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7 December 2020 | Natural / Engineered Stone Company News | 2 Comments
It is sad to learn of the death on 1 December of Mrs Eileen Crowe, co-founder with her husband Brian of stone cleaning company Stonehealth Ltd based in Dursley, Gloucestershire. Eileen was a...
4 December 2020 | Natural / Engineered Stone Company News
27 November 2020 | Natural / Engineered Stone Company News
Forest Pennant sandstone company Forest of Dean Stone Firms (FoD) has been integrated into the Lovell Stone Group.Lovell Directors Simon and James Hart have been involved with FoD as minority...
21 November 2020 | Natural / Engineered Stone Company News
Lundhs Real Stone, the company that quarries Blue (and other colours) Pearl granite (Larvikite) from Larvik in Norway, has teamed up with stone company Steinriket and Red Bull ('it gives you...
18 November 2020 | Natural / Engineered Stone Company News
Amir Reske, Managing Director of Caesarstone in the UK, Europe, the Middle East & Africa, talks to NSS about his move into hard surfaces and his introduction to stone fabricators.NSS: You came...
18 November 2020 | Natural / Engineered Stone Company News
Belvedere Black is a new surface in the Ceralsio range from CRL Stone. Ceralsio is a hard wearing ceramic.The new Belvedere Black has marble-inspired patterning and is available in a Natural or...
18 November 2020 | Natural / Engineered Stone Company News
Marshalls, the landscaping products specialist, has repaid the £9.4million it received from the furlough scheme (the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme). It says this is as a result of an...

Managing Director Daniel Wilson: "We are currently operating at full capacity and are delivering orders. The safety of our employees and any contractors on site is of utmost importance to us and we continue to work hard to support them. We have put in place all the necessary measures to allow them to work safely and in a socially distanced manner, in accordance with all public health guidelines. We will, of course, be monitoring the situation closely and will keep you fully informed if there are any changes to our operation."
9 November 2020 | Natural / Engineered Stone Company News
‘We’re good to go’ says Stamford Stone Company as it gets planning permission for a 37-acre extension to Bidwells Clipsham stone quarry and a new 7,000m2 factory. And it is working...
5 November 2020 | Natural / Engineered Stone Company News
A third Volvo L150H loading shovel has been bought by Albion Stone for its Portland limestone operations at the Jordans and Bowers mines on the Dorset island.It will replace an older L150, bought in...
5 November 2020 | Natural / Engineered Stone Company News
Caesarstone introduces Calacatta Maximus, its fifth new design this year.Calacatta Maximus has a white backdrop with broad grey veining and delicately highlighted details in copper and gold.The...
20 October 2020 | Natural / Engineered Stone Company News
Toffolo Stirling says the latest technology allows it to be old fashion where it matters – in personal relationships with customers.Scottish stone specialist Toffolo Stirling uses Alphacam...
19 October 2020 | Natural / Engineered Stone Company News
Nick Williams, Managing Director of Strata, the UK arm of Indian stone company Stone Age Private Ltd until the coronavirus pandemic hit, and before that a Director of Burlington, has started his own...
16 October 2020 | Natural / Engineered Stone Company News
Neo Granite, which last year doubled its production area by extending into a unit adjoining its factory in West Bromwich, Birmingham, has bought two kitchen worktop companies in the South of England....
8 October 2020 | Natural / Engineered Stone Company News | 6 Comments
Cosentino has launched a new formulation of its Silestone quartz in order to reduce its crystalline silica content. In the future all Silestone will be made this way. There has been a lot in the...
23 September 2020 | Natural / Engineered Stone Company News
Solid surfaces company Hi-Macs has added three new colours (Cotton Field, Windy Hill and Highland) to the three existing colours (Santa Ana, Tambora and Gemini) in its Granite collection of the...