach a computer-controlled excavator the basic steps required to erect a simple drystone wall from thick boulders

World-renowned marble NORWEGIAN ROSE, used in luxury resorts and residences worldwide, quarried north of the polar circle by Fauske marble by Moser company

In the GKE House, Turkish architect Ali Can Helvacioglu designs a modern house with a tradional stone shell, as described in IMIB association’s magazine Natura (#64)