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Cleaning letters on a memorial

Join Cliveden Conservation at St Bride's Church in Fleet Street, London, for interactive conservation workshops in April.

Stone Heritage

Book your place on the Wren300 interactive conservation workshops in London

25 March 2023, by Eric Bignell
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Steven Tyson injured when wall collapsed on him

Steven Tyson suffered multiple broken bones, including a fractured skull, when a wall collapsed on him during a barn conversion.

Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental

Wall collapse during stone barn conversion leaves man deaf in one ear and blind in one eye

23 March 2023, by Eric Bignell
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AF Jones Director Ken Jones

AF Jones Director Ken Jones presents the first video in the 'knowledge hub' on the company's new stone interiors website.

Natural / Engineered Stone Company News

AF Jones launches interiors website with 'knowledge hub' videos

18 March 2023, by Eric Bignell
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A man has died in an incident involving machinery at Scottish stone company Tradstocks' premises in Five Sisters Business Park, West Calder.

Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental

Man dies in incident at Tradstocks in Scotland

18 March 2023, by Eric Bignell
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Letter from Jon Prichard, Chief Executive of the MPA

Jon Prichard, Chief Executive of the Mineral Products Association, has written to Kemi Badenoch, Secretary of State for the Department for Business & Trade, stating that if the UK does not extend GIs beyond food and drink in line with Europe "our market would become a more appealing target for companies seeking to import cheap imitations". 

Legislation / Standards

MPA Chief Executive writes to Secretary of State in support of Geographic Indication (GI)

17 March 2023, by Eric Bignell
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Sam Thistlethwaite

Sam Thistlethwaite on Zoom providing an update on the NPPF and Design Codes. He said the stone industry needs to be clearer about the carbon benefits of using local stones and present more information about it.

Legislation / Standards

Stone Federation update on planning: Design Codes should benefit local stones

16 March 2023, by Eric Bignell
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Editor's Picks

  • Training
    Natural Stone Industry Training Group

    Training: Could you benefit from apprenticeship training schemes?

    2023-02-26
  • Stone Heritage
    Beatrice Searle with her 'Orkney Boat'

    Books: Stone Will Answer, by Beatrice Searle

    2023-02-09
  • Market Intelligence
    Cosentino's headquarters in Spain

    Cosentino owner gets suspended prison sentence for not providing sufficient warning of the risk of processing Silestone

    2023-02-08
  • Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental
    Improving Silicosis Outcomes in the UK

    Updated Parliamentary report calls for silicosis to return to being a notifiable disease

    2023-01-10
  • Stone Heritage
    Cleaning letters on a memorial

    Book your place on the Wren300 interactive conservation workshops in London

    2023-03-25
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  • Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental
    Steven Tyson injured when wall collapsed on him

    Wall collapse during stone barn conversion leaves man deaf in one ear and blind in one eye

    2023-03-23
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  • Natural / Engineered Stone Company News
    AF Jones Director Ken Jones

    AF Jones launches interiors website with 'knowledge hub' videos

    2023-03-18
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  • Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental

    Man dies in incident at Tradstocks in Scotland

    2023-03-18
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  • Legislation / Standards
    Letter from Jon Prichard, Chief Executive of the MPA

    MPA Chief Executive writes to Secretary of State in support of Geographic Indication (GI)

    2023-03-17
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  • Legislation / Standards
    Sam Thistlethwaite

    Stone Federation update on planning: Design Codes should benefit local stones

    2023-03-16
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  • Natural / Engineered Stone Company News
    Marshalls products

    Marshalls profits down but sales up following Marley purchase

    2023-03-16
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  • Market Intelligence
    Visas and immigration

    Masons added to skills shortage categories that can recruit from abroad

    2023-03-15
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  • Market Intelligence
    Guardian website

    Developers ordered to rebuild sandstone pub they demolished

    2023-03-10
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  • Training
    Launch of WINS' mentoring programme at The Building Society in London

    WINS launches mentoring programme on International Women’s Day

    2023-03-09
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  • Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental
    Kay Rozouki

    Women who want to work in construction should give it a go, says DBR Assistant Project Manager Kay Rizouki on International Women's Day

    2023-03-08
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  • Legislation / Standards
    Ann Gray, RICS President

    Have your say as RICS aims for a universal carbon assessment standard

    2023-03-07
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  • Stone Heritage
    Harry Mount leading a walking tour of Wren’s City Churches

    Wren300 sees 51 Wren churches mark the architect's tercentenary

    2023-03-06
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  • Legislation / Standards
    Testing stone

    ASTM invites stone companies to contribute to new freeze-thaw test standard

    2023-02-28
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  • Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental
    Worktop fabrication

    Australia moves a step closer to restricting the use of quartz

    2023-02-28
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  • Natural / Engineered Stone Company News
    Patrick Perus

    Polycor bids for the rest of French quarry company Rocamat

    2023-02-27
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  • Training
    Natural Stone Industry Training Group

    Training: Could you benefit from apprenticeship training schemes?

