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15 September 2020 | Natural / Engineered Stone Company News
Hard landscaping leaders Marshalls published half-year results today (15 September) showing a 25% fall in reveue to the end of June compared with the first half of 2019. However, the company...
12 September 2020 | Natural / Engineered Stone Company News
Plus two new British sandstones and new finishes on Indian sandstones Hard landscaping leader Marshalls has partnered with Tarmac to introduce a range of bedding and jointing...
8 September 2020 | Natural / Engineered Stone Company News
Neolith completes the launch of its new Six-S range with food bank donations for every kilogram sold
Neolith sintered stone has marked the launch of its new ‘Six-S’ range of surfaces with a campaign to give 1kg of food to food banks for every 1kg of the surfaces sold. For the Six-S...
7 September 2020 | Natural / Engineered Stone Company News
Quartz company Caesarstone has entered the global porcelain worktop market with an agreement to purchase a majority share of Indian manufacturer Lioli Ceramica. Caesarstone says the move is a...
4 September 2020 | Natural / Engineered Stone Company News
TV presenter and environmentalist
Ben Fogle has updated his kitchen with Cosentino's Silestone quartz worktops. Ben Fogle is best known for his appearances on BBC, ITV, Channel 5 and...
22 August 2020 | Natural / Engineered Stone Company News
Ranil Jayawardena, who was appointed Minister for International Trade in May and is the MP for North East Hampshire, dropped in on stone specialists stoneCIRCLE this week. Steve Vanhinsbergh is...
7 August 2020 | Natural / Engineered Stone Company News
This is the latest addition to Italian stone supplier Antolini’s Textures+ collection, which has patterns cut into the face of natural stone slabs. This one is called Flexwave, on one of the...
6 August 2020 | Natural / Engineered Stone Company News
When quartz started to really boom as a kitchen worktop at the turn of the millennium nine times out of ten what people choose was black, albeit with mirror chips in it to make it star galaxy. Then...
6 August 2020 | Natural / Engineered Stone Company News
Amastone.com, the e-commerce website specialising in tools and equipment for the stone industry, already receives more orders from the UK than from any market outside Italy. Now it is upping its...

A block of Valentia Slate being sawn with a wire for architectural use. An added emphasis is being put on architectural uses of the slate as the new owner aims to re-cultivate the slate’s historical market in the UK and obtain an Environmental Product Declaration to facilitate its use in green and low carbon buildings throughout Europe.
5 August 2020 | Natural / Engineered Stone Company News
Valentia slate from Ireland was used by Pugin for the floors of the Houses of Parliament when he rebuilt them after a fire in 1834. It has been used for the repair of those floors since 2004. The...
23 July 2020 | Natural / Engineered Stone Company News
From tomorrow (24 July) it becomes compulsory to wear masks in shops (it already was in Scotland). And it is already compulsory to wear them on public transport. The World Health Organisation also...
21 June 2020 | Natural / Engineered Stone Company News
Work has drawn to a close on a year-long project to re-clad with a patented system of Welsh slate a listed Georgian dairy that has been re-purposed for the 21st century.The Grade II* listed Cobham...
5 June 2020 | Natural / Engineered Stone Company News
After two years of surveys, consultations, meetings and discussions, the Bath Stone Group has gained planning permission for a new mine entrance at Hartham Park Bath Stone underground quarry in...
3 June 2020 | Natural / Engineered Stone Company News
The Coronavirus lock-down forcing the closure of Caesarstone’s studio showroom at its headquarters in Enfield, London, did not stop people visiting – but they did it virtually.Jonathan...
2 June 2020 | Natural / Engineered Stone Company News
Pictured is a computer-generated preview of the new ‘Clay International’ showroom being opened in London by Louis Livramento of stone specialist Livra in conjunction with the Italian...