Jeff Armantrout, vice president of sales at UGM Surfaces, shares details about the natural stone and engineered surface supplier’s latest showroom in Plymouth, MN.

Artistic Tile recently added Breccia Scoppio to its slab gallery.

Maintenance and care for natural stone and quartz surfacing are always important for fabricators to think about and to educate their acustomers accordingly.

Lapitec is a full-body sintered stone slab that comes in a variety of colors and finishes. It is also an extremely dense product which leads fabricators to wonder, “What are the options for tooling when working with the material?” The tools required for cutting Lapitec has to have some unique characteristics.

Safety should always be at the forefront – whether in the fabrication shop or on the jobsite. Manufacturers continue to develop products that not only make handling slabs and other large stone pieces safer, but also help to increase production and installation efficiency.

Weha Buffalo Bundle Slab Storage Rack design has created a six-point post touch locking system. While other slab rack bases touch the pole in one or two places, the Weha Buffalo Slab Rack base creates six different pressure points on the post.

Under the agreement, Laser Products will use its industry expertise to distribute, develop and support customized applications of the Slabsmith technology for individual countertop fabricators.