    2023-02-26
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  • Market Intelligence
    Robert Merry

    The Merry Month: Robert Merry answers a call from ‘Our Future Health’

    2023-02-26
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  • Events
    Joe Simpson

    Cevisama: will this week’s exhibition be a new beginning or the end of an era, wonders Joe Simpson

    2023-02-23
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  • Events
    the Natural Stone Show in London 6-8 June

    It’s back! And it’s looking good

    2023-02-20
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  • Stone Heritage
    The Ocean Stone is unveiled

    New sculpture on Portland highlights man’s violation of the sea

    2023-02-17
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  • Natural / Engineered Stone Company News
    Stone Cladding Systems partners with Hilti

    Stone Cladding Systems partners Hilti for complete, warranted natural stone rainscreens

    2023-02-15
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  • Market Intelligence
    Stone Specialist Logo

    Cracking the Coade

    2023-02-15
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  • Stone Projects
    Wembley Park London

    Stone in the landscape: THE WEMBLEY PARK PROJECT

    2023-02-12
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  • Stone Projects

    Stone in the Landscape: FOREST PENNANT TRANSFORMS CITY SQUARE

    2023-02-12
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  • Natural / Engineered Stone Company News
    Dave Stanger and Chris Frankland, the Directors of Tectonix

    STONE IN THE LANDSCAPE: Tectonix – a new name in stone for landscaping

    2023-02-12
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  • Market Intelligence
    Marshalls hard landscaping products at Wembley Park

    STONE IN THE LANDSCAPE: Time to take SuDS seriously

    2023-02-12
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  • Events
    At the opening ceremony of the Vitoria Stone Fair in Brazil

    Brazil's Vitoria Stone Fair takes its place among the world's top stone shows

    2023-02-11
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  • Market Intelligence
    Adam Reuvany, Sales Manager of BloomStones London

    Brief in counters: David Coster talks to Adam Reuvany of Bloomstones

    2023-02-10
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  • Stone Heritage
    Beatrice Searle with her 'Orkney Boat'

    Books: Stone Will Answer, by Beatrice Searle

    2023-02-09
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  • Natural / Engineered Stone Company News
    Ffestiniog Wesl Slate

    Ffestiniog Welsh Slate is back in production

    2023-02-08
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  • Market Intelligence
    Cosentino's headquarters in Spain

    Cosentino owner gets suspended prison sentence for not providing sufficient warning of the risk of processing Silestone

    2023-02-08
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  • Stone Heritage
    DBR supports QEST Scholarships

    DBR launches three-year support of QEST Scholarships

    2023-02-06
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  • Natural / Engineered Stone Company News
    Marmo Macchine International

    Stone Equipment International gets international coverage as it saves the day for DIY SOS Children in Need Big Build

    2023-02-02
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  • Training
    Levying Up: Delivering Sustainable Skills

    Report: don't cut funding for Level 2 apprenticeships like the Stone Trailblazer

    2023-01-30
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  • Training

    Two openings for free C&G Professional Recognition Awards

    2023-01-30
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  • Market Intelligence
    WFF on silica dust

    WFF gets the low down on silica dust

    2023-01-24
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  • Market Intelligence
    Historic Environment Scotland

    Have your say as Historic Environment Scotland surveys the stone industry

    2023-01-18
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  • Sustainability
    Mission Zero

    Don’t see cutting carbon as a cost but as an historic opportunity to make money, says Chris Skidmore in Mission Zero

    2023-01-13
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  • Legislation / Standards
    CSCS card app

    Have you got the CSCS card Smart Check app yet?

