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Amin Taha champions the use of structural stone at the Stone Show

07 May 2025 , by pam.reddish@qm…

Stone Awards / Competitions

Salisbury Cathedral announced as the UK's favourite stone project

07 May 2025 , by pam.reddish@qm…

Toby Barlow receiving his Stone Federation architecture prize from George Clarke and Susannah Streeter

Stone Awards / Competitions

Toby Barlow wins inaugural Stone Federation Student Architect Award

07 May 2025 , by pam.reddish@qm…

A group of CWF students visited Notre Dame for a unique insight into this iconic landmark.

CWF students head to Notre-Dame Cathedral

30 April 2025 , by Clare Howcutt Kelly

Stone Show & Hard Surfaces 2025 news

24 April 2025 , by Clare Howcutt Kelly

Natural / Engineered Stone Company News

Laminam UK appoints new area manager for South East of England

23 April 2025 , by Clare Howcutt Kelly

Editor's Picks

Events

Quarry owners and stonemasons join forces as The Stone Collective

2024-01-22
Legislation / Standards

Australia prohibits use of engineered stone

2023-12-18
Sustainability

Design Museum exhibition focuses on low-carbon building materials

2023-09-01
Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental

HSE podcast discusses dangers of dust in the construction industry

2023-08-16

Legislation / Standards

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

2023-03-07

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Stone Heritage

Wren300 sees 51 Wren churches mark the architect's tercentenary

2023-03-06

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Market Intelligence

Tiles & Ceramics: Joe Simpson says... These are the trends I expect to see at this year's major exhibitions

2023-03-02

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Legislation / Standards

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

2023-02-28

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Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental

Australia moves a step closer to restricting the use of quartz

2023-02-28

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Natural / Engineered Stone Company News

Polycor bids for the rest of French quarry company Rocamat

2023-02-27

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Training

Training: Could you benefit from apprenticeship training schemes?

2023-02-26

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Market Intelligence

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

2023-02-26

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Events

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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Natural / Engineered Stone Company News

Surfaces: Still all white in 2023

2023-02-21

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Events

It’s back! And it’s looking good

2023-02-20

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Stone Heritage

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 Hilti for complete, warranted natural stone rainscreens

2023-02-15

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Market Intelligence

Cracking the Coade

2023-02-15

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Stone Projects

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

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

2023-02-12

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Market Intelligence

STONE IN THE LANDSCAPE: Time to take SuDS seriously

2023-02-12

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Events

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

2023-02-11

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Market Intelligence

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

2023-02-10

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Stone Heritage

Books: Stone Will Answer, by Beatrice Searle

2023-02-09

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Natural / Engineered Stone Company News

Ffestiniog Welsh Slate is back in production

2023-02-08

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Market Intelligence

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 launches three-year support of QEST Scholarships

2023-02-06

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Natural / Engineered Stone Company News

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

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 gets the low down on silica dust

2023-01-24

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Market Intelligence

Have your say as Historic Environment Scotland surveys the stone industry

2023-01-18

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Sustainability

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

Have you got the CSCS card Smart Check app yet?

2023-01-11

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Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental

Stonemason housebound by diseases from dust blames ignorance

2023-01-10

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Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental

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

2023-01-10

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Market Intelligence

Energy costs support reduced but help continues for another year

2023-01-09

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Stone Heritage

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

2023-01-05

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Legislation / Standards

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

2023-01-02

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Market Intelligence

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

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 introduces its SilverKoast Collection

2022-12-20

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Market Intelligence

Wall calendars for 2023

2022-12-19

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Market Intelligence

Brief in counters: David Coster talks with Salvatore Caruso

2022-12-18

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Stone Heritage

HERITAGE: conserving the ruins of a Medieval Bishops’ Palace

2022-12-16

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Market Intelligence

40,000 construction companies default on Covid bounce back loans

2022-12-16

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Market Intelligence

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

2022-12-15

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Market Intelligence

UKCA mark postponed to 2025

2022-12-12

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Stone Heritage

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

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

2022-12-08

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Stone Awards / Competitions

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

New from HSE: Controlling Exposure To Stone Dust

2022-12-03

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Natural / Engineered Stone Company News

Marble designs in MDi exclusively from CRL Stone

2022-12-01

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Training

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

£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

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

2022-11-23

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Natural / Engineered Stone Company News

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

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

2022-11-21

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Stone Heritage

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

2022-11-20

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Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental

Two more awards for Trolex realtime silica dust moniter

2022-11-18

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Stone Awards / Competitions

TV personality architect Charlie Luxton to present Stone Awards

2022-11-18

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Market Intelligence

Autumn Statement completes unravelling of Kwarteng tax cuts

2022-11-18

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Training

Westminster Abbey joins Cathedrals Workshop Fellowship

2022-11-17

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Equipment

Stone Equipment International parts with Emmedue and concentrates on Marmo Meccanica

2022-11-16

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Market Intelligence

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

2022-11-09

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Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental

Warning about dust as testing firm fined

2022-11-03

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Stone Awards / Competitions

Bath Stone Levine Building at Trinity College Oxford receives two awards

2022-11-02

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Stone Heritage

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

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

2022-10-27

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Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental

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 aims for blue CSCS cards and standard contracts

2022-10-26

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Market Intelligence

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

2022-10-24

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Training

Moulton stonemasonry students show their work at the House of Lords

2022-10-22

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Hard Surfaces

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

2022-10-20

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Natural Stone Memorials

Second marble coffin niche structure collapses in Italy

2022-10-19

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Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental

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

2022-10-18

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Natural / Engineered Stone Company News

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

2022-10-17

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Market Intelligence

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

2022-10-14

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Natural Stone Memorials

Questions of memorial safety continue as Scarborough topples stones

2022-10-11

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Hard Surfaces

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

£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

Lovell buys the freehold of Hartham Park

2022-10-07

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Natural Stone Memorials

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

2022-10-05

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Events

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

2022-10-04

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Hard Surfaces

Hard Surfaces signs up Joe Simpson for 2023 show in London

2022-10-04

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Legislation / Standards

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

2022-10-03

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Market Intelligence

The Merry Month: One Million Mentors

2022-10-03

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Equipment

Baca robot saws now represented by KMT Waterjet

2022-10-02

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Events

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

2022-10-02

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Market Intelligence

Nominations invited for the Duke of Gloucester Gold Medal

2022-10-01

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Natural / Engineered Stone Company News

CONSULTANTS: Knightsbridge Stone is a chip off the old Blockstone

2022-10-01

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Natural / Engineered Stone Company News

Northern Powerhouse investment means more jobs at Stone UK

2022-09-27

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Market Intelligence

TILES & CERAMICS Joe Simpson says... Cersaie: The compelling ceramic catwalk

2022-09-24

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Stone Heritage

HERITAGE: It’s not just about history

2022-09-24

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Natural / Engineered Stone Company News

Hours cut but pay stays the same as stone company decides its employees are ‘working too hard’

2022-09-24

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Training

A Qualified Workforce: a new employer network

2022-09-23

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Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental

Partners who failed to control vibration exposure fined when employee gets HAVS

2022-09-21

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Equipment

Marmo+Mac show preview: Developments in stone processing machinery

2022-09-19

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Natural / Engineered Stone Company News

STONEMASONS: AF Jones is sprinting forward to be in for the long run

2022-09-19

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Natural Stone Memorials

Memorials: Face-to-face again at Tradex

2022-09-18

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Market Intelligence

Brief in counters: David Coster talks to Robert Jay

2022-09-18

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