Category: 2021

Radio Stone Update offers another look at the top news in hard surfaces for 2021.

Laminam doubles production at its automated Italian porcelain-panel factory; Caesarstone sets a new record for third-quarter revenues; Cutting Edge Countertops donates more than $14,000 to Habitat for Humanity; more.

Select Interior Concepts goes private and changes its name to Architectural Surfaces Group; Coverings Connected online features Natural Stone Institute President Michael Picco on Nov. 17.

TISE to increase natural-stone exhibitors; online signup starts for 2022 TISE and Coverings.

Marmomac and Cersaie make successful in-person runs in Italy; Cambria, Cosentino settle patent lawsuit over quartz-surface veining; U.S. hard-surface imports take small dip in August; more.

A former TSA-agent-turned-fab-worker is caught defrauding federal workers comp; new natural-stone countertop course from Natural Stone Institute.

A federal appeals court denies an appeal with tariffs on paid quartz-surface samples from India; KBIS opens registration for 2022; and an alabaster/marble mine in Colorado fights the feds to continue.

Outdoor-living areas will have steady growth in professional installs; LATICRETE’s Ed Metcalf gets top NTCA honor; more.

ASI sells engineered-stone division; June U.S. hard-surface imports top $470 million; granite quarry group aligns with Natural Stone Institute; more.

SESA chooses TISE/StonExpo as the main event for fabrication machinery & tooling. Also, a furniture importer apparently runs afoul of Chinese quartz-surface tariff enforcement; and ASI sells its engineered-stone division, including a new Breton®-equipped factory in India

Miami-based Mosaic Companies acquires distributors Walker Zanger and Opustone; Select Interiors Concepts sells off Residential Design Services; Park Industries Offers July 28 Market Trends Seminar.

Tile from Turkey avoids a 25% additional tariff, for now; Triton Stone Group picks up Stoneway Supply LLC; and April hard-surface imports could be sending a signal on the supply pipeline.