    2023-01-11
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  • Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental
    Dry cutting stone creates a lot of dust

    Stonemason housebound by diseases from dust blames ignorance

    2023-01-10
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  • Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental
    Improving Silicosis Outcomes in the UK

    Updated Parliamentary report calls for silicosis to return to being a notifiable disease

    2023-01-10
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  • D Zambelis take on Emmedue agency

    D Zambelis takes on Emmedue agency

    2023-01-10
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  • Market Intelligence
    Jeremy Hunt

    Energy costs support reduced but help continues for another year

    2023-01-09
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  • Stone Heritage
    Heritage Lottery logo

    Tweet your contribution to join in with Heritage Treasures Day, 11 January

    2023-01-05
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  • Legislation / Standards
    Portland: home of Portland Stone

    Albion MD frustrated by government's negative response to extending geographical protection of products

    2023-01-04
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  • Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental
    Polycor makes it easier to choose low CO2 stone

    Polycor is making it easier for specifiers to cut their carbon footprint with stone

    2023-01-02
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  • Market Intelligence
    Robert Merry

    The Merry Month: Robert Merry has some tips for taking the goodwill of the festive season into the year ahead

    2022-12-21
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  • Training
    Mark Priestman

    A Qualified Workforce: Mark Priestman asks if you've got WoTT it takes for the challenges of 2023

    2022-12-20
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  • Natural / Engineered Stone Company News
    Dekton Malibu and Laguna

    Dekton introduces its SilverKoast Collection

    2022-12-20
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  • Market Intelligence
    Wall callendars

    Wall calendars for 2023

    2022-12-19
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  • Market Intelligence
    Salvatore Caruso

    Brief in counters: David Coster talks with Salvatore Caruso

    2022-12-18
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  • Stone Heritage
    Medieval Bishops Palace Lincoln

    HERITAGE: conserving the ruins of a Medieval Bishops’ Palace

    2022-12-16
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  • Market Intelligence
    Covid virus

    40,000 construction companies default on Covid bounce back loans

    2022-12-16
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  • Market Intelligence
    Joe Simpson

    Comment: 2022 was a year of unparalleled upheaval, says Joe Simpson

    2022-12-15
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  • Market Intelligence
    UKCA marking delayed

    UKCA mark postponed to 2025

    2022-12-12
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  • Stone Heritage
    Adrian Attwood

    Comment: Adrian Attwood from DBR talks about helping the existing built heritage cope with climate change

    2022-12-08
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  • Market Intelligence
    1 Derby Gate

    STONE CLEANING: Cleaned stone makes the best case for stone cleaning

    2022-12-08
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  • Stone Awards / Competitions
    Stone Award winners

    Industry meets face to face again as Natural Stone Awards 2022 return to prestigious London venue

    2022-12-03
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  • Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental
    Controlling exposure to stone dust

    New from HSE: Controlling Exposure To Stone Dust

    2022-12-03
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  • Natural / Engineered Stone Company News
    Super Blanco-Gris Matt Polished

    Marble designs in MDi exclusively from CRL Stone

    2022-12-01
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  • Training
    Gordon Jenkins of CSCS

    Stone training group hears about CSCS cards after grandfather rights and providing jobs for apprentices from a training agency

    2022-11-23
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  • Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental
    Powys Teaching Health Board website

    £160,000 HAVS fine is a reminder to protect employees from exposure to vibration

    2022-11-23
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  • Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental
    Polishing the edge of a worktop

    Union in Australia calls for a ban on high-silica engineered quartz

    2022-11-23
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  • Natural / Engineered Stone Company News
    Chris Churm

    New MD of Marshalls Stone and Landscape Protection prepares for Martyn’s Law with anti-terrorist products

    2022-11-22
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  • Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental
    The Pallet Loop

    Bradfords and Tarmac go green with Loop pallet re-use trial

    2022-11-21
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  • Stone Heritage
    Bank Hall

    Welsh Slate helps country mansion leave the 'At Risk' register

    2022-11-20
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  • Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental
    Trolex wins Air Quality and Emissions Award

    Two more awards for Trolex realtime silica dust moniter

    2022-11-18
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  • Stone Awards / Competitions
    Charlie Luxton

    TV personality architect Charlie Luxton to present Stone Awards

    2022-11-18
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  • Market Intelligence
    Jeremy Hunt

    Autumn Statement completes unravelling of Kwarteng tax cuts

    2022-11-18
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  • Training
    Westminster Abbey

    Westminster Abbey joins Cathedrals Workshop Fellowship

    2022-11-17
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  • Equipment
    Andy Bell with Christian Montanari

    Stone Equipment International parts with Emmedue and concentrates on Marmo Meccanica

    2022-11-16
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  • Market Intelligence
    The statue of The Queen at York Minster

    Lepine limestone statue of The Queen unveiled by King Charles at York Minster

    2022-11-10
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  • Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental
    HSE continues to focus on RCS

    HSE warns it will prosecute as it extends its focus on silica dust

    2022-11-09
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  • Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental
    Polishing the edge of a worktop

    Warning about dust as testing firm fined

    2022-11-03
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  • Stone Awards / Competitions
    The Levine Building at Trinity College

    Bath Stone Levine Building at Trinity College Oxford receives two awards

    2022-11-02
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  • Stone Heritage
    Cliveden Lime Day

    Cliveden plans more lime days around the country following success of first at Reading Abbey Ruins

    2022-10-31
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  • Stone Heritage
    The undercroft at Priory House in Dunstable

    Renovations reveal history of medieval undercroft at Dunstable’s Priory House

    2022-10-27
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  • Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental
    HSE campaign against musculoskeletal disorders

    Share ways you have taken the strain out of working and you could be a winner

    2022-10-27
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  • Hard Surfaces
    WFF meeting October 2022

    WFF aims for blue CSCS cards and standard contracts

    2022-10-26
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  • Market Intelligence
    BMBI sales graph

    Inflation sees the value of Builders Merchant sales up while volumes fall

    2022-10-24
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  • Training
    Moulton Students at the House of Lords

    Moulton stonemasonry students show their work at the House of Lords

    2022-10-22
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  • Hard Surfaces
    Tubadzin Jellyfish

    TILES & CERAMICS Joe Simpson says… enjoy wallpaper wonders in porcelain

    2022-10-20
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  • Natural Stone Memorials
    From the website of The Guardian newspaper on 18 October

    Second marble coffin niche structure collapses in Italy

    2022-10-19
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  • Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental
    One of the new range of Alpha Sentinel face masks

    New range of British-made masks that operatives will want to wear

    2022-10-18
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  • Natural / Engineered Stone Company News
    Roberto Colonetti's marble bust of Mchelangelo's David

    Porcelain superstar goes back to his marble roots for a bust of David

    2022-10-17
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  • Market Intelligence
    Kwasi Kwarteng

    Budget tax cuts in the September ‘fiscal event’ unravel as Chancellor is replaced

    2022-10-14
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  • Natural Stone Memorials
    Press headlines

    Questions of memorial safety continue as Scarborough topples stones

    2022-10-11
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  • Hard Surfaces
    Joe Simpson

    TILES & CERAMICS Joe Simpson says... it’s good to see some science in sustainability

    2022-10-10
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  • Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental
    Thomond Bridge at Limerick City

    £225,000 fines for companies whose health & safety failures led to two men drowning

    2022-10-08
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  • Natural / Engineered Stone Company News
    Hartham Park underground quarry

    Lovell buys the freehold of Hartham Park

    2022-10-07
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  • Natural Stone Memorials
    Scott Taylor

    British stones win top prizes in this year's Memorial Design Award

    2022-10-05
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  • Events
    Marmo+Mac 2022

    Return to Verona: British visitors are back at Marmo+Mac in Italy

    2022-10-04
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  • Hard Surfaces
    Joe Simpson

    Hard Surfaces signs up Joe Simpson for 2023 show in London

    2022-10-04
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  • Legislation / Standards
    Cutting the red tape for more businesses

    Red tape slashed as 'small' company status is extended to those with 500 employees

    2022-10-03
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  • Market Intelligence
    Robert Merry One Million Mentors

    The Merry Month: One Million Mentors

    2022-10-03
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  • Equipment
    Robo Sawjet

    Baca robot saws now represented by KMT Waterjet

    2022-10-02
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  • Events
    Counting House

    Women in Natural Stone (WINS) return to The Counting House

    2022-10-02
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  • Market Intelligence
    Duke of Gloucester Gold Medal

    Nominations invited for the Duke of Gloucester Gold Medal

    2022-10-01
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  • Natural / Engineered Stone Company News
    Iain Kennedy carrying out block evaluation in the Outer Hebrides

    CONSULTANTS: Knightsbridge Stone is a chip off the old Blockstone

    2022-10-01
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Featured Companies

  • D Zambelis

    D Zambelis have been going strong within the stone industry since 1996 and is still expanding.
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  • Global Granite & Trading Co Ltd

    Specialists in High Quality Granite, Marble, Quartz and Sandstone
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  • stoneCIRCLE

    bringing stone to life for over 50 years
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  • LPE

    Leading Production Equipment Ltd

    When you’re only ever going to be satisfied with leading production equipment in your workshop, you know you’ll only ever get it from Leading Production Equipment. The clue is in the name.
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    Supplying the worlds finest flat & bevel and profile edge polishers to the UK. We also supply parts and service all Comandulli machinery.
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  • Tab India

    TAB Surfaces is one of the largest and most innovative natural stone & natural quartz processors in the world.
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    Prodim

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    Leading Production Equipment Ltd

    When you’re only ever going to be satisfied with leading production equipment in your workshop, you know you’ll only ever get it from Leading Production Equipment. The clue is in the name.